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Finding your voice: Becoming a speaker, https://youtu.be/0…
Finding your voice: Becoming a speaker
Submitting sessions/talks to conferences
Selecting topics
What's new?
What's interesting?
Where's your passion?
Writing abstracts
Title
You can workshop titles after you have a general subject
Don't get too cute
Be descriptive
Short Description
High level overview
2-3 sentences
Give the flavor, not the whole meal
Audience
Who are you trying to talk to?
What level of experience do you expect people to have?
Who will get value from this?
Outcomes/conclusions
What do you want people to know?
After this talk, what should people be able to do?
What comes NEXT after this talk?
What questions should people be able to answer after this?
Outline / Mind Map
This is the skeleton of the talk
Helps you find major themes to cover
Helps you understand how to order things
Helps you understand how big or small each part might be
Allows you to to brainstorm before making slides/content
Submitting talks/sessions
Pick out some conferences
Find out relevant dates
Fill out the CfP
If you have questions or want help, reach out!
Look for conference slack/discord
Look at people who run the conference
Look at social media of people involved
Learning about yourself
Name: 3-5 things that are unique about you
Think of 3-5 things that you can talk for 5 minutes if someone asked you right now
Think of 3-5 things you'd like to learn
Think of 3-5 things that you've done recently that you're proud of.
Find your "Why".
Be the person you needed when you were younger.
Learning and practicing speaking
Speak as if you are talking to a friend.
Start with a lightning talk!
https://virtualcoffee.io/assets/pdfs/lightning-talk-guide.pdf
Go to a local meetup, or start your own!
Listen to other people's stories
Record yourself! Watch it, or don't!
Accepted? Going from abstract to talk/session.
Pick a template
Make your slides
Practice!
Give the talk!
Mind Map! Organize your thoughts before making slides.
https://youtu.be/0-BkCkAiso8?si=C7D5RgxIJ4MZ5ffU
https://youtu.be/jeSkdpQQtz4?si=whISrBnRKuFQyLTD
https://youtu.be/u5ub-KP_2N4?si=SjnJ3trPjd63-w-P
https://youtu.be/ij1H_gUaHxw?si=wAwo1EmZo7sGC90Q
https://youtu.be/UQl8q09BpiA?si=4SUR00tuWUDnz7vy