Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Two Ways to Find Hot Topics For Persuasive Speeches

 If you want to make a good speech or presentation, then you've to find hot issues that can be related or added in your topics for persuasive speeches. This is especially important if you're addressing a group of highly educated or skillful prospects and people. So how do you find hot topics for persuasive speeches? Let me enlighten you.


# 1 Online News Directories


The Internet technology has improved drastically these past few years as it allows information or news to spread around the world instantly and virally. A lot of people are visiting the online news directories to stay alert of current issues that have been plaguing the world. If you relate the latest issues or stories in your speeches, then most probably you can influence your audience or make them get focused and listen to you more. You can find hot topics for persuasive speeches at online news directories such as "CNN" and "BBC". I've personally attended a lot of business speeches and most of the time, I've seen the speaker will relate his speech with something that's been hitting the news headlines. I've to admit that it'll make me to get extra focused to what the speaker has to say next and eventually make me excited and attracted to the topics of the speech.


# 2 Online Forums


This is my all time favourite place to find hot topics for persuasive speeches. There are a lot of online forums where current or hot issues will be discussed by the members. If you're stuck of ideas for your speeches, then you can check out online forums that are related to the niche market or target audience that you're targeting. Just do a small search with your favourite search engine to find relevant forums that you want. Once you've found one, join the forum and read the famous issues that are being discussed to help you out. You can also start a thread or discussion in a particular forum to ask about the members opinion regarding a particular topic. Collect their feedback to get extra ideas for your topics. However you've to be careful in online forum. Different people have different ideas and opinion regarding an issue. So try your best to not to get involved into anything controversial or it might backfire eventually as you might lose your reputation or banned from the forum.


Let's recap what we've learned in this article:


? Current hot issues can be added in your topics for persuasive speeches so that you can influence or persuade your audience better


? 2 of the famous place to find hot topics for persuasive speeches are "online news directories" and "online forums".

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