Speeches

How to get presidential communication tools — for free!

August 20, 2011

Use a free telepromter to speak as well as the President.

If you do a lot of speaking and would like to do it flawlessly, you might take a leaf from President Obama’s play book and use a teleprompter. This one is free and is as close as your computer.

CuePrompter.com is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter and no extra software is needed. You can use it while you’re recording a video on your computer so [...]

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Do these seven things to write a great speech, says Michelle Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s speechwriter

April 26, 2009

Facts are important, but to really move an audience you should include a human story in every speech, said Megan Rooney, a speechwriter for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Previously, she was the speechwriter for Michelle Obama for the final stretch of the Obama for America campaign.

Rooney spoke at the Virginia Press Women conference in Fredericksburg on Saturday, revealing an insider’s view of working as one of only a few women speechwriters for top-level Beltway officials. She spent five [...]

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