Executive Communications and Speechwriter's Weekly

The Executive Communication and Speechwriter's Weekly is a free weekly eNewsletter from Lawrence Ragan Communications, Inc.


Lead Story
Team together to find your speaker’s voice
By Christine Kent
Ask speakers if you’ve captured their style, tone and phrasing.


Executive Communication Roundup
Political debate moderators worse than ever
By Christine Kent
New speechwriter for Obama VP candidate, Bush speechwriter joins CBS News and a new look at the Bush legacy.


ON SPEECHWRITING
Strategic speechwriting in eight hours
By Ron Kirkpatrick
Toyota speechwriters created a system to filter speech requests that increased the strategic value of everything they wrote—in one work day.


GREAT SPEECH ONLINE
Eleanor Roosevelt: United Nations General Assembly
After her well-received speech on human rights in September 1948 in Paris, Roosevelt appears at the United Nations General Assembly. Audio

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Ragan SelectThe words “Asian babes” don’t belong in a speech
By Christine Kent
Second-guessing Jerry Yang’s shareholder speech, the GOP’s lame attempt at courting the young, who really owns speeches, and learning from Warren Harding.

Ragan SelectWhat’s with the age disparity among speechwriters?
By Michael Sebastian
Money, mortgages and kids account for the age difference between political speechwriters and executive communicators.

Ragan SelectWhy your CEO’s blog is fading into oblivion
By Christine Kent
Forrester Research recently put corporate blogs under the microscope, and the diagnosis wasn’t pretty. Video 
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