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ShareShare your experience, your knowledge and ideas with your peersFree for All?
by Maria Carlton in Featured Articles, on Sep 30, 2011
This question was posed to members and answers collected for a column in the NSA Speaker Magazine
Ennoble your English
by Elizabeth Noble in Added Inspiration, on Sep 30, 2011
How to speak and write better english
How You Can Grow Your Business with QR Codes
by Jeff Korhan in Marketing, on Sep 30, 2011
What are QR codes and how can they help your business?
Read more about: How You Can Grow Your Business with QR Codes GSF NewsBrief 1st October 2011
by Maria Carlton in News & Newsletters, on Sep 30, 2011
Official Newsletter of the Global Speakers Network. Dan Poynter, Editor.
Membership Site or Password Access?
by Gihan Perera in Products, on Sep 26, 2011
Is it better to have a simple password for your site, or a fully-fledged membership site?
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“You developed a very powerful technique to increase audience engagement. Other speakers are impressed with your growth and want to know how you do it. Should you share your technique freely or charge for it?”
After completing an editing project for some authors whose mother tongue is not English, I summarized their common errors. I believe these notes will help those in the GSF. English has abundant infuriating and illogical rules! Knowing them does simplify communication and we must keep our communication simple in our globalized world. Many anglophones, even professional speakers, make some of the mistakes I will explain (and for them I wrote Winners Speak Globish). Bad English can be heard every day on the TV and radio, and I read these kind of errors frequently—even in the New York Times.
Quick Response codes (QR codes) and other two-dimensional codes are expected to achieve widespread use this year – and for good reason. Consumers want immediate access to what’s relevant and QR codes are being used to make that possible.
In this issue - Alan Stevens on the ‘Double close’, reviews on the GSA convention, some great airline questions and answers, and an updated calendar of events for the coming two years. Grab a cuppa and relax over it while you read the latests news and reviews compiled by Dan Poynter, CSP.
Many speakers provide some sort of password-protected access to their Web site, so they can offer additional resources to audiences, clients and members. Some also think about expanding this to a full membership site. Which of these is better for your business? 
Do you ever want to start something new, then don’t? Have you ever said yes to an appointment or a speaking assignment only to cancel later? Have you ever promised yourself that you would not engage in a bad habit and found yourself doing it even more?
