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		<title>Giving It Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout your freelance career, from time to time, you will be asked to work for free. Trust me on this. You will. Before you consider any such requests, you have to set up some ground rules for yourself. This is my take on the subject.
First, if you undervalue your work, you are telling the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Freelance Speech Writers: Five Tips That Will Speed Up Your Speech Writing Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am always looking for ways to shorten the &#8220;process time&#8221; when working on speeches.  Here are five that I find helpful.

I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am the world&#8217;s worst proofreader when it comes to proofing my own drafts. That&#8217;s where I find someone else reading back my drafts to me aloud, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the short speech assignment&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a prospective client calls and opens with &#8220;we only need a five minute speech&#8221;, often the implication behind the &#8220;only&#8221; is that that I could just bang it off in not much more time than that. And that my invoice would be commensurately small.  Luckily most discerning clients (and to my clients who read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Inauguration Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of the inaugural address of U.S. President Barack Obama, sent in advance of delivery on Jan. 20, 2009:
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory Speech Part 2 or 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Victory Speech Part 1 of 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<title>The apology&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post will be of interest to my Canadian readers, most of whom will now be aware of the fact that last week in the Canadian Parliament, the Prime Minister rose and offered a formal apology for the aboriginal residential school system that had been put in place &#8211; ironically enough in the same chambers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If speeches win presidencies&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then John McCain is toast and Hillary Clinton may end her campaign sounding churlish, self-centered, and yesterday&#8217;s woman.
Speeches are more than the right words on the page.  The ability to engage an audience also depends on the oratorical skills of the speaker to deliver those words with a believable and infectious passion.  That means how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The God Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 04:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the trickier types of speech to write, and one that you should consider carefully before accepting, is the speech given by experts to experts.
It is one thing to have an expert, say  &#8212;  a medical specialist &#8212;  give a status report on the current state of diabetes research &#8212; at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Obama  &#8220;On A More Perfect Union&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Obama talks about race and racism in America.  Will laying down a few home truths garner him more support or less?

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