Introductions Both 1min
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Know Your Audience V 10min
- Some criteria to consider:
- technical level
- human language
- expected audience size
- style expectations
- culture
- current events in community
- How to learn this information
- Ask the conference organizers
- social media
- Define it yourself up front
- Declare technical level, language, etc & audience will self-select
- Casual surveys (social media)
- What does audience want to hear?
- What questions would audience want answered?
- What problems have audience had?
- Some criteria to consider:
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Have an Idea J 10min
- The elevator pitch
- CFP
- Know your topic
- something you know well (or will by the time you present)
- something you care about
- Research
- Develop the tech (demos, apps)
- What will the audience learn?
- Take-aways: specific & actionable
- What do you want them to do?
- Appropriate to timeslot
- The four basic timeslots
- 5 minutes
- 20 minutes
- 40 minutes
- Tutorial
- Different versions for different timeslots
- Topic Don'ts
- sock-puppeting
- Have your own story; tell your own story
- incomplete projects
- bait & switch
- Fulfill the promise of your talk proposal
- Sales & Marketing
- Expo floor is for the pitch
- Session floor is for learning
- sock-puppeting
- The elevator pitch
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Tell a Story V 10min
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Outlining V
- Methods
- Hi-fi
- Mind-mapping software
- Kanban boards
- Lo-fi
- Sticky notes
- Note cards
- Hi-fi
- Iterate
- Methods
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The 6 basic presentation stories J
- catalog
- end-to-end
- quest
- enlightenment
- theme & variations
- show & tell
EXERCISES 15min
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Craft Your Presentation J 10min
- No Slides J
- demo-only talks
- web tour talks
- Slide software V
- The Big Three (Four?)
- reveal.js and alternatives
- Slides J
- Colors (light/dark, heraldry)
- Typefaces
- Amount of words per slide (one idea == one slide)
- Amount of slides per presentation
- animations/transitions (use sparingly)
- think inside the box (text/picture placement)
- Presenting code J
- Colors
- Typefaces
- Number of lines per slide
- Showing a lot of code
- collapse/zoom
- terminal/text editor
- don't present it all, link instead
- Special sections V
- TOC
- About/Intro
- Keep to a minimum; they're not there to learn about you
- Recap
- More info page
- Have a section in reserve V
- Bonus section if you have more time ("…one more thing")
- Easy to cut if you're running short on time
- Consider adding bonus sections for particular audiences
- accessory themes (like cats, pirates, racecars, etc.)
- "you don't have to be a gigolo" (dealing with work-mandated themes)
- No Slides J
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Practice Your Talk V 10min
- This is NOT optional V
- Avoids "reading your slides" V
- Even if you have copious speaker notes
- How to practice V
- Present to a mirror (or your pet)
- Present to your friends
- Present at a local meetup
- Record yourself!
- Timing, pacing, and tools V
- allow extra
- write down section times
- Practice each section separately (hit your times)
- use a timer
- use a clicker
- editing V
- flow (transitions, etc.) V
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Get Ready to Speak V 5min
- 7 days before V
- check the schedule
- check for other talks
- check on special equipment
- double-check length, description
- 1 day before V
- Check the room
- check the projectors
- prepare backup slides
- Local drive
- USB drive
- Cloud drive
- do last run-through
- get some sleep
- check out the equipment (dongles, etc)
- lighting?
- A/V?
- Internet?
- Clicker?
- Power?
- Will laptop fit on the podium?
- If possible, do a complete setup & test
- 1 hour before V
- finalize/confirm demos
- shut down all other stuff on laptop
- check clothes/hair
- 20 minutes (or session) before V
- go to the bathroom
- go to the room (watch the prev. preso in room)
- 10 minutes V
- turn off phone, close apps, silence notifications
- empty pockets
- remove lanyard
- ALWAYS plug in your machine
- verify internet (if needed)
- 7 days before V
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Present Yourself J 10min
- eye contact J
- A must
- "Floating": Not only your friends or those people in the first 2 rows
- avoid staring
- body language V
- expansive shows more confidence (open/closed stance)
- get up and move around!
- smile and be engaged with the material and audience
- avoiding bad habits (flapping, hunching, hands in pockets)
- voice V
- projection
- diction
- emotion/color
- "Um"
- Never apologize for being an inexperienced speaker V
- EXERCISES 15min
- floating
- stance
- diction/tongue-twisters
- eye contact J
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Deal with Demo Failure J 10min
- prepping demos (docker/vms/scripts/test runs)
- terminal settings / setup
- text size / colors
- have your windows set up
- command history
- virtual screens
- keep text in top half of screen
- multiple desktops
- embedded terminal
- failure
- why demos fail
- fallbacks
- dealing with the audience
- fake it till you make it
- when a live demo is best
- how to fake demos / fallbacks
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Interact with the Audience V 10min
- Before the talk starts V
- quick polling
- announcements
- pre-Q&A
- get people to move to the front of the room
- Asking for a response V
- Jokes
- good but hard to do right
- Basic Q&A V
- determining question periods
- Picking audience members
- repeating the question
- Ask for questioner's name
- Audience problems V
- Don't know the answer
- Dealing with that guy in the third row
- jesus in the audience
- offending your audience
- I have a story (comments not questions)
- Interactive Exercises J
- rewarding audience members
- EXERCISE: Q&A 15min
- Before the talk starts V
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Continue the Conversation J 10min
- hallway track J
- take it out to the hall
- BOFs/follow up
- Business cards!
- social networking V
- replying to mentions
- sharing slides/audio/video
- sharing slides, audio, video V
- slideshare
- Internet Archive (nope, I won't budge on this one. :) )
- personal page
- speaker notes
- licensing!
- Copyright != license
- sharing additional code
- curating slides/talks J
- github/whatever
- version your talks
- revise for each conference
- getting feedback V
- conference systems
- soliciting on your own
- Online services
- Joind.in
- Google Forms
- SurveyMonkey
- etc.
- Online services
- how to use feedback
- grains of salt
- improving your talk
- video/audio V
- making videos
- sharing video
- hallway track J
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Conclusion