LAUNCH OF SPEAKING PRO CENTRAL

I am excited to be a featured participant in the launch of a great new site: Speaking Pro Central.

This is a community of people (many of us are bloggers) who have come together to collect and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites about speaking and more specifically, speaking professionally.  The goal is to create a place where it's easy to find current and highly relevant content.  And perhaps to stimulate new connections.
 
You can get a sense of the power of the site by visiting the site and clicking a keyword on the left. If, for example, you click on Speaking you find:

• The keywords on the left are ordered in relationship to the current term. So you can see that Audience, Techniques and Practice all relate heavily to Speaking.
• At the top of the page are the most recent posts, announcements and web pages for Speaking.
• Below that you find the top posts according to social signals across the network. The site will become much richer over time as more people join the community and the content base grows.

My blog, Professionally Speaking... is featured on the right. If you click on that, you will find my latest posts at the top of the page and then a section called The Best From Professionally Speaking..., which is based on social signals.

All of this technology and the idea of Speaking Pro Central comes from Tony Karrar. If you have ideas on how to improve the site or want to do something similar, I know Tony would like to hear about it.

This site is such a good example of the philosophy of the blogosphere: link, share, connect with new colleagues. Here are my fellow bloggers who are participating in the launch:

Better Presenting

Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!

Dahle Communication

Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking

Matt Eventoff

Presentation Blog - Presentation Advisors

Pro Humorist

Speak Schmeak

Speaking about Presenting

Successful Speeches Blog

Thoughts On Presenting And Design

Writing Practice Prescription