How to Twitter?

Want to know how Guy Kawasaki Tweets? http://bit.ly/MKxyB As usual he has a unique point of view. I definitely agree with his repeat tweet strategy.

Free TeleSeminar – Building Brand on a Budget

I will be interviewed as part of a free teleseminar, “Build a Money Making Brand on a Budget”.

What I learned from the Story Slam

This past weekend I went to my first story slam. I was laughing the entire night. What great fun.  But I also learned quite a good deal about effective story telling.

While I was listening to the stories, I kept thinking about what Ira Glass says are the three most important elements of story telling.  He says, that story telling should include a series of actions.

Top 10 Communication Skills?

Recently I read an article on BNET by Steve Tobak that talked about how to be a good manager.  Steve mentions the importance of being adept at five things: finance, selling, presenting, negotiating, and business communications.

I thought his grouping was odd.

How To Build a Powerful Online Presence

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Interviewing Skills Book Available Soon

I’ve been very busy this summer!  You can’t tell by the postings because there haven’t been any!! Why?  Because I’ve spent a good portion of my time writing THE MOST comprehensive learning package on interviewing skills.  I’m very excited about this.

The Public Speaker’s Guide to Ace Your Interview, a short audio book from Macmillan will be out in October 2009.

How to Handle the Difficult Media Questions

Learn how to answer difficult or trick media questions like loaded, leading, speculative, naive, chummy, jargonistic, and goodbye questions. Listen to an interview of publicist Helen Coronato by Lisa B. Marshall

Twitter Policy! I’ve been waiting for this.

I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with something like this.  An official “Twitter policy”.  Well, it’s not exactly that, but it is a policy about disseminating information to “anonymous third parties”.

I copied the policy below.  I suspect others will be showing up very soon, if they haven’t already.

Here it is.

Marshall Law for Conference Calls

This week on the Public Speaker I talk about tips for improving your conference calls.  You can listen to this fun, free, episode here or if you prefer you can read a quick summary below. After the summary I cover a few controversial points…to mute or not to mute, then to chat or not to chat.

You might be surprised by what I have to say…

First and foremost a conference call is a MEETING.

Death by Meetings?

How to Run an Effective and Productive Meeting

This week on the Public Speaker I talk about how to plan and deliver effective and productive business meetings.  Here’s a quick summary, but you can listen to the episode here. (It’s less than 10 minutes.)

Know and state the purpose of your meeting.  Meetings are good for coming to resolution.

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