3,000 speech ideas and tips

If you give talks or presentations, or if you want to improve your skills in explaining things to others, here is a great resource.

Whether your audience is a crowd or just one person, you will find plenty of ideas and tips at Jim Peterson's "Speech Topics Help, Advice & Ideas"

This website offers much, much more than tips for wedding and graduation speeches.

There are how-to guides, tutorials, topic ideas and other resources.

Many of the ideas and tips can be applied to written communication as well.

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Pauline Wallin, Ph.D.
TeachMeInternet.com

Instead of drilling down through big websites - try this...

Today's tip is one that I usually reserve for my Internet classes.

Have you ever found yourself wading through a large website, clicking tabs and links without much luck finding what you need?

Sometimes the site has its own "site map" or search engine. Even then you may not easily hone in on what you're looking for.

Try this instead. Go to google.com and run a search, using the following syntax:

your search words site:domain

(NOTE: no space before or after the colon)


This tells Google to look for your search words or phrases, but only within the domain (usually a website that ends in .com, .net, etc) that you specify.


Here's an example: Suppose you want to cancel your AOL account. AOL does not make it easy. The cancellation policies and procedures are buried deep within the AOL website.

Try this Google search instead:
cancel account site:aol.com

The above search syntax tells Google to look for the words cancel and account, and to look for these words only within the aol.com domain.


Google site search can be used in a variety of situations:

• Looking for government-sponsored scholarships? Try this Google search:
  scholarships site:.gov
  

• Need a driver for your printer? Search:
  c86 driver site:epson.com
  (Substitute your own printer model and manufacturer website)

• Want to check out the validity of the email you got about boycotting gas stations on May 15? Snopes.com is the place to go, but you have to click several times to find the answer. Instead, try this Google search:
  gas boycott site:snopes.com
  

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Pauline Wallin, Ph.D.
TeachMeInternet.com

Stretch your dollar (or Euro or Pound)

Looking for ways to stretch your dollar (or Euro or Pound)?

Here are some websites that provide money-saving hints, articles and links:

The Dollar Stretcher: The home page is cluttered, but here is a link to the site's index, where you can get an overview of what's there. Browse by topic, search by keyword, or subscribe to their newsletter.

About.com's Frugal Living: This is a portal to dozens of resources for saving money, including articles, links and discussion forums.

Debt-proof Living: This is the website of Mary Hunt, who writes the syndicated newspaper column,"Everyday Cheapskate." In addition to the browsable and searchable free tips and email newsletter, there is a fee-based subscriber service for debt-reducing tools and other features.


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And thanks!

Pauline Wallin, Ph.D.
TeachMeInternet.com