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My newest book, Insider Strategies for the Confident Communicator: How to Master Meetings, Presentations, Interviews, and Advocacy is now available.

It’s a follow up to 2020’s Reporters Don’t Hate You: 100+ Amazing Media Relations Strategies . That one helps corporate spokespeople on the front lines every day dealing with reporters who need an AP Style guide for media relations. This is it. Your copy will be dog-eared in no time!

I also authored A+ Strategies for C-suite Communications: Turning Today's Leaders into Tomorrow's Influencers . It benefits communications and government relations experts who counsel their C-suite leaders on strategy. The knowledge demonstrates how they can chart a path toward sustained improvement that help ...more

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	A+ Strategies for C-Suite Communications: Turning Today's Leaders into Tomorrow's Influencers 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Truth About Public Speaking: The Three Keys to Great Presentations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ed Barks wrote a new blog post Getting Handsy, What Not to Write I’ve had a few ideas run across my field of vision lately. Nothing that warrants an entire column, but noteworthy nonetheless.As a result, this post i Read more of this blog post »
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Ed Barks rated a book it was amazing Whistle-Stop Politics: Campaign Trains and the Reporters Who Covered Them by Edward Segal (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The amount of research Edward Segal conducted for “Whistle-stop Politics” is staggering. Engrossing stories from the 1800s to more recent times make for a fascinating read, so make no mistake that his in depth research foretells a dry tome. This is st ...more
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“Engaging in lifelong learning to improve your public speaking skills is far from drudgery. It can lead to a better job, higher profits, more donations, and public policy objectives. That sounds like fun to me.”
― Ed Barks, The Truth About Public Speaking: The Three Keys to Great Presentations

tags: communications, presentation-skills, public-speaking, speeches

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“Capitol Hill testimony represents the most important business meeting you’re ever going to have.”
― Ed Barks

tags: capitol-hill, congress, testimony, witness

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