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Notes on My Visit to the St Louis SQL Group

Actually it was subset of the group, but Kathi & Julie from the St Louis SQL Server User Group did a great job of marketing my free Succesful Technical Speaking class. Microsoft was kind enough to provide both meeting space as well as lunch in a great show of community support. We had about 10 people...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 08-19-2008
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 national level. Please note that I don't have...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 07-01-2008
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 leader? I think it falls into three buckets: Indirect...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-16-2008
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 a couple times and by the time we finished realized...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-11-2008
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 Public Speaking that you might also find interesting...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 05-28-2008
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 monitor, audience sees the slide full screen, you...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 05-13-2008
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 speaking items, and we emphasize practice. One of...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 03-30-2008
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 it makes it very easy to show the audience the...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 03-10-2008
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 audience! The competition to get on the schedule...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 02-21-2008
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 in the eval, making it more of a 'session'...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 02-12-2008

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