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02 July 2008 01:32

Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy

I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers out of a set of applicants 2-3 times that size. I've run into a couple people since then that have asked for help/ideas on how to make it to the...
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17 June 2008 01:25

Community Speakers/Leaders - Where's the ROI?

I participated in a lunch meeting recently with a number of people from MS that work on their community efforts, and I thought one of their questions was interesting, if obvious; what do you get out of participating in the community as a speaker or group...
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12 June 2008 01:56

Presentations using a Panel Format

At the recent SQLSaturday #4 we had a session end up finishing much earlier than expected, so we gave the attendees the option of moving to other sessions or staying for a Q&A session done with a panel up front. I've only done the panel format...
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29 May 2008 01:54

Good Links on Speaking

Brian Kelley posted Giving a Presentation about a week ago and is worth reading, in particular his suggestion about Toastmasters I like (but have not tried) and the link to a post by Scott Hanselman. Today my friend Steve sent me this link to Tips for...
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14 May 2008 01:21

A Display Challenge

I've grown to like the presenter view in Powerpoint 2007; let's me navigate easily, and more important, lets me easily leverage notes as I often have scripts embedded in the notes. If you haven't tried it it treats the projector as a second...
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31 March 2008 01:45

Practices Does Make a Difference When Speaking

As I've mentioned a couple times previously I teach a free 'how to be a speaker' course, mainly to encourage those that want to speak at our local user group to take that next step. We focus on a lot of the mechanics and less on true public...
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11 March 2008 01:56

Presenter View in Powerpoint 2007

Friday I gave another iteration of our free Sucessful Technical Speaking class, upgraded some since the last version, and this was my first time using the Presenter View in 2007. If you haven't seen it yet here is a page about it from MS, but basically...
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21 February 2008 16:11

Call for Speakers for PASS Summit is Open Through March 28, 2008

The Summit is being held in Seattle, WA, Nov 18-21, 2008. Call for speakers is open through March 28. It's a great venue for SQL Server professionals and if you've been practicing at local events, maybe now is the time to try to move up to a national...
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13 February 2008 01:21

Speaker Eval Form, Part 2

My friend Mike Antonovich was kind enough to really go through my draft and provided some great feedback which I've incorporated below. I know it probably needs some work on formatting! I think there is also a mix of speaker vs room specific stuff...
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10 January 2008 01:07

Evaluating Speakers at Events

Speakers tend to live for the evals. Hopefully it's a validation of work done well after a lot of time preparing, but most speakers would gladly pay for meaningful feedback that would help them improve their game. Event organizers use the evals to...
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28 December 2007 01:30

Comments on "The Exceptional Presenter"

I purchased The Exceptional Presenter recently as part of my professional development spending. I currently work primarily as a trainer and I've done some training/speaking going back almost 20 years, but by no means would I consider myself to be...
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19 September 2007 13:40

Technical Speaking - Again

One of the points mentioned in the volunteer meeting on Tuesday was that it makes a lot of sense to grow local speakers rather than try to always bring in the 'big name' speakers. I agree with this and there is much you can do to try encourage...
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17 September 2007 14:38

Technical Speaking - Some Misc Thoughts

Last week I taught 'Successful Technical Speaking' for the first time - it's a free four class I put together for End to End Training to help train local speakers for the upcoming SQLSaturday , or maybe just to speak at an oPASS meeting. Getting...
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20 June 2007 20:00

Celko Cites Steve Jones

I'm at the bookstore today alternating some work with some professional development time and was reading some of Celko's SQL Programming Style and was mildly startled to see him reference a couple of Steve's articles ( Coding Standards Part...
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