A course for Software Professionals who aspire to speak at conferences. This course walks you through how to build credibility via blogging. The whole sales pitch and promotion of your talk so you can be accepted to speak at conferences. How to practice and prepare. And how to handle the conference when you do get there: Q&A and what it is like to attend a conference as a speaker.
Filled with behind the scenes access to how I prepare and create conference talks. This is experience based.
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Contents
You can read the full contents on this Patreon post, but I’ve summarised it below.
A guide to blogging, YouTube and conferences to help you improve your career by making your work and thoughts visible to the Test and Software Development community:
Blogging
- Intro to Blogging
- What to blog about?
- blogging Lessons Learned Summary Tracking
- get started blogging checklist
Case Studies
- Blogging Case Study:
YouTube
- Lessons on Video Creation
- Video Creation Tips Scripts, Practice and Handling Mistakes
- Free Video Recording and Editing Software
- Live Streaming Video Tools and Equipment Case Study
- Recommended Microphones for Recording and Streaming
- Demo of 3.5 mm Microphones I use
- Overview of All The Kit That I Use @ Jan 2019
Conferences
- Initial Concerns
- Pay to Speak and Peer Pressure
- Fear of Public Speaking Discussed
- Getting Ideas for your Talk
- General Summary of Concerns and Motivations
- LifeCycle of a Conference Talk
The practicalities of Conference Speaking and Submissions.
- The Submission Process
- Have the Motivation to submit
- Research the Submission Process
- Crafting a Submission
- Treat your submission as a sales process
- Edit to get it right
- On Submitting
- On Rejection
- Being Accepted
- Negotiation Advice for Conferences
- Promoting Your Talk
- Tactics for Reducing The Cost of Conferences
- Creating Your Talk
- Creating Slides with Markdown
- Practicing Your Talk
- How to Remember Your Conference Talk
- Practicing to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking
- Delivering Your Talk
- Recording your talk
- Starting Your Talk
- Handling stuff that happens and goes wrong
- Ending Your Talk
- Handling Questions
- After Your Talk
- Handling Feedback at the Conference
- Being a Speaker At a Conference
- Your personal debrief
- Handling Feedback After The Conference
- Promoting your talk after it has finished
- Reusing your talk
- Repeating a Conference Talk
- Extra Notes
- Recommended Reading
- Speaking Concerns at conferences (Pay To Speak, First Time Speaker, Exposure, Diversity)
Case Studies
- Conference Case Studies:
- Conference Case Study Intro
- Conference Case Study Idea
- Conference Case Study Mindmap braindump
- Conference Case Study Mindmap and structure
- Conference Case Study - Eurostar 2018 Keynote
- Conference Case Study - Eurostar 2018 The Silent Run Through Milestone
- Conference Case Study - Eurostar 2018 Advice and Styles
- Conference Case Study - Example Practice of a Lightning Talk
- Conference Case Study - Agile Testers Conference 2018 - prep
- Conference Case Study - Agile Testers Conference - Retrospective
