you’ll communicate the main insights and key takeaways from a business-related blog

Description: In a 5-6 minute speech, you’ll communicate the main insights and key takeaways from a business-related blog you’ve spent time reading, interpreting and applying to.your life.

Guidelines:

• Your speech must be organized and reflect your submitted outline as closely as possible
• You should include the following details in a concise manner:
  • Author information and brief bio
  • Main purpose of the blog and recurring themes
  • Most influential insights
  • Applications to your own life/career
  • Pitch as to why others should read the blog, including statements about who specifically should read it
• You must justify your reasons for sharing these specific things – that means you should tie the speech together with a larger statement about what the blog is about and it’s practicality/insightfulness
• Your delivery should be consistent with your personal brand
• Your slideshow should be:
  • Be easy to read, polished and precise
  • Use pictures with good resolution and limit text to single sentence bullet points
  • Have a clear color scheme
  • Use a simple Font scheme
  • Stylistically reflect your tastes and personality
  • Inside at least 5 direct quotes worked into the speech in a creative effective manner, citing date of post, post title and permalink URL

Deductions:

You’ll be docked points if you:

• Don’t submit an outline that adheres to the guidelines discussed in class in a clean, professional way
• You do the bare minimum and don’t design your speech in a personalized, creative way that demonstrates your personal brand and proficiency regarding the blog
• Leave out any details specified above
• Show lack of commitment in your delivery

preview of the answer..

• I have a confession to make. It is about guilty pleasures.

• We all have those right?

• While I am sure mine are many (the Kardashians is up there on the list by the way), there is one that I am going to share with you today.

• You may judge me for this, as I can tell from the look in your eyes, but I am going to stay positive.

• I have been spending a lot of time binge-reading this business blog called Gene Marks…