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!
Technical Speaking
Stories about getting up in front of technical audiences and doing a talk for them.
Improving Your Technical Speaking Skills: Be Approachable
Take questions, be available to chat, and have a place to show off your work.
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.
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.
Improving Your Technical Speaking Skills: Be Knowledgeable
You have to know your sh*t to be able to speak about it.
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!
C#, the web, ASP.NET Core, tutorials, stories, and more!