See also links and information available through the Toastmasters Wikicity project

Public speaking tips

• Speech Topics Help, Advice and Ideas
  (Free speech topics lists with more than 4,000 persuasive, informative and other speech ideas, speech writing tips, how to guides, tutorials and information on outlining your speech topic for public speaking.)
• Public Speaking Institute (lots of great articles)
• Public Speaking Links (Self Improvement Online)
• Speaker Net Newsletter
• Easy Speech (a software resource for speakers with a free section of Speaker Tips)
• Presentations Magazine
• Presenters University (Resources for presenters, including clip art, audio clips, articles and PowerPoint templates.)

Quotation sources

• Bartleby (An online reference tool that links all the great collections of literature, quotations, etc.)
• Quotations Home Page
• Your Quotation Centre
• Inspiration Peak (Small in quantity but high in quality)
• Bartlett's Quotations
• The Land of Quotes
• Dictionary of Quotations
• The Quotations Archive
• Quotez
• Quotes from Literature
• Success Net quotations
• Aphorisms Galore
• Aspiring to Greatness
• Quotes of the Day
• Motivational Quotes

Resources

Recommended

• Wikipedia (the free encyclopaedia)
• Reference.com (incorporating Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Encyclopedia.com)
• How Stuff Works

Other

• National Library of Australia
• Librarians Internet Index (an index of trusted websites used by librarians)
• The Internet Public Library (an excellent resource)
• Refdesk (the single best source for facts on the net)
• Library Spot (a great overall resource)
• Search Encyclopaedia Britannica online
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Biographies of 25,000 people
• Biograhical Dictionary of 33,000 people
• Project Gutenberg of Australia (Access over 14,000 books that are in the public domain)

Humour

• Jokes (A great Australian site indexing jokes on the web.)
• HumorShack (A well indexed resource of jokes and other comedy sites)
• Humournet (Another large collection of jokes and one-liners)
• Museum of Humour (A very comprehensive index of a wide range of humour websites)

• The Positive Press
• Living Life Fully An extensive collection of inspirational and motivational material

Stories

• Heroic Stories
• This is true

Funny information

• Useless Information
• Today In History
• Any-Day-in-History

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