Speaking
From Mozilla
- CFPs or How to find a conference to speak at
- One way to write a good CFP: Sample Proposals for O’Reilly Conferences
- Subscribe to Technically Speaking, a public speaking newsletter
- For developer-oriented conferences, subscribe to the CFP report and set your preferences
- Presentation Basics
- Storytelling (suggestions from Alison Meyer & other sources)
- The Science of Storytelling: What Listening to a Story Does to Our Brains
- 6 Rules for Great Storytelling
- Resonate (a book on presentations)
- The Danger of a Single Story
- Talk Coaching: Few Lessons to Keep in Mind – Tech Speaker Gloria Dwomoh wrote up the notes from her coaching session
- Finding Inspiration (suggestions from Pilot 3 – memorable presentations)
- Robert Waldinger – What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
- Simon Sinek- How great leaders inspire action
- Simon Sinek- Why good leaders make you feel safe “Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank…”
- The 26%: Facebook’s Mary Lou Jepsen Says Tech is Hostile to Women “When someone tells you something is impossible, it really means they’re a little bit jealous, and keep going, you’re on the right track…”
- Technical Speaking
- Crafting Decks
- Tools
- Hemingway – online editor that analyzes readability
- Places to Get Help
- HelpMeAbstract – Get feedback on talk abstracts from real conference organizers
- Older Materials
- A repository of audience questions
