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Have good information about what to do before, during and after a speech.

Mildred, remember to "tag" your entries. Be sure to include the "dk:confidence" tag as well, but the other tags are the most important.

10 tips to make u become a great speaker

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. 

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. 

"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.

Overview of important points when creating a speech, such as: Audience analysis, Effective introduction,  Making the speech easy to understand, Helping the audience to listen, Keeping audience interest, Creating an effective conclusion,  Practicing for effective presentation.

3 Helpful tips that will help you provide impact to your speech during delivery. 

Contains four step to manage anxiety

This article suggests eight different ways you can make a speech come to life by non-verbal communication, your body language. Along with this article, toastmasters.org has numerous helpful and useful resources. I suggest you all take a look! :)

I love this article because it gives you several different choices to work with and STRONG examples. Peter Jeff, the author, is very encouraging in this article as well. At the very end he challenges the reader to use one of these ideas on their next speech.