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Speaker Academy #8: My way’s not the only way, but speaking skills matter. 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
So far this series hasn’t looked at specific speaking methods, but it will. This short entry touches on that, and one other point. The other point is that my approach is not the only way to get there...
Speaker Academy #7: “Building a career as a public patient” (March 2011) 25 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
This is the latest in the Speaker Academy series, which started with this post seven weeks ago. It’s been much delayed by family and summer – all good! Before I resume here’s a blast from the past. Tu...
Cheeseburger in Paradise … Lost 20 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
Parrothead specimen. Photo: ConchTV.com Regular readers know that in May, just before giving a dinner speech, I learned that my younger brother Steve had died that day. I blogged about how I’d hardly...
Partnering WITH Patients: the IOM gets it right! (And I have a suggestion.) 17 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
I often compare the “listen to patients” movement to other social movements from my delightfully long life. :-) One of the folk songs of my adolescent years was Bob Dylan’s “The times, they are a-chan...
Fins to the left: Parrothead advice needed! 13 Aug 2013 | 07:32 am
I’m goin’ to a Jimmy Buffett show, and I need help stat! Click image or here for an 8 minute video of live performances of “Fins” and “Son of a son of a sailor”: Yeah, that's a Fins license plate fr...
Two new radio appearances! 9 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Introducing Alicia Staley @Stales as a sometime writer here! Dave will make two appearances on the radio today and tomorrow, with podcast recordings online afterward. Listen in as Dave talks about so...
Speaker Academy #6: What could be said that would make any difference? 3 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
It took a month to get through the first five posts in this series, all based on the notes Randi Redmond Oster took from one thirty minute phone call. THAT’s getting value out of a conversation. And ...
Speaker Academy #5: Knock it out of the park 2 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Kent Bottles MD (from ConventionConnection.com) If you’re new to this series of advice to speakers, read the initial post, and it’ll help if you follow the chain. It’s been three weeks since this se...
New price policy: “Pay me with action” 1 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Earlier this week, in A turning point for patient voices and Prices must have integrity, I laid out my thinking: a professional price policy must make sense and the rules must be real – consistently e...
Prices must have integrity 31 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Yesterday in A turning point for patient voices I said that the market for patient voices is maturing, leading to a need for two new initiatives: Mentoring new patient speakers … via my Speaker Acade...
