Presentation Help Workshop: Writing the Proposal and Beyond

Local Speaking Opportunities:
https://www.vtcodecamp.org/
http://burlingtoncode.org/start-a-meetup/
https://www.meetup.com/VTCode/
https://www.meetup.com/UpperValleyJS/
https://confoo.ca/en/yul2019

National/International Speaking Opportunities:
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

Transcript

1. Presentation Help Workshop: Writing the Proposal and Beyond Presentation Help Workshop @ VCET, July 10, 2018
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. 6 - Beyond the CfP Preparing for conference/meetup speaking Q&A 2
3. I want to know about you and why you are here! Introductions! 3
4. I am Maureen McElaney I am here because I love our tech community here in Burlington and want to convince YOU to speak at meetups and conferences. You can find me at @Mo_Mack Welcome! 4
6. Finding a Topic Finding a topic that fits you and your interests 1 6
7. What are you passionate about? 7
8. 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? 8
9. Brainstorm 9
10. Your Audience Writing your proposal to fit your audience 2 10
11. Who is your audience? Needs People Content 11
12. Think about what makes your talk different 12
13. Themes and Narratives Finding Themes and Narratives for your talk 3 13
14. 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. 14
15. What’s Your Big Concept And what are the little pieces that will tie it together. 15
16. “ 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. 16
17. Getting Started How to write a proposal that’s ready to submit to CfPs and calls for speakers 4 17
18. 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. 18
19. 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. 19
20. 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. 20
21. 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. 21
22. 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. 22
23. 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. 23
24. 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. 24
25. 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. 25
26. Dos and Don’ts 26 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
27. Where to Submit Finding places to submit your proposal to... 5 27
28. https://www.vtcodecamp.org/ 28 Deadline to apply: Sunday, July 29, 2018
29. More Local Speaking Opportunities… http://burlingtoncode.org/start-a-meetup/ https://www.meetup.com/VTCode/ https://www.meetup.com/UpperValleyJS/ https://confoo.ca/en/yul2019 29
30. If you want to travel… 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 30
31. Beyond the CfP What other questions do you have? 6 31
32. You can find me at ◉ @Mo_Mack ◉ maureen.mcelaney@gmail.com Thank You! 32