Day Camp 4 Developers #5: Public Speaking for Developers
22 Mar 2013
at Online
Talk comments
Good job...I appreciated the practical advice!
I appreciated Keith's experience, and he is very confident in his speaking. The first half was a bit redundant with other presenters, but that's not entirely his fault. However, the second half seemed to drag a bit with long anecdotes and abundant reinforcing of some ideas. They were all good points though.
Even on his alleged deathbed Keith was able to deliver useful information and tips for successfully handling problems that can and will happen while presenting. I picked up several things I need to work on. Well worth attending.
Some points in the beginning were a bit redundant (bad luck with being in the last spot). Thinking about the audience should really be at the start of everything, so it felt odd having that mentioned in the last talk.
Completely disagree on the slide advice. Don't use templates - I don't need your name on every slide.
Sound wasn't too great due to the phone connection - made it hard to concentrate (extra hard since this was the fourth talk in a row).
Some good tips on typical mistakes (e.g. prepare your laptop) and things that can go wrong ("have a plan B"). Loved the story about the powerout at the conference hotel.
A little muffled but content was great. Good points!
Very nice talk with insights into being well prepared.
Very excellent coverage of things to watch out for, especially on handling trolls. Trolls: a more common problem than it really should be, sadly.
Audio quality of phone connection was not great but the content was excellent.
Very clear. Excellent info on criteria for talk acceptance (didn't know some of those points). Overall presentation was great, but was a bit difficult to understand from time to time (speaking was fast and voip dropped some fragments of words which made it choppy).