Comments on: 6 Tips for Technical Presentations http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/10/15/6-tips-for-technical-presentations/ Virtualization, System Administration, and Technology. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:17:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: wjl (Wolfgang Lonien) http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/10/15/6-tips-for-technical-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-46433 wjl (Wolfgang Lonien) Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:11:03 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/10/15/6-tips-for-technical-presentations/#comment-46433 Last time I did a talk I just used two - no, not slides, but screenshots. That got people really interested. It's one thing to hear about Cacti and Nagios, it's another one if you have never seen it. The response and the questioning after my talk was overwhelming. Oh, and I did stay close with that other rule: learn about your audience first. I asked how many Sysadmins were there, if I should talk in German like all the people before me did, or rather in English (there were two or three people in the audience who understood English only, so I stuck to that after mentioning that this is not my native language). Thanks for coming up with all these good tips, Bob. I follow your blog since a while and find it quite good. cheers, wjl Last time I did a talk I just used two – no, not slides, but screenshots. That got people really interested. It’s one thing to hear about Cacti and Nagios, it’s another one if you have never seen it.

The response and the questioning after my talk was overwhelming.

Oh, and I did stay close with that other rule: learn about your audience first. I asked how many Sysadmins were there, if I should talk in German like all the people before me did, or rather in English (there were two or three people in the audience who understood English only, so I stuck to that after mentioning that this is not my native language).

Thanks for coming up with all these good tips, Bob. I follow your blog since a while and find it quite good.

cheers,
wjl

]]> By: Bob Plankers http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/10/15/6-tips-for-technical-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-46316 Bob Plankers Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:59:07 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/10/15/6-tips-for-technical-presentations/#comment-46316 Yeah. My favorite is the presenter that does that, then can't answer any advanced questions at the end because they only copied the stuff out of a book or a blog post. Yeah. My favorite is the presenter that does that, then can’t answer any advanced questions at the end because they only copied the stuff out of a book or a blog post.

]]> By: Coeus http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/10/15/6-tips-for-technical-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-46276 Coeus Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:08:55 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/10/15/6-tips-for-technical-presentations/#comment-46276 The 10/20/30 rule is golden. I can't count how many times I've been in a presentation where the presenter just read off the slides. If that is all you're going to do, just give me the slides and be done with it. Did I mention the slides where a veritable novel each? The 10/20/30 rule is golden. I can’t count how many times I’ve been in a presentation where the presenter just read off the slides. If that is all you’re going to do, just give me the slides and be done with it. Did I mention the slides where a veritable novel each?

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