Over the last few months I got back into doing talks for meetups & confs.
I took this chance to go through my bookmars of smart people writing about how to do good tech talks and clean it up; and today I want share it with y'all 🤗 be ready, it's a longish one!
Let's start 👇🧵
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2) 's "5 Essential Ingredients for an Awesome Tech Talk" - much lighter tone, good fundamentals to use to review that your talk has all the basics covered
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3) 's Tips for Public Speaking () - suuuuuper comprehensive! An entire website of resources, with nice "topic areas" and dedicated per each. Always good to go back to it and get inspired by his approach.
speaking.io
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4) 's "How to prepare a talk" - I love when speakers share their personal approach from start to finish, there's always something to learn.
deconstructconf.com/blog/how-to-pr
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5) 's "Presentation Tips for Technical Talks" - it might look a bit of a daunting numbered list, but some true nuggets in there! (also, some good tips for dealing with the audience)
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6) "Cut out everything that’s not surprising" - short and straight to the point. I like coming back to this to see if my talk lives up to it.
sive.rs/d22
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7) 's "10 Ways to Help Accessibility at Conferences as a Speaker" - this one is always a MUST. All speakers should keep in mind #a11y, and in this blogpost she shares a LOT of great things to do to help.
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8) 's "The Comprehensive Guide to Speaking at Technology Conferences in 2020" - it's still very useful despite saying 2020 in the title, don't worry! This is great for first-time speakers with those first few parts on the types of confs, etc.
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9) 's "Preparing for a Tech Talk" series. I like how he divided each post and his insights. I can't help but feeling that I want to know what that "• To be continued" is about 🤣 still, great stuff, always good to get more inspiration
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10) 's "Things experienced speakers wish they'd known: Tips for first time conference speakers" - what's to say about this? When I read this back in 2018 I was like "heck yeah, this is great". When I read it now, "heck yeah, this is great".
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11) 's "Public Speaking for Beginners" - last but not least. I wanted to close off with this as it covers the human/performance side; money quote:
"Your audience is on your side, they really do want you to succeed."
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