SLIG Spring Virtual 2024: You’re Invited: Public Speaking from Concept to Delivery

Are you ready to become a genealogical speaker? Maybe try your hand (your voice?) at presenting a case study at a genealogy conference? Or may teach a webinar? Or offer a live workshop? This course will help you begin as a genealogical speaker. And if you have already started speaking and presenting, this course will assist you in honing your speaking skills.

You’re Invited: Public Speaking from Concept to Delivery, coordinated by D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS, FUGA, will help you transform an initial concept into a full-fledged presentation delivered in front of an audience. It is also ideal for existing speakers seeking to brush up on their skills and expand their portfolios. All can explore how public speaking might align with their aspirations.

This is an intensive, interactive course that explores many key components of public speaking for genealogists within the general framework of understanding the business of speaking, knowing your audience, developing your presentation, and delivering your presentation.

Other instructors:

• Annette Burke Lyttle, MA
• Angela Packer McGhie, CG, FUGA
• Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL

You’re Invited: Public Speaking from Concept to Delivery will meet online on Thursdays, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm MT, February 15 through April 25, 2024.

See the SLIG Spring Virtual 2024 Courses webpage for more information, including updates.

In 2020, Celebrate 25 Years with SLIG!

In January 2020, the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) is celebrating 25 years -- its silver anniversary -- of bringing quality instruction to students to elevate their genealogical education to new heights.

SLIG will be held starting Sunday, January 12th, and concluding with a banquet on Friday, January 17th. The following fifteen courses are available:

• Course 1: Settlers in the New World and Immigrants to a New Nation: Colonial Times to 1900
• Course 2: Guide to Treasures Found in Federal Records
• Course 3: Early US Church Records
• Course 4: Advanced Research Tools: Land Records
• Course 5: Corpus Juris: Advanced Legal Concepts for Genealogy
• Course 6: Virginia from the Colonial Period to the Civil War: Her Records, Her People, Her Laws
• Course 7: Maryland: Researching in the Old Line State
• Course 8: Chinese Ancestry: Research Methods and Sources
• Course 9: Advanced Hispanic Research
• Course 10: Introduction to Genetic Genealogy
• Course 11: Meeting Standards Using DNA Evidence--Research Strategies
• Course 12: Researching Like a Professional
• Course 13: Applying Standards to Appraise Genealogical Work
• Course 14: Advanced Genealogical Methods
• Course 15: Technical Writing for Genealogists 

The Academy will be held the following week, January 19th to the 24th, and the following seven courses are available:

• Academy Course 1: The Art of Writing Client Reports
• Academy Course 2: You're Invited: Public Speaking from Concept to Delivery
• Academy Course 3: Building and Nurturing a Successful Genealogy Business
• Academy Course 4: DNA for the 21st-Century Professional
• Academy Course 5: Fundamentals of Forensic Genealogy
• Academy Course 6: Writing and Documenting for Peer Review
• Academy Course 7: Project Management Essentials for the Professional Genealogist

Registration for SLIG will open at 9:00 am MDT on Saturday, July 13th, with registration for the Academy opening at 2:00 pm MDT.

To facilitate quick check-out with your course, special events are added to
your registration separately.

Lodging reservations also open on July 13th.

You Are Invited ... to Speak Publicly!

The ability to transform an initial concept to a full-fledged presentation delivered in front of an audience might seem like a daunting adventure for many professionals. This interactive course is ideal for existing speakers seeking to brush up on their skills and expand their portfolios and anyone seeking to explore how public speaking might align with their aspirations.

D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS and his team of instructors, including:

• Angie Bush, MS
• Angela Packer McGhie, CG
• Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL

will provide an intensive week explores key components of public speaking for genealogists:

• Business of speaking,
• Marketing techniques,
• Development, and
• Delivery

Students will also have the opportunity to present two “mini-sessions” to solicit feedback and advice from fellow students and course instructors.

A variety of speaking opportunities will be discussed, including traditional one-hour sessions, seminars, workshops, webinars, institute courses, public programming, continued education courses, and national and regional conferences.

This course requires active interaction and participation. Students registering for the course will be asked to prepare two 10-15-minute presentations for interactive sessions during the course. Presentations will relate to topics agreed upon in advance between the student and the course coordinator.

Sessions include hands-on activities, students should bring a laptop computer with Word, PowerPoint and/or Keynote installed. Optional homework assignments will include work on developing lecture ideas and general presentation preparations.

For more information, go here.