Stay on Topic - Prepare Your Talking Points
Keep an Eye on the Clock and NEVER Answer "It's in My Book!"
POWER LAUNCH YOUR BOOK: Radio is a powerful strategy for launching your new book or sharing your message. Most people want to know what the return on investment (ROI) for a radio campaign can be for them. Although the outcome differs for each author, radio offers substantial exposure to listeners all over the country and allows you the ability to share your message, expand your topic and promote your book from the convenience of your telephone.
MEDIA TRAINING TIPS TO DELIVER AND OUTSTANDING INTERVIEW INCLUDE:
Never do a show using a cell phone or a headset, both are unreliable! Always turn off your call waiting. Contact your local phone company for instructions on how to do this for an individual call. You can turn it back on again immediately after your interview.
Hosts rarely read your book and mostly stick to the questions they are provided, so don't focus your energy on what the questions will be, focus on giving your best answer to the questions you have provided in your press release.
If you don't understand a question asked, ask for clarification. Don't assume you know what they are asking.
Prepare your talking points. Know the five key message points you would like to discuss in the interview. Write them down on index cards so you can prompt yourself.
You are the expert. Be confident, straightforward and prepared. Media training is a major plus as it gives you the opportunity to practice your materials and receive top quality, professional feedback.
Compliment the host when a good question is asked, "That is an excellent question" or "I'm glad you asked that question." It also helps to draw in your audience.
Use the interviewer's name in conversation. It creates a more intimate conversation that the audience feels privy to. And it makes the interviewer feel good too!
Don't judge an interview by its length. Be prepared for ANY opportunity, they are all potential goldmines.
Sell yourself, not your book or product. If the audience likes you, they WILL buy what you're selling.
Keep an eye on the clock. If your interview is for 10 minutes, start your wrap up at minute 8 such as mentioning where they can buy your book, your website and any other information you would like them to have.
Interview time goes very fast. Before you know it the interview is over. Media training is a major plus and will give you a tremendous advantage as you can learn the techniques and strategies to giving a great interview as well as promoting your interests during the interview. If you say "it's in my book", the interviewer will cut you short very quickly.
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We're Going To Have A Swinging Time_43717
You remember the escapement. The way the power of the clock's released in equal time through the use of things called pallets dipping in and out of a saw toothed wheel?
The clockmaker/repairer will work mainly on three types of escapement. The Verge, Recoil Anchor and Deadbeat. There are others, of course.
The grasshopper, the double three-legged gravity escapement, (used originally in Big Ben, invented by Edmund Dension, later Lord Grimthorpe) and used now in many tower clocks. But for the purposes of this article we'll stick to those escapements first mentioned.
The escape wheel of the Verge escapement is made as a crown, or contrate wheel. The teeth are cut at 90 degrees to the face. An arbor runs over the wheel, on which are set the pallets. One on one side of the wheel, the other 180 degrees to it.
The pendulums on these clocks are very light, and once the clock's underway, the pendulum is made to swing in a huge arc, anything up to 100 degrees. The great Dutch scientist and clockmaker, Christiaan Huygens, realized that such an excessive movement of the pendulum would fail to make the clock's escapement isochronous. There's that awful word again!
The swing was so great, that variations due to power differentials as the mainspring unwound were inevitable.
Following the Verge came the Recoil Anchor escapement. Robert Hooke said that Robert Hooke invented it! This was challenged strongly by a gentleman named William Clement, who did in fact make the first longcase, or grandfather clock. Whoever invented it, there's no dispute that the first clock to use the Anchor escapement was made by Joseph Knibb in about 1670, for Wadham College, Oxford.
Up until then, there was really little point in having minute hands, such could be the time variations, hour to hour. Now, though, minute hands were a necessity because of the vastly more accurate timekeeping given by this new device.
There are two basic reasons for this. Firstly, the arc, or swing, of the pendulum was lessened dramatically from the huge 80 - 100 degrees of the old Verge, down to 4 - 6 degrees. Another great benefit was that instead of the lightweight pendulum of the Verge, a much heavier one could be used. One of the most vital aspects of timekeeping is that the pendulum controls the clock and not the other way round. But then they went one step further.
Not only was a minute hand included, but by extending the arbor upon which the escape wheel was set so that it came right through the front plate of the clock, a seconds hand also could be added. Now, while this did show the seconds, provided the gearing was correct and allowed the escape wheel to revolve once a minute, or even twice a minute, when the clock would beat half-seconds, it wasn't totally satisfactory.
Have you ever looked at a clock with a seconds hand and noticed that as this little hand goes around, it recoils slightly? The geometry of this particular escapement causes the escape wheel to reverse very slightly with each swing of the pendulum? Hence the correct name for this type of escapement. The Recoil Anchor. But improvements were even then on the way.
In about 1675, a Mr. Richard Towneley invented the Deadbeat escapement. The great English clockmaker, George Graham, is often, and erroneously, credited with this, but in fact he was the first one to actually develop and use the system.
The main difference between the two types is that with the Anchor, as the pallets dip in and out of the escape wheel teeth, they give impulse as their sides run down the teeth faces.
The Deadbeat impulse is given by the pallets, with flat faces on the end, angled, running over the teeth and as they drop off, they form a circle with the arc of the escape wheel, thereby ensuring that there's no recoil.
There's still supplementary arc, though - but that's for next time
Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond
The clockmaker/repairer will work mainly on three types of escapement. The Verge, Recoil Anchor and Deadbeat. There are others, of course.
The grasshopper, the double three-legged gravity escapement, (used originally in Big Ben, invented by Edmund Dension, later Lord Grimthorpe) and used now in many tower clocks. But for the purposes of this article we'll stick to those escapements first mentioned.
The escape wheel of the Verge escapement is made as a crown, or contrate wheel. The teeth are cut at 90 degrees to the face. An arbor runs over the wheel, on which are set the pallets. One on one side of the wheel, the other 180 degrees to it.
The pendulums on these clocks are very light, and once the clock's underway, the pendulum is made to swing in a huge arc, anything up to 100 degrees. The great Dutch scientist and clockmaker, Christiaan Huygens, realized that such an excessive movement of the pendulum would fail to make the clock's escapement isochronous. There's that awful word again!
The swing was so great, that variations due to power differentials as the mainspring unwound were inevitable.
Following the Verge came the Recoil Anchor escapement. Robert Hooke said that Robert Hooke invented it! This was challenged strongly by a gentleman named William Clement, who did in fact make the first longcase, or grandfather clock. Whoever invented it, there's no dispute that the first clock to use the Anchor escapement was made by Joseph Knibb in about 1670, for Wadham College, Oxford.
Up until then, there was really little point in having minute hands, such could be the time variations, hour to hour. Now, though, minute hands were a necessity because of the vastly more accurate timekeeping given by this new device.
There are two basic reasons for this. Firstly, the arc, or swing, of the pendulum was lessened dramatically from the huge 80 - 100 degrees of the old Verge, down to 4 - 6 degrees. Another great benefit was that instead of the lightweight pendulum of the Verge, a much heavier one could be used. One of the most vital aspects of timekeeping is that the pendulum controls the clock and not the other way round. But then they went one step further.
Not only was a minute hand included, but by extending the arbor upon which the escape wheel was set so that it came right through the front plate of the clock, a seconds hand also could be added. Now, while this did show the seconds, provided the gearing was correct and allowed the escape wheel to revolve once a minute, or even twice a minute, when the clock would beat half-seconds, it wasn't totally satisfactory.
Have you ever looked at a clock with a seconds hand and noticed that as this little hand goes around, it recoils slightly? The geometry of this particular escapement causes the escape wheel to reverse very slightly with each swing of the pendulum? Hence the correct name for this type of escapement. The Recoil Anchor. But improvements were even then on the way.
In about 1675, a Mr. Richard Towneley invented the Deadbeat escapement. The great English clockmaker, George Graham, is often, and erroneously, credited with this, but in fact he was the first one to actually develop and use the system.
The main difference between the two types is that with the Anchor, as the pallets dip in and out of the escape wheel teeth, they give impulse as their sides run down the teeth faces.
The Deadbeat impulse is given by the pallets, with flat faces on the end, angled, running over the teeth and as they drop off, they form a circle with the arc of the escape wheel, thereby ensuring that there's no recoil.
There's still supplementary arc, though - but that's for next time
Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond
Why Traditional Colleges Will Continue To Survive And Thrive_47487
With online education continuing to explode, some people feel the days of traditional colleges are numbered. One online educator even said that traditional colleges are becoming a place vagabond youths go to congregate.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Below are the reasons I think traditional colleges will continue to survive, thrive, and play big roles in society.
1. Going away to college is like a rite of passage. There is nothing like that feeling of an 18 year old moving away from mom and dad for the first time. It connotes freedom. It is Freedom from being told what to do all the time. Why traditional colleges are more expensive than distance learning colleges, I would not have given up the chance at this freedom for a million dollars.
As a parent, I cannot fathom not letting my children have this same freedom and experience. It is an experience I so much enjoyed. It is only natural that I would want this freedom and experience for my beloved children.
2. Traditional colleges offer social networking that online education cannot. It is said it�s not often what you learn in college that matters, it is who you sit next to in class. Some of the people you sit next to in class will become lifelong friends and business associates.
This became more evident to me during the 2007 NCAA Basketball Championship. If you are a college basketball fan, you know the University of Florida won back to back college basketball championship in 2006 and 2007. This was made possible by a group of young men (Corey Brewer, Taurean Green, Al Horford and Joakim Noah) who became teammates and roommates.
These young men while at the University of Florida became special friends. Through this friendship, they bonded together and agreed to try to achieve something that was only done once (win back to back NCAA College Basketball Championship) since 1973. The other school that did it since 1973 is Duke University. Needless to say, they achieved this goal and will forever go down in the history of college basketball together.
Can online education provide such enabling environment?
I think NOT!
3. Traditional colleges have become icons in the communities they are located in. Some of these communities have come to love and identify with their schools.
Take Gainesville, Florida for example. Can you imagine the city of Gainesville, Florida without the University of Florida? The city of Gainesville will suffer untold economic and social hardships without the students of University of Florida.
4. Old habits die hard. There are still people who believe in the traditional way of learning. These people feel being on campus is the best way to learn. They will continue to support and go to traditional schools to do their learning.
5. There are majors that are not amenable to online learning. Until online schools figure out how to do things like chemistry or physics labs online, these type of majors will continue to be the forte of traditional colleges. Sometimes learning just involves getting your hands dirty.
While not exhaustive by any means, these are some of the reasons traditional colleges will continue to survive now and in the future. It is indeed too early to hold their obituary. In fact, such an obituary may never come in our lifetime.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Below are the reasons I think traditional colleges will continue to survive, thrive, and play big roles in society.
1. Going away to college is like a rite of passage. There is nothing like that feeling of an 18 year old moving away from mom and dad for the first time. It connotes freedom. It is Freedom from being told what to do all the time. Why traditional colleges are more expensive than distance learning colleges, I would not have given up the chance at this freedom for a million dollars.
As a parent, I cannot fathom not letting my children have this same freedom and experience. It is an experience I so much enjoyed. It is only natural that I would want this freedom and experience for my beloved children.
2. Traditional colleges offer social networking that online education cannot. It is said it�s not often what you learn in college that matters, it is who you sit next to in class. Some of the people you sit next to in class will become lifelong friends and business associates.
This became more evident to me during the 2007 NCAA Basketball Championship. If you are a college basketball fan, you know the University of Florida won back to back college basketball championship in 2006 and 2007. This was made possible by a group of young men (Corey Brewer, Taurean Green, Al Horford and Joakim Noah) who became teammates and roommates.
These young men while at the University of Florida became special friends. Through this friendship, they bonded together and agreed to try to achieve something that was only done once (win back to back NCAA College Basketball Championship) since 1973. The other school that did it since 1973 is Duke University. Needless to say, they achieved this goal and will forever go down in the history of college basketball together.
Can online education provide such enabling environment?
I think NOT!
3. Traditional colleges have become icons in the communities they are located in. Some of these communities have come to love and identify with their schools.
Take Gainesville, Florida for example. Can you imagine the city of Gainesville, Florida without the University of Florida? The city of Gainesville will suffer untold economic and social hardships without the students of University of Florida.
4. Old habits die hard. There are still people who believe in the traditional way of learning. These people feel being on campus is the best way to learn. They will continue to support and go to traditional schools to do their learning.
5. There are majors that are not amenable to online learning. Until online schools figure out how to do things like chemistry or physics labs online, these type of majors will continue to be the forte of traditional colleges. Sometimes learning just involves getting your hands dirty.
While not exhaustive by any means, these are some of the reasons traditional colleges will continue to survive now and in the future. It is indeed too early to hold their obituary. In fact, such an obituary may never come in our lifetime.
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