Public speaking tips

presentation-tips.md

• The Comprehensive Guide to Speaking at Technology Conferences in 2020 (https://www.cfpland.com/guides/speaking/)
• What I've learned after sending 147 proposals to 36 conferences in a year (https://drobinin.com/posts/what-ive-learned-after-sending-147-proposals-to-36-conferences-in-a-year/)
• Introduction to slides, a Clean Presentation Tool (https://zge.us.to/slides.html)
• A command-line based markdown presentation tool (https://github.com/visit1985/mdp)
• Giving a presentation with perfect UI/UX design (https://habr.com/en/post/471624/)
• Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected (https://www.promptworks.com/blog/why-your-excellent-talk-was-rejected)
• Very Important Strangers (http://randsinrepose.com/archives/very-important-strangers/)
• Tips for Public Speaking (http://speaking.io)
• Presentation Skills Considered Harmful (http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/10/4/presentation-skills-considered-harmful)
• Passionate Programmer: How to Give a Keynote (https://web.archive.org/web/20150211231805/http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/08/how-to-give-a-keynote/)
• Edward Tufte's site (http://www.edwardtufte.com/)
  • Perhaps the least directly relevant yet potentially most valuable link in the list
• DevChix speaker notes (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PMhJJP7IQYiFtqxnS_h1EHPo1fBGoddcWLXaMaxx3Yc)
• Leslie Lamport, how to present a paper (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/howto.txt)
• How to Give the Killer Tech Talk (https://web.archive.org/web/20161012204049/http://writing.jan.io:80/2013/05/10/how-to-give-the-killer-tech-talk---a-pamphlet.html)
• What you need to know about speaking at conferences (http://ashedryden.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-speaking-at-conferences)
• Presentation Patterns for technical speakers (http://presentationpatterns.com)
• Speaker Resources (https://web.archive.org/web/20130114052925/http://jenmyers.net/speaking/speaker-resources.html)
• Developer's Guide to Creating Presentations (http://blog.josephwilk.net/presentations/a-developers-guide-to-creating-presentations.html)
• Advice for New and Aspiring Technical Speakers (http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/01/10/advice-for-new-and-aspiring-technical-speakers/)
• Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic (http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/11/the_zen_estheti.html)
• Kent Beck's 3 questions for focusing a talk (https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/focusing-talks-three-questions/536820369684165)
• Designing Presentations (http://gazit.me/2012/12/05/designing-presentations.html)
• What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing (http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/)
• Crafting a conference talk (http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2014-04-04-crafting-a-conference-talk.html)
• How to Give a Successful Ignite Presentation (http://userfirstweb.com/328/successful-ignite-presentations/)
• Speaking to a technical conference (http://spyced.blogspot.com/2012/03/speaking-to-technical-conference.html)
• Yes, you can speak at a conference (http://blog.8thlight.com/eric-smith/2014/05/28/you-can-speak-at-a-conference.html)