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[juliet]

Today I get to spend the day at a communications training course (intended to help us learn about talking to TV & radio & suchlike). Quite apart from the fact that apparently this includes being filmed & having to *watch yourself* afterwards (*shudders in abject horror*), it will also mean not having any connectivity for the day. Bah. Theoretically I have ssh on the shinytoy, but I couldn't get it to work yesterday. I can read LJ, though :-) (really must check how much this is costing me - I don't know how it fits in with my current payment plan thingy)

Humph. It's all a waste of time *anyway* as there is no way on this earth I am ever going anywhere *near* a radio/TV interview. Oh well, maybe it will transpire to be useful in some other way in the end.

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Humph. It's all a waste of time *anyway* as there is no way on this earth I am ever going anywhere *near* a radio/TV interview. Oh well, maybe it will transpire to be useful in some other way in the end.

I'd've thought it'd be really useful for general interview skills, confidence, doing presentations, that kind of thing. (Mind you I doubt if you need any help with that kind of thing really!) And it's something you can put on your CV if you want to go for a job that requires any kind of talking to people...

Basically my view is that any training is a Good Thing, whatever it's for. 's all experience anyway.

Sympathy about the watching yourself on film though; I hate even hearing my own voice on tape, let alone seeing me on video. Mind you I think most people do, at least a bit... I think it's because we're so not used to seeing ourselves from the outside. It's not so much that it's inherently bad but that it's often so much at odds with our mental image of ourselves. Maybe. If you see what I mean.

[juliet]

It was actually pretty good. It was very specifically aimed at media-type interviews (stuff about identifying 3 key points, thinking about audiences, etc), but thinking about it some bits would be more generalisable. Impressively well-run & so forth, though, & I quite enjoyed it (though was feeling a bit knackered by the end - 10 to 5 with only a 30min break is a bit much!).

Seeing myself on video was highly traumatic, though. Ew. I *know* that voices sound different in your head, & you just aren't used to it, but still ew.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Theoretically I have ssh on the shinytoy, but I couldn't get it to work

Different; I got hold of TopGun ssh (http://www.ai/~iang/TGssh/) and it worked fine.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Beware; it only does SSH 1 and it's fallen into disrepair. It needs someone to take it over and maintain it...

[juliet]

It's TGssh that's not working; however, I have now remembered you mentioning it not doing SSH2 before, which is probably why it can't find the. So, you volunteering to maintain it, then, Paul? :-)