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"The techniques I've listed are effective, but here's the thing: No list you find on the internet is going to magically make you more confident. No list is going to take action and grant you instant CSS skills, or give you extra money, or grow your savings account, or make you a better writer. In order for these techniques to be effective, you have to act on them. You have to pick one or two and practice them. Then move on to another pair and practice those." This is an interesting article that contains a lot of helpful tips and sources in how  attack every aspect of the building confidence process.

A communication student provides tips in how to combat speech anxiety by breathing, having a conversational tone during the speech and to how keep (or at least simulate) eye contact. 

I added this again to correct the website. I found this good enough to make sure that it can be found easily for you. The Flinch: Julien Smith: Amazon.com: Kindle Store This book is a really good tool for helping you embrace your flinch. Think about the first time of the season to take a swim in the pool or even better the lake. You know the water is going to be cold but you really want to jump in and have some fun, so you take a deep breath and dive in head first so that you're not trying to hold yourself up out of the water. You embrace it. That's what I've learned with giving a speech. I realized I have information worth sharing so I take a deep breath and dive in.

Deborah Grayson Riegel provides some insights about public speaking anxiety and how to overcome it with some simple and powerful steps like: breathing, renaming our emotions from scared to excited, among others. 

This article talks about how your speech doesn't have to be perfect to be successfl. Give the audience something of value and you will be successful.

It is really a good article. I also liked the the point, "When You Speak in Public, Nothing "Bad" Can Ever Happen!'". So, let go your Public Speaking apprehension and try your best.

Sometimes, knowing that you SOUND confident is all you need to start actually FEELING confident. Good concrete tips, including one of my favorites about avoiding "uptalking."

I practiced speaking at the optimum pace after my first speech, and I performed well and sounded confident in my next speeches.

This article explains that the fear of public speaking of most people is going to give you the edge in front them if you learn to cope with the anxiety.

This page explains how we make things worse by trying not to feel anxious and gives some tips for managing stage fright.

This article has helped me decide that my demonstration speech should be on something the audience can benefit from.

"The following tips are taken from SPEAKING UP©, MIT Freshman Advising Seminar 055, that was offered by Norma McGavern (former UROP Director) in Fall 1996. These tips provide you with advice on how to deliver your message clearly and strongly, with as little pain as possible for you -the speaker -and your audience." - VERY useful website.

I really like the part of this article where it begins Don't be the unspeaker. Really good tips on how to embrace your fears of Public Speaking. When I gave my speech to actuate, interacting with the audience really helped me connect with them. I could see enjoyment in their facial expressions which helped put me at ease.

Very true! "Interacting with the audience" really helps to reduce the nervousness of speaking during presentation. It makes the speech more conversational.

10 tips to make u become a great speaker

Contains four step to manage anxiety

While this doesn't deal directly with speech confidence, it does deal with an anxiety-producing communication situation. This is posted for those group projects that many speech classes have to do, written by a fellow speech professor.

Robert E. Burns a visiting lecturer at Bridgewater State College talks about Speech Anxiety and the use of his method called "The 7 P's of Speech Anxiety Reduction". Moreover, he talks about how himself overcame the fear to public speaking. 

This website talks about how to choose a good speech topic. During my speech preparation, i felt that if i am comfortable about my topic or i know my topic well, it takes care of half of my nervousness about the speech delivery. So, i think having an interesting speech topic makes speeches enjoyable for the speaker as well as for the audience.