Archive for June, 2009

How Not To Do A Best Man Toast

Just when we wrote a piece on how to write a best man toast last week website Asylum comes up with a compilation of the worst best man speech videos. This is some really embarrassing stuff and can get really uncomfortable even for those watching the videos. But there’s also a lot to learn from [...]

How To Write A Best Man Toast

If you belong to the majority of the male population you either are really scared as soon as the words best man toast are uttered or you would love to do such a speech but do not know how to write one. First, think about this: a best man toast is an honor and you [...]

Top Ten Tips For Perfect Birthday Speeches

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Birthday celebrations oftentimes call for birthday speeches.  This is the moment when everyone expects to hear a beautiful and well written speech. But often small mistakes ruin not only the speech but also the party atmosphere.
Here are the ten most important tips to consider if you want to write birthday speeches.

Your birthday speech [...]

More Graduation Speech Quotes

If you are a public speaker you probably are also an avid reader. As you read, certain combinations of words on the written page or your computer screen will resonate with you. These phrases and sentences will form some of the quotations you will use in your speech.
We have gotten some very positive feedback since [...]

How To Write Maid Of Honor Speeches

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If you have the honor of being maid of honor your are supposed to give a speech. Even if you are a little worried about the task before you don’t worry. There’s a lot of material that can help you manage your maid of honor speech. Read on and find [...]

Barack Obama’s Cairo Speech Analyzed (With Video)

Barack Obama sure does know how to write a speech. Today he delivered a landmark speech in Cairo on how the United States and Muslims could start into a new relationship. I don’t want to go too much into political details. They don’t belong into a blog like this. Instead I want to focus on [...]