Members Only Technical Speaking Improving Your Technical Speaking Skills: Don't Be Boring! Be interactive, don't introduce yourself, chat with the audience, and above all else be enthusiastic!
Members Only Technical Speaking Improving Your Technical Speaking Skills: Be Approachable Take questions, be available to chat, and have a place to show off your work.
Members Only Technical Speaking Improving Your Technical Speaking Skills: Be Communicative Use intentional and evocative language, practice A LOT, delete anything that isn't valuable, and remove filler words.
Members Only Technical Speaking Improving Your Technical Speaking Skills: Be Respectful of the Audience Know your audience, don't waste their time, speak as a colleague not an expert, and let them leave.
Members Only Technical Speaking Improving Your Technical Speaking Skills: Be Knowledgeable You have to know your sh*t to be able to speak about it.
Members Only Conferences CodeMash, Pluralsight, and My First Recorded Talk (Comments Welcome!) I was lucky enough to get one of my technical talks recorded, and now you can watch it, along with 92 others from CodeMash!
Members Only Conferences Mind of the Speaker - How Do You Feel About Your First Presentation? The first time we do anything, we're terrified. Asking out that first date, submitting that first patch, reviewing someone else's code for the first time. Surprisingly, how we feel about
Members Only Conferences Mind of the Speaker - The Most Important Thing To Remember On Stage I've always been fascinated by the idea of getting up in front of hundreds of strangers and being expected to present your ideas to them. It's simultaneously enticing and terrifying,
Members Only Teaching How To Become A Tech Conference Speaker I attended the AngleBrackets/DevIntersection tech conference in Las Vegas this past October (as I also did in May), and while I was there I tracked down as many speakers
Members Only Teaching Inside the Mind of the Tech Conference Speaker I attended the AngleBrackets/DevIntersection tech conference in Las Vegas this week (as I did earlier this year). It was a fantastic experience as always, and I highly recommend that
Members Only Conferences AngleBrackets Day 2 Wrapup - I Got Friends in Lowy Places The second day of AngleBrackets was another productive day for me. It also (accidentally, I swear!) turned out to have a lot of Juval Lowy and his project design courses, so the more technically-inclined people out there may want to skip to Day 3.
Members Only Conferences AngleBrackets Day 1 Wrapup - MVC, Project Design, and Interviews My colleague Jim and I are attending the AngleBrackets conference here in Phoenix. It's the first conference I've ever been to, and I'm loving every minute of it. If you ever get a chance to attend one of these conferences, friggin jump on it!
