Nina Zakharenko gives some great advice about giving tech talks.
We talk about a blog series that Nina wrote called "The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks". This episode is full of great help and encouragement for your own public speaking adventures.
overcoming the fear of public speakingbreathing and pausing during talksplanning your talk as well as planning your time to get ready for the talkwriting proposals and getting feedback on proposalsNina's talk in PyCascades on programming Adafruit chipstypes of talks that are often rejectedpre-recording demos to avoid live demo problemswhy you should speak, even if you are an introvertbenefits of public speakinga super cool announcement at the endSpecial Guest: Nina Zakharenko.
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Links:
- The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks — Nina's series of posts with lots of advice on giving excellent tech talks.
- Azure for Python developers — Tutorials, API Reference | Microsoft Docs
- How to Do a Deep, Diaphragmatic Belly Breathing
- Example accepted and rejected conference talk proposals — Nina's examples
- Allison Kaptur's PyCon Proposal examples
- Emily Morehouse's proposal examples.
- Brandon Rhodes' example PyCon talk proposals
- Nina's PyCascades talk on Python and LEDs — PyCascades – Light Up Your Life – With Python and LEDs, starts at 13:26.
- Nina has a keynote at PyCon 2019 — woohoo!
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