Title Ideas:
- The 10 Habits of Highly Effective Speakers
- The 10 Commandments of Effective Speaking
- The 10 Practices of Great Technical Speakers
- 10 Steps To a Great Talk
- A 10 Step Program For Great Tech Talks <-- BOOM. There it is.
Eulogy quip? (most Americans would rather be in the coffin than deliveriny the eulogy)
Ideas:
- Build in more time for questions
Audience exercises -- advanced?
- Know Your Audience
- technical level
- human language
- Have an Idea
- Know your topic
- Targeting it to the audience
- Tell a Story
- Outlining
- Storycraft (peaks & troughs)
- Craft Your Presentation
- slides
- presenting code
- Practice Your Talk
- timing & pacing
- editing
- flow (transitions, etc.)
- Get Ready to Speak
- eat, go pee, get water, etc.
- find the room
- check out the room
- check out the equipment (dongles, etc)
- prepare backup slides
- show up on time
- Present Yourself
- eye contact
- body language
- voice
- Deal with Demo Failure
- prepping demos
- fallbacks
- faking demos
- Interact with the Audience
- Dealing with that guy in the third row (general audience interaction stuff)
- jesus in the audience
- repeating the question
- Continue the Conversation
- hallway track
- sharing slides
- video