How-To- for Conferences

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
  • Picturing yourself as a silly animal, and other public speaking tips for the timid
  • How to prepare: Speaker’s Checklist
  • 20 Public Speaking Tips of the Best TED Talks
  • 10 Ways Great Speakers Capture People’s Attention
  • A white-label slide deck

• 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
  • How to give a killer tech talk – Jan Lenhardt
  • Font tips for code in presentations – from starkcoffee
  • How to write a talk – Soledad Penadés

• Crafting Decks
  • List of presentations from Mozilla Tech Speakers

• Tools
  • Hemingway – online editor that analyzes readability

• Places to Get Help
  • HelpMeAbstract – Get feedback on talk abstracts from real conference organizers

• Older Materials
  • TechSpeakers Curriculum
  • Speaking Tips

• A repository of audience questions
  • Questions on various tech topics