Dig To Find Your Speech Topics

Fourty Sources for Ideas and Information

When thinking of speech topics think of Rock Worms and Rock Mites. What do these slimy critters have to do with giving a speech? Finding fish food for fishing and brain food for an audience such as a speech topic can both be accomplished by digging.

In my youth, bait for fishing could be obtained by picking it from a bin and buying it or digging and looking for the perfect bait. In the Colorado Rockies, rock worms were the meal of choice of many of my future catches.

It turns out on moving to Far Rockaway, NY they have a bug that lives in the water under rocks too. Rock mites made great bait as well.

To find the bait or fodder for the fish, I had to turn over some rocks. They always worked best. I had a theory as to why they worked better than a night crawler. They were closer to the natural food the fish ate.

The topics you search for will have a greater chance of being timely and have a greater appeal if you find it in the soil where the soul and spirit of your audience resides.

Like the bait store, there are numerous sites with lists of speech topics providing fodder for persuasive, informational, motivational and inspirational speeches.

Where to Look for Speech Topics

Why not turn over a few rocks to find topics to create a speech that will hit home right now and that the audience that will be connected with. I found over 40 places you can search for speech topics.

You can find the audience next door to where ever you are and the topics right down the street.

• What’s the local buzz?

• What’s the local interest?

• What’s a hot topic?

The Persuasive Topic For Speeches and the start of the Persuasive Speech Splork Topics thread.

Persuasive Speech has the first of three splork speech topics lists.

Informative Speech Splork Topics has the second of three lists of splork speech topics.

More Speech Splork Topics has the third of three lists of splork public speaking topics.

Controversial Speech-Topics are always a great way to activate the minds of an audience. They need to be tactful, respectful, and in line with unwritten social laws. Do you know what would be an appropriate controversial topics and what would not?

Good Speech-Topics can be found in the news and the Market place.

Market Theories and how markets work make great subjects for business oriented and interested audiences.

Hospice a topic full of misunderstanding and myth. Enlighten the audience and help them when they face a difficult decision.

Death is a great topic to bring to life in a speech.

If you want fresh, live and squirming subject matter, I have a list of places to start turning over rocks to find the topic for your next speech.

There is a bonus to doing this. You will find fodder for future speeches in the research you do now. So start a file. Organize and manage the data you collect. But wait there is more.

These topics often come with built in research too. Think about it, a speech topic and at the same time the topic research. This is because the related topic information is usually connected at the hips to the topic idea. You can find these at your nearest internet browser.

Speech-topics-help.com lives up to its name with 1,250+ topics for public speaking. In addition to a comprehensive list of topics you will find many 'how to' principles of the elements needed to help create a great speech.

True to Life Stories

Speechmastery involves story telling mastery. You can create fiction. True life stories will have a more powerful effect on your audience. This list is ripe with potential stories backed up with newspaper articles or names and dates that can be confirmed.

To get these stories you need to turn over rocks, you need to do some digging. Keep looking and you will improve your effectiveness as you develop fresh speech ideas.

This list of 40 places to find current and relevant topics in most cases also provides a portion of the research for your next speech topic. In other cases it may expose you to quotes or comments from real people. The advantage of this list, it is a living breathing list with current issues and topics. These are topics that are affecting people right now.

They are divided into three different places to turn over the rocks to search under.

Electronic Speech Topics includes the internet, the Blogsphere, Forums, Radio and Television.

Topics in Print include newspaper, magazines, obituaries, billboards, news letters, even weather reports.

In Personal Topic Finder could take you from the barber shop to the cemetery. Where ever you find people. Listening and observation skills are essential to find a topic this way. Look at numerous places to find topics including one of the best, a nursing home.

These three places will deliver 40 places to dig and more than enough public speaking topics and the start you on your research for the body of your speech.

The 41st. Want more? Want some tried and proven topics? Check out my friend Maureen at Best Speech Topics for more subjects.

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