How to give good Presentation

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1 Presentation How to give good

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2 @briangarside

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Four Key Things 1. Good information 2. Good delivery 3. Good presentation 4. Memorable 3

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1: Good Information Know your talk is interesting 4

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Start with a post • Write a blog post • Ask for feedback • Listen to the feedback • Modify your talk 5

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Write a Plan Session Plan: Title: Your presentation sucks Summary: Most presentations suck, yours probably does too. This talk will help you make your presentation memorable so that people aren’t talking about how crappy you were, but how awesome your sauce is. Session Objectives: 1.Outline the problem 2.Talk about a solution Audience Participation: • Show of hands, who has experienced crappy talkitis? 6

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Why an outline? • A one sentence summary focuses your talk • Bullet points let you figure out your segments • How do you engage your audience? 7

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Break It Down Session Outline: 0 min - 10 min: Spotting a Bad Presentation in the Wild Bad presentations can be identified by four key behaviors. 1: Bad info, 2: Poor delivery, 3: Crappy presentations, 4: Nothing memorable. Look at some examples. 10 min - 20 min: Old and Busted to New Hotness We break a bad presentation down into its component parts and make it good. 20 min - 30 min: Q&A Ask the audience to tell you about a great presentation. 8

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Leave with a story • Tell something personal • Reveal a pain point • What you took away • Talk about something you’ve done • Don’t talk about what you will do! 9

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2: Good Delivery How do you get to Carnegie Hall? 10

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Practice 11

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Practice in front of friends 12

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Practice in front of enemies 13

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Practice in front of your dog 14

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3: Good Presentation Even you can be pretty 15

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Presentation Tips Things to make your presentation sing! 16

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Create a kick ass great presentation • Short, punchy titles • Use Bullets • Leave an Impression - Not Details • Design Something Nice • Use Surprise 17

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Presentations are 18 EASIER TO BUILD on a mac (not impossible on a PC, just harder)

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Don’t use a boring 19 Default Font Google Fonts - Free, Open Source http://www.google.com/webfonts (This presentation uses Nunito)

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Contrasting Title Slides 20

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Repetition 21

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1 Picture = 1k words 22

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Shapes 23 Words are

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USE HUGE FONTS!!! 24

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World 25 Colour Your

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Bottom 1/3 26 Ignore the

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Use Code Samples A NoMethodError occurred in pop_fridge#insert_beverage: undefined method 'food' for nil:NilClass app/controllers/beverage_fridge.rb:12686:in 'insert_beverage' -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ Request: -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ * URL : http://ITBeverageFridge * IP address: 192.168.0.224 * Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"wZlEzRSmolXyIPFI/ ZCFp4vssG3PcY0QDxWkyA3sIHU=", "amount_1"=>"25%", "amount_2"=>"30%", "amount_3"=>"30%", "amount_4"=>"15%", "amount_5"=>"30%", "amount_6"=>"30%", "amount_7"=>"20%", "amount_8"=>"20%", "amount0"=>"50%", "controller"=>"beverage_fridge", "action"=>"insert_beverage", "id"=>"61"} * Rails root: /home/rails/www.infotech.com/releases/20111109162930 27

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...Remember Though A NoMethodError occurred in pop_fridge#insert_beverage: undefined method 'food' for nil:NilClass app/controllers/beverage_fridge.rb:12686:in 'insert_beverage' -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ Request: -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ * URL : http://ITBeverageFridge * IP address: 192.168.0.224 * Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"wZlEzRSmolXyIPFI/ ZCFp4vssG3PcY0QDxWkyA3sIHU=", "amount_1"=>"25%", "amount_2"=>"30%", "amount_3"=>"30%", "amount_4"=>"15%", "amount_5"=>"30%", "amount_6"=>"30%", "amount_7"=>"20%", "amount_8"=>"20%", "amount0"=>"50%", "controller"=>"beverage_fridge", "action"=>"insert_beverage", "id"=>"61"} * Rails root: /home/rails/www.infotech.com/releases/20111109162930 28

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Repetition 29 Repetition

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Repetition 30 Repetition Repetition

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4: Make it Memorable Why are you the best one to talk about this? 31

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Make it personal • This is about you • How did you solve a challenge? • How did it make you better? • What can THEY learn from YOU? 32

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Personal Story • Mike is a developer • Mike went to RailsConf in Austin • Mike had a really sore back • We used peer pressure to fix it 33

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Result: Mike Rode a Bull! 34

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PROOF! 35 Back fixed Peer Pressure Works

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That’s all folks 36 • Inspired by Zach Holman’s Post “Slide Design for Developers” • http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

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Info-Tech IT Blog itblog.infotech.com/category/talks/ 37 @briangarside