Lecturers Series: Sound Bites you can use
State your case in 30 seconds, or less: Sound Bites you can use
Saturday, May 19 at 11 am, CFI Tampa
Join us for our monthly Lecturers Series, in May featuring Meigs Glidewell.
Sound Bites for Humanists, Skeptics, and Atheists
Shopping? Bring your money and credit card. Swimming? Bring your suit and towel. Socializing? Bring your sound bites. So when someone asks "What is a Humanist/Skeptic/Atheist?" you have concise, easy to understand sound bites -- five to thirty seconds -- to supply the answer.
Meigs will give us some ready-made sound bites to answer such questions (and please bring your own, too, to add to the collection!), and she will present some rhetorical techniques that help you fashion brief, non-confrontation responses about religion and public policy. Meigs’ presentation will be about 30 minutes, with another 20 or 30 minutes for Q&A.
Meigs Glidewell, our presenter, has spent the last thirty years inventing, learning, and practicing the information she is going to give us this morning. How has she done that?
¨ As a professional editor, Meigs has edited hundreds of books for the computer industry, as well as dozens or books and articles written by friends and family.
¨ As a professional writer, Meigs has written more than 60 books for the computer industry.
¨ As a cartoonist, Meigs has drawn cartoons for Computer World, Popular Electronics, and many other magazines.
¨ As a comedian, Meigs has written jokes for Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller, and she performed standup comedy in Boston area clubs for several years.
¨ As a member of Toastmasters since 1981, Meigs has evaluated hundreds of speeches given by both amateur and professional speakers.
