Helpful Links

Great Presentations:

• How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek (TED.com)
• 9 great TED talks about talking
• The secret structure of great talks. - Nancy Duarte (on TED.com)
• Life After Death by PowerPoint - Don McMillan (A comedy full of truth.)
• Speak with Conviction! - Taylor Mali
• Uptalk in Public Speaking - Allison Shapira
• 3 ways to speak English - Jamila Lyiscott
• Random Body Motion - Comedian, Mitch Hedberg

Death by PowerPoint:

• 5 shocking design mistakes you need to avoid! (Click for the real title)
• NYTimes: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
• How to stop annoying audiences with bad PowerPoint
• No excuse for tedium: Advice on giving technical presentations
• Wired Magazine: PowerPoint is Evil
• PowerPoint presentations - 8 common mistakes
• The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
• Bill Gates and visual complexity
• Let's clear something up!
• A good presenter is like a good quarterback

Speakers' Links:

• Toastmaster's International
• National Speakers Association
• Patricia Fripp
• InFocus Presenters University
• The Barbershop Bookstore
• Presentations.com
• Arch Lustberg
• Lenny's Speaking Tips
• The Self-Appointed Grammar Police!
• Communication Quotes

Presentation Skills:

• Presentation Helper (Great resources for presenters!)
• Presentation Preparation
• Presenting under fire: Tips on keeping your cool
• Albert Mehrabian - what matters MOST (in some types of communication).

Writing Skills:

• TEN Words You Need to STOP Misspelling
• ONE Word You Need to STOP misusing, literally.
• Grammar Girl
• Ten Rules for Writing Numbers and Numerals
• Writing Effective Emails
• Punctuation Marks
• Common Errors in English
• English Non-Errors
• 100 most often misspelled words English Non-Errors
• Top 12 Simpsons-created words - Craptacular to Embiggen
• How The Power Of Words Can Change Everything - (VIDEO)

Accent / Pronunciation / Articulation

• Sharlene Leurig - Water Expert at CERES
• Ann Cook's American Accent site
• ESL Cyber Listening Lab (great audio clips!)
• The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Webster's Dictionary Articulators
• The production of Speech Sounds Articulation Disorders
• Words with "y" as a vowel (other than crazy, hazy, nasty, and tasty)
• The LINGUIST List
• North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
• 21 Accents by Amy Walker
• 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English
• Berlitz Sinking Ship - why language training is important!
• Pregnant Pauses (Pausing can be very effective).
• Varm It - what mispronunciation can lead to
• Aye Can - Listen to Scots - Scottish Census 2011 - what mispronunciation can lead to

Language:

• 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think - TED Blog

Books/Media:

• NPR Interview with the author of "A Little Book of Language," about language acquisition in the new age of technology.
• The Joy of Lex - An Amazing and Amusing Z to A and A to Z of Words
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
• Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It. (an amusing parody of the book above)

• AR sound
• ER sound
• Long E sound
• TH sound
• R sound

Culture:

High/Low Context cultures