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Tips on how to get your paper selected

A strong title - A short, precise and memorable title is a good start.

Brevity use concise and exact use of words when submitting your paper. Ask yourself if you will beable to fit everything you mentioned in your paper into a 45 minute session slot.

Clarity - An abstract needs to succinctly explain what the presentation will cover. We have to knowwhat the talk will address, what the attendees can expect to learn and what (if any) prior knowledge isrequired.

Personality - A lively and well-written abstract encourages the reader to believe that the actualpresentation will be entertaining and worthwhile.

Wittiness - this helps, but not at the expense of clarity. It is more important that the title conveysaccurately the matter of the presentation rather than makes us smile.

Avoid in-jokes and obscure jargon.

Numerous submissions avoid submitting over three papers per speaker.

Cross stream submissions submit papers across the different streams, you have a better chanceof getting onto the agenda.

Client/Case studies any paper detailing how a client fixed or overcame a problem is a popularpresentation choice for the User Group members.

Presented at other UKOUG events any speaker who has spoken at other UKOUG events (i.e.other conferences or Special Interest Groups (SIGs)) will be given preference.

Submitting process

Presentation titlesAll abstract/paper titles should have leading capitals (e.g. "Planning for Stability with Plan Stability"

and NOT "Planning for stability with plan stability")

Judging AbstractThis abstract will be seen by the UKOUG Primavera Committee, this abstract will also be used on thewebsite when the agenda is launched, so please make sure that all content including product namesand company names, are spelt correctly and used in the correct form (i.e. EnterpriseOne notEnterprise1, etc.).

UKOUG does not take responsibility for misspelt words; however we do reserve the right tocorrect/amend any abstracts as necessary.

Key terms used by the User Group

Agenda Planning day (formally known as Paper Selection day) this is the day where the agenda isselected for each conference by the Paper Selection Committee.

Keynote A main session by an important person in the industry. This session will be the onlysession running during this time as it will be relevant to all.

Session - Refers to a timed agenda item, whether it be a presentation, roundtable, masterclasses,etc.

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Stream - Headline subject area or category.

Topic - This is the presentation topic within the Stream, for example RAC sits within the Server Techstream.

Guidelines to writing your presentation slides

Compliance of the slides with the Instructions for Layout (see below)

1. UKOUG does not require that speakers use a UKOUG template

2. All presentations should be submitted in the format that the speaker wishes the UKOUG audienceto view/download them in.

3. Please put your name and presentation title on the first slide

4. Graphs often speak louder than words

5. Avoid dark coloured backgrounds with black text on your slides your information will not be clear to

the audience.

6. Avoid 'screen dumps' for the slides being uploaded to the conference website, as this will affect thefile size and the download time for the delegates

7. Recommended lowest font size is 18

8. UKOUG will transfer all received presentation slides to their corporate website approximately onemonth after the event. If you wish that your slides are not transferred then please adviseanna@ukoug.org.