A while ago I read somewhere about using an Amazon Kindle to hold speaker’s notes. Some good arguments were made: it’s portable, it has a very long battery life, it can be read under different lighting conditions it’s easy to email a PDF to it They’re quite convincing arguments. But does it really work in…
In a previous post we looked at Ummo, an iPhone app that tracks how often you use filler phrases, such as “Umms” and “Uhhs”, “like”, “you know”. LikeSo is another iPhone app with similar functionality, that also tracks common filler words such a “like”, “so”, “actually”, “basically”, “literally” etc. Eliminating filler words and phrases will help…
Public Speaking is not an area where you’d normally think that an iPhone app could help your performance, but perhaps that’s about to change. Ummo is an app that analyses your speech to helpfully point out some of the things that you may not be aware you’re doing that are distracting for an audience. Switch…