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An Presentation

Avatar for Christopher Webber Christopher Webber
October 22, 2014
Education
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An Presentation

An presentation about giving presentations.

Avatar for Christopher Webber

Christopher Webber

October 22, 2014

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Transcript

  1. An Presentation Christopher Webber @cwebber

  2. None

  3. About Me

  4. Community Software Engineer at Chef

  5. None

  6. Organizer of LA DevOps, HangOps, SysAdvent

  7. Co-Host of Ops All The Things

  8. Rotarian

  9. Volunteer a LOT

  10. Why is presenting important?

  11. An Job

  12. Sales, Marketing, Finance, Retail, Managers, Teachers, Doctors...

  13. So yeah... Name a job where it isn't a thing.

  14. Life

  15. Scholarships

  16. Grades

  17. Buying All The Things!

  18. Personal Stories

  19. Rotary Four Way Test

  20. Career Growth

  21. Preparing

  22. A tale of two individuals

  23. None

  24. Death By Powerpoint

  25. Walls of text considered harmful

  26. Practice

  27. Notecards?

  28. How well do you know the topic?

  29. Butterflies

  30. Turn off your Cell Phone

  31. Taking the Stage

  32. Confidence

  33. Did I mention confidence?

  34. How are you presenting yourself?

  35. Does this jacket change anything?

  36. How about this hoodie?

  37. Make some noise!

  38. Don't Hide

  39. Reflect

  40. Did you see nods?

  41. Were you comfortable?

  42. How was your timing?

  43. Did you finish too soon?

  44. Did you still have 30 slides to get through?

  45. Pssst... recording your talks is kinda awesome.

  46. Getting Better

  47. Critique your own presentations

  48. Watch others present

  49. Excuses

  50. But I wont have to do this because I am

    gonna be an...

  51. But, I am an introvert

  52. Conclusion

  53. Presenting is a Thing

  54. Be Confident

  55. Questions?