8 Presentations in 20 Days
The month of March is looking to be slightly extremely insane. I was happy to help get some of our work at Yahoo! accepted into the IA Summit – we’re presenting a 45min session on Communicating Concepts through Comics and doing a full day workshop where we teach people to use the technique. There’s also two South by Southwest panels I’m participating in, one as a moderator and one as a panelist. The following schedule is as much for my own record keeping but in case you’re interested:
- March 7 – Internal Workshop
- March 12 – SxSWi Moderating Map Hacks panel
- March 12 – Fray Cafe 6
- March 13 – SxSWi Panelist on Web Comics
- March 20 – Internal 45min session
- March 24 – IA Summit Full Day Workshop
- March 26 – IA Summit 45min session
- April 7 – Berkeley Presentation – 45min session (open)
- April 15 – Lap Pop @ Locus Arts
In preparation for these, I’ve been visiting or revisiting some presentations with particular attention to Lawrence Lessig’s presentation style and Dick Hardt’s derivative (which I’m less of a fan of). I also went back to Jeff Veen’s presentation notes – the most important and potentially obscure of which is to remember to take off the conference badge because it reflects and distracts. Finally, I watched a video of a dry run. Let me just say, listening to your own recorded voice is strange, watching a recorded video of yourself presenting is just plain unnerving.
If anyone has any additional presentation tips I’d definitely love to hear them.
Update: Berkeley got postponed. Did Fray Cafe open mic. Added Lap Pop.
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