IBM Developer Advocates - Proposals and Beyond - Presentation Help Workshop

Join the Slack channel: #presentation-help

Public Lists of Conferences:
https://www.papercall.io/events
https://www.confercal.com/
https://github.com/asciidisco/web-conferences-2018
http://www.meetup.land/
https://confs.tech/cfp/
https://colloq.io/events?callforpapers=open
https://twitter.com/mozTechCFPs

IBM Box Note with Info
https://ibm.ent.box.com/notes/309189487943?s=wnqu3vfolhxrjj6a0pvhfp26eafaxvah

Transcript

1. Presentation Help Workshop:
   Writing the Proposal and
   Beyond
   IBM Developer Advocates - 2019
   

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2. Today we’ll go over:
   1 - Finding a Topic
   Finding a topic that fits you and
   your interests.
   2 - Your Audience
   Thinking about your audience
   before writing your proposal.
   3 - Themes/Narratives
   Finding themes and narratives for your
   talk.
   4 - Getting Started
   How to write a proposal that is
   ready for calls for proposals
   (CfPs) and calls for speakers.
   5 - Where to Submit
   Finding places to submit your
   proposal to.
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3. Finding a Topic
   Finding a topic that fits you and your interests
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4. What are you
   passionate about?
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5. Brainstorming Talk Ideas
   ◉ What are you actively learning?
   ◉ What books are you reading?
   ◉ Whose work do you admire?
   ◉ What are you good at?
   ◉ What problem have you solved at work?
   ◉ Where do you want to go next in your career?
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6. Being a Developer Advocate is as much about building your own
   personal brand as it is about representing IBM out in the community.
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7. Brainstorm
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8. Your Audience
   Writing your proposal to fit your audience
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9. Who is your audience?
   Needs
   People Content
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10. Think about what makes your
    talk DIFFERENT.
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11. Themes and Narratives
    Finding Themes and Narratives for your talk
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12. Theme
    The subject of a talk, a piece
    of writing, a person's
    thoughts, or an exhibition; a
    topic.
    The difference between a
    Theme and Narrative
    Narrative
    A spoken or written account
    of connected events, a story.
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13. What’s Your Big
    Concept
    And what are the little pieces that will tie it together.
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14. “
    Your talk proposal should start with a
    big, eye catching idea (Theme) and then
    go on to tell your audience what they
    will learn (Narrative) from your talk.
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15. Getting Started
    How to write a proposal that’s ready to submit to CfPs and calls for
    speakers
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16. Start with a strong TITLE.
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17. Abstract Example #1
    TITLE: Learning HTTP
    HTTP is the fabric of the web and the growing API economy. Whether you're building a backend or a
    frontend application, creating an API, or consuming an API, it’s helpful to understand the basics of
    HTTP. Topics covered will include HTTP methods, request headers, request URIs, response status
    codes, response headers, resource representations, authentication, content negotiation, and caching.
    Interactive examples will be provided using an HTTP REPL (read–eval–print loop) as the client and
    Apache CouchDB or IBM Cloudant as the server.
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18. Abstract Example #2
    Title: Go Offline First to Save the World
    From supporting hospitals in Africa to providing electric power to Haiti to supporting families in rural
    Alaska, the Offline First approach to application development is truly saving the world. This session
    will uncover the approaches used in successful real world examples of Offline First and show you
    the tools and techniques that will allow you to build the same kinds of things.
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19. Abstract Example #3
    Title: Introducing Apache CouchDB 2.0
    Apache CouchDB is an open source document database featuring an HTTP API, JSON documents,
    and peer-to-peer replication. Take a tour of the new features and improvements in the
    newly-released Apache CouchDB 2.0 including clustering capabilities for horizontal scalability and a
    declarative MongoDB-style ad hoc querying system.
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20. Abstract Example #4
    Title: Love to Community Organizers
    An active tech community creates a vital pipeline of talented and connected people, which
    ultimately supports individuals with learning opportunities and businesses with talent. Being a tech
    community organizer is hard. I want to share with you some tips on how to work with organizers in
    your community. If you do it right, you can both benefit, and in turn your local tech ecosystem can
    benefit as well. The first step… buy your local community organizer a beer with no strings attached.
    They’ve earned it.
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21. Dos and Don’ts
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    Do!
    ◉ Keep it to a paragraph or
    two (at most) in length
    ◉ Start with a memorable
    anecdote
    ◉ Say what your audience
    will learn/take away
    ◉ Indicate WHO will
    benefit
    Don’t!
    ◉ Start with “In this talk…”
    ◉ Use acronyms
    ◉ Use long words
    ◉ Use run-on sentences
    ◉ Be too salesy
    ◉ Name drop
    

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22. Where to Submit
    Finding places to submit your proposal to...
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23. Look for an Enforceable
    Code of Conduct
    Does it provide
    a system for
    reporting to
    staff?
    Does it outline
    unacceptable
    behavior?
    Does it provide
    clear
    consequences?
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24. Lists I’ve Found:
    https://www.papercall.io/events
    https://www.confercal.com/
    https://github.com/asciidisco/web-conferences-2018
    http://www.meetup.land/
    https://confs.tech/cfp/
    https://colloq.io/events?callforpapers=open
    https://twitter.com/mozTechCFPs
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25. Thanks to Susan Malaika
    A list and tips that work for IBMers:
    https://ibm.ent.box.com/notes/309189487943?s=
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26. Ongoing Help for IBMers
    Join the Slack Channel: #presentation-help
    ◉ Weekly Office Hours on Thursdays at 12pm
    Eastern
    ◉ Practice your talk in front of a live audience
    ◉ Get feedback on your abstract
    ◉ Ask questions and get real world answers
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27. Link to these resources and slides:
    http://bit.ly/ibm-devrel-cfps
    You can find me on twitter at @Mo_Mack
    Thank You!
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