Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
February 15th, 2015
How often are you rendered comatose by a presenter at the front of the room who commits one or more of these completely avoidable offences: 1. Failing to have curated content that would fit into the time allotted? 2. Failing to have considered the interests of the audience in selecting material to present? 3. Failing to […]
read more...Do you Engage Audiences (or Render Them Comatose)?
Improve your Writing
October 11th, 2011
Posting content to a blog may have gotten Julie Powell a book deal that in turn lead to an international best seller and a blockbuster movie (starring Meryl Streep, no less), but updating a personally maintained website with random thoughts isn’t generally perceived as a fast track to academic tenure. So if you’re a scholar […]
read more...To blog or not to blog…
Improve your Writing
December 7th, 2010
Partnering with universities is one of the main strategies Informed Opinions is pursuing to support knowledgeable women in contributing their ideas and analysis to the media. So last summer, I pitched an op ed to the editor of University Affairs magazine, published by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, which reaches close to […]
read more...The Pros and Cons of Timeliness
