Adaptive Path (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
On Wednesday, December 9 Adaptive Path is honored to host Scott Berkun, the best-selling author of The Myths of Innovation and Making Things Happen, and possibly one of the funniest people you will ever meet. Scott has been a long time friend of Adaptive Path and has spoken at many of our events including MX’09 [...]
McGee's Musings (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Confessions of a Public Speaker, Berkun, Scott Scott Berkun is an ex-software development manager from Microsoft who is in the midst of a transition from manager/geek to author/public speaker. So far, I’ve interacted with Scott in his writer persona and have yet to hear him deliver wearing his speaker hat. Based on Confessions of a [...]
Gumbo (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
That's a bit of old advice when you're giving a speech and nervous about it: imagine the members of the audience wearing nothing but their boxers. Scott Berkun, a former Microsoft executive turned writer and professional public speaker, says it's worse than that. In Confessions of a Public Speaker, he describes an experiment in which heart-rate monitors were strapped to listening students...
Brand Autopsy (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
CONFESSIONS OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER by Scott Berkun gets the Marketing Masterpiece Theatre treatment. If you regularly give presentations, you'll find yourself nodding in agreement with many of the stories Scott tells about presentations gone right and those that went...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... but an accelerometer, two dozen naked women, and the nation of Japan, I had a story to tell. Scott Berkun ( berkun ) Everything you need to know about philosophy in 5 minutes I’m the sad owner of a philosophy degree. I’m convinced i can give people a better education in philosophy (and make them realize how much they already know and love philosophy) in 5 minutes than I got...
