Speaking Improvement Resources from Mark Ivey

Mark Ivey is someone I heard about quite often after joining Intel in 2000. .

Mark was a nationally acclaimed Intel PC Dad, a dynamic duo along with my newfound broadcast partner (and fellow Chico Wild Cat) Ralph Bond. Ralph continues to be a mentor with his great communications and storytelling skills.

Mark is remarkably gifted communication pro. These days he’s keenly tuned to the role of social media for communications pros. Here’s a recent post Killing Off the Social Media Specialist. I finally got to meet Mark in 2007. Since then, he’s been keeping me in mind whenever he comes across great resources. Like these:

Huge list of the top public speaking blogs
The art and use of powerpoint by Garr Reynolds — a new book out Presentation Zen
Garr writing about Steve Jobs/Macworld, interesting post and comparison of speakers from 07
Good interview with Garr
Bert Decker, well known speech coach
Jerry Weisman another veteran speech coach
Ian Griffin (Mark’s former speechwriting buddy from Sun Micro, now exec comm manager at HP..deeply plugged into the National Speakers Assoc. and speaking activities in the Bay area)
Articles on Public Speaking
A samplings of Mark Ivey’s writings about presentations and speech writing