Dirty Tricks of Presentors

A reader writes "Perl expert Mark Jason Dominus gave a great talk last month in St. Louis on how to give a good conference presentation. There's nothing specific to Perl, and a lot of people said they thought it was the most useful talk at the conference even though they didn't think they'd be doing a conference presenation any time soon. Mark also wrote up some notes that explain the parts he forgot to put on the slides."

the best advice I ever recieved was...

[idfrsr]

now if only that server wasn't slashdotted ;)

that if you prepare your presentation to rely on some technology, then said technology will find some way to stop working just long enough to ruin you presentation. Mind you hot stage lights can also be damaging... ("Developers!Developers!Developers!...")

If you can do a technical presentation without fancy do-dads and nothing more than your articulate descriptions and perhaps a white board, then you will be able to engage your audience much more effectively. they will listen, rather than watch...

It's effective communication that makes a good presentation, not what media was used.

Re:Tip Number 1

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't have typos in your title

Would it be appropriate to point out that it only qualifies as a typo if he actually knows how to spell it?

No.

Would it be appropriate to point out that it only qualifies as a crime if he actually knew it was illegal?

A typo is a typo is a tipo.


No, a typo is a mistake in operating the keyboard. If you correctly type the wrong spelling it's misspelling, not a typo.