Carpe Diem

We’re in a fascinating age of conversation.

And how public personas form – intentionally or not, especially for professional women – continues to fascinate this particular blogger.

Here at the Live Your Talk blog, the social web and tenets of public speech come together.

Those two environments make the lens at Live Your Talk, through which public personas are explored.

How do we define, develop, and articulate our public persona in these environments?
…through online video, podcasts, social networks and onstage through public speech scenarios?

Whether onstage or online, are we exemplifying what we want clients, partners, constituents, and communities to recognize? to relate to?

It’s all explored here.

Will you join in?

The arc of engagement is a unique mix of humanity and tech these days.
And how we express ourselves has even greater ability to make our respective businesses or organizations or missions distinct.

  • What works? Why?
  • What’s an awesome public speech look like?
  • What online video or audio content makes an impact?
  • What engages, entertains, or comes across as most authentic?

It’s all apart of that arc of engagement (and perfection isn’t the end game).
It’s not about being perfect on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Posterous, Youtube, etc. And when relating to a live audience through public speech, whatever the scenario – keynotes, panelists, moderators, advocates – it’s not about perfection either.

It’s more about looking at our most original, clear, articulate self that’s found in confident conversations – and being just that when giving a public speech or relating on the social web.

There’s that old adage out there: “We become what we practice most.”
So no matter what our professional missions, if we practice our confidence online and off – if we articulate it in such an awesome way - what could happen?  Could we further clarify, rally, laugh, heal, profit, engage, emerge, inspire, unite?  

That’s what this blog is about.

Bio: Jill Foster, Founder, Live Your Talk

Jill Foster books outside Cited by ForbesWoman as one of 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter, Jill Foster’s work has been in conversation in The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Guardian UK, Washingtonian Magazine, and a range of media outlets. As principal of her business Live Your Talk, she teaches creatives, community builders, and entrepreneurs to be distinct communicators online through social media and offline through public speech. Jill has a particular expertise with women in leadership and technology communities and works in the Washington, DC area. A social tech enthusiast, she co-founded DC Media Makers, a peer learning community that teaches digital technology. She is the founding editor of the blog community Women Grow Business – a top ranked blog on social media and marketing. In 2009, Jill won the Apps for Democracy Social Citizen Award for a co-produced project on how technology could help Washington, DC neighborhoods. And during the 2008 presidential election, she fulfilled a lifelong dream by serving as a “Big Tent” credentialed blogger for the Democratic National Convention.

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