Wednesday #WELCOME:
Our Community is growing and today we'd like to welcome the newcomers on the ETF Open Space.
Dear 186 , 185 , 184 , 183 , 182 , 181 , 180 , 178 , 177
could you please tell us about yourself, especially:
1. present yourself to the community, who are you, where are you from?
2. tell us about your interests, are you looking for information in one specific area ?
3. maybe you have a question that you would like to address to our expertise community?
Thanks a lot!
100 , thank you for the invtiation and lovely to meet everyone!
I'm Ioana and I help speakers of all levels of experience prepare their talks. I've been involved with TEDxTalks, eHealth conferences, and startup pitches, and I run a community called The Speaker Coaching Diaries (https://www.speakercoachingdiaries.com/) where I share little sneak peeks and backstage stories from my encounters with different speakers. I feel extremely privileged to be able to contribute this way to the work of the ETF!
In addition to speaker coaching, I'm now coordinating the activities of a group of 5 writers who will be reporting on ETF projects and events.
I'm originally Romanian and I've been living in Denmark for the last 2 years. I'm passionate about lifelong learning and I myself am a living example of on-the-job training, so I look very much forward to spreading all the wonderful stories that I will discover through the ETF.
I would love to read a few stories of first public speaking experiences, if some of you would like to share those :)
Dear 180 , thanks a lot for presenting yourself and welcome again to ETF Open Space.
I remember quite well (unfortunately) my first experience of public speaking, I was 23 and I was working for one NGO that was helping refugees and asylum seekers. And I was asked to go to one international seminar to present the NGO,
I was so nervous I was reading nearly 99% of the time, and I remember quite clearly that the impact of my speech on the audience was close to zero (most of the participants were with their laptops doing their stuff). Good old times :)
Now, I'm passing the challenge to 183 who is very experienced lecturer from Georgia, and excellent public speaker, Merab, do you remember your first public speaking experience?
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