Re: Re[2]: Presentations (long post -- but no Mom or PC)

[Aahz <aahz -at- NETCOM -dot- COM>]

In article <9410227855 -dot- AA785553179 -at- cc -dot- chiron -dot- com>,
doug montalbano  <doug_montalbano -at- cc -dot- chiron -dot- com> wrote:

>     As for how to give presentations. ...  I'm a shy guy.  I grew up
>     hard of hearing (and I'm still extremely so), this means socially I
>     was a fish out of water.  I mention this only as a way of
>     presenting credentials, I guess, when I say just about anyone can
>     do it.  What helped me was practice.

I'm also hearing-impaired.  {Yes, for those of you paying attention, I
hear well enough to do phone-based tech support.}  What helped me more
than anything else was the six years I spent in Toastmasters.

Toastmasters is an international organization that uses peer critique to
improve your public speaking skills.  They teach you how to do prepared
speeches and improv speeches.

I was lucky to run into Toastmasters in my mid-teens; to the extent that
I'm no longer an obnoxious, socially-maladjusted twerp, Toastmasters is
responsible.  ;-)
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