Scott Berkun

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• mpg - October 13, 2009 at 8:31 am #

• Nice, looks like all of chapters two and three.

  Being the obsessive sort that I am, though, I’m going to feel very guilty about having skipped past chapter one and gone straight into chapter two.

  Could you give us a one or two sentence hint of what happened in the first chapter?

  -mpg

  
  

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• Juliet | Freelancewise - October 14, 2009 at 5:16 am #

• Hi

  Looks comprehensive. When one truly thinks about it, it seems a little odd to be afraid of public speaking. I am certainly not fond of it – can’t say I would rather die though ;)

  I once saw an interview with Madonna and, like Bono, she also said how nervous she is on the day of a concert. Apparently she can’t eat more than half a bagel for breakfast because of nerves.

  Juliet

  
  

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• Scott Berkun - October 14, 2009 at 9:45 am #

• mpg: Chapter one is titled “I can’t see you naked” and starts with a story about me being on an airplane trying not to get into trouble with the person sitting next to me.

  
  

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• mpg - October 16, 2009 at 9:41 am #

• ( If we find typos in the posted chapters (I’ve found a few already), do you want to know about them? Or are they from an earlier pre-publication version? )

  -mpg

  
  

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• Scott Berkun - October 16, 2009 at 10:30 am #

• Thanks Mpg – this sample version was from a pre-copyedit prerelease, so none of them are in the book.

  I’m checking with O’Reilly to get the sample chapters updated, and I’ll follow up here.

  
  

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• Carol Worthy - December 18, 2009 at 4:14 am #

• I’m about halfway through the book…Gave my niece a copy for Christmas. (She’s in college and hates having to give presentations.) And I know why speakers use boring titles.

  If the title of a presentation is sexy, clever or funny, it implies that your talk will be sexy, clever or funny. Rather than having to try to live up to the preview – we all know how disappointed we are when the movie preview shows ALL of the good scenes and the rest of the movie is a bust – speakers use a boring title, hoping that the audience will then be pleasantly surprised when their talk is sexy, clever or funny. If the audience doesn’t…Well, what did you expect with a title like Boring 101?

  
  

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• steve Backman - February 15, 2010 at 9:28 am #

• good stuff, fun and most useful, and I took the hint and blogged it:

  http://www.idealware.org/blog/2010/02/scott-berkun-on-public-speaking.html

  
  

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