{"id":562,"date":"2007-06-05T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2007-06-05T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T20:48:53","slug":"how-to-give-great-presentations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"How to give great presentations&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us have been pulling together a community-oriented developer event here in the UK &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.developerday.co.uk\">DDD5<\/a>.  One of DDD5&#8217;s key goals is to nuture community talent and provide a platform for new speakers.  First time speakers, and I say this with the greatest respect, often need some tuition in order to deliver a good session.  <\/p>\n<p>If you are a new speaker, I believe that you&#8217;ll find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guysmithferrier.com\">Guy&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4chapsfromblighty.com\/media\/blogs\/4chaps\/Downloads\/Articles\/HowToGiveGreatPresentations.pdf\">How to give great presentations<\/a> an invaluable document!  It&#8217;s full of top tips covering topic selection, preparation, expected slides, explaining things, demonstrations, use of PowerPoint, cheat or crib sheets, delivery, nervousness, humour, gadgets\/pointing tools, drawing and zoom tools, mobile phones (what you can do to stop it from happening!) and how to close your presentation (bring it to an end).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see Guy recommending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/sysinternals\/utilities\/zoomit.mspx\">ZoomIt<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s a great tool that I use most of the time.  It&#8217;s well worth taking a look at it if you are delivering a lot of presentations.  Incidentally, ZoomIt is written and maintained by Mark Russinovich of SysInternals fame.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/presentations\" rel=\"tag\">presentations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/HowToGiveGreatPresentations\" rel=\"tag\">HowToGiveGreatPresentations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Guy+Smith-Ferrier\" rel=\"tag\">Guy Smith-Ferrier<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ZoomIt\" rel=\"tag\">ZoomIt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mark+Russinovich\" rel=\"tag\">Mark Russinovich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/SysInternals\" rel=\"tag\">SysInternals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us have been pulling together a community-oriented developer event here in the UK &#8211; DDD5. One of DDD5&#8217;s key goals is to nuture community talent and provide a platform for new speakers. First time speakers, and I say this with the greatest respect, often need some tuition in order to deliver a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to give great presentations&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-developer-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}