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	<title>Make Me A Speaker! Blog &#187; General</title>
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		<title>First Post</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello and welcome to the Make Me A Speaker! blog. Since I set up the Make Me A Speaker! wiki last week, it&#8217;s received an overwhelmingly positive response, with some great people signing up to be mentors and even more signing up to get mentored.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello and welcome to the <a href="http://blog.makemeaspeaker.com">Make Me A Speaker! blog</a>. Since I set up the <a href="http://www.makemeaspeaker.com">Make Me A Speaker! wiki</a> last week, it&#8217;s received an overwhelmingly positive response, with some great people signing up to be <a href="http://www.makemeaspeaker.com/index.php?title=GotMentoring">mentors</a> and even more signing up to get <a href="http://www.makemeaspeaker.com/index.php?title=NeedMentoring">mentored</a>.</p>
<p>In order to keep the momentum going, I had the idea of doing some email interviews with those who had signed up as potential mentors. Obviously a wiki (which anyone can edit) didn&#8217;t seem like the best format for that kind of content, hence the birth of this blog.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re interested in interviews with established speakers and testimonials from those up-and-coming aspiring speakers as they get more and more experience, subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MakeMeASpeaker">feed</a> or just keep visiting <img src='http://blog.makemeaspeaker.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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