Public Speaking

for Geeks

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Start Small

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SDLC

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(Session Development Lifecycle)@akalsey

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Have a list of talk ideas

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Your session proposal

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What goes in your talk?

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a Tellstory

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89% of all statistics are made up.

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Your Slide Contents‣ If you put a bunch of text on a slide your

audience starts reading it ‣ Stops paying attention to you

‣ finishes the slide before you

‣ moves on to email ‣ It gets worse with tiny text

‣ You’re not listening to a word I’m saying, are you?

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Worst. Slide. Ever.

‣ Don't read your slides to the audience. ‣ Why not? Because your audience can

probably read. ‣ This is easy if you don't fill the slides

with text.

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We’re the audience and we’re here to help

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“Picture the audience naked.”

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“Picture the audience naked.”

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Practice.

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?What’sa gooddemo

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Finding BART

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Finding BART

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Finding BART

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Finding BART

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Presentation Tech

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Murphy was an optimist.

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Adam Kalsey adam@kalsey.com @akalsey

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