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Had a bit of a hard time writing my latest talk, so trying a new system. #Conference #presenting
a mini
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a mini
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My old system was fairly standard:
1. Write an outline
2. Build a first version of the deck
3. Rehearse and refine until the day of (usually 10-12 times depending on the length)
This worked well for writing 30-60 minute talks, but this is a shorter talk and wasn't working.
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1. Write an outline
2. Build a first version of the deck
3. Rehearse and refine until the day of (usually 10-12 times depending on the length)
This worked well for writing 30-60 minute talks, but this is a shorter talk and wasn't working.
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So instead, I decided to pretend someone I knew was asking me about it off the top of my head:
New system:
1. Give the talk extemporaneously and record
2. Use MS Word to transcribe
3. Figure out what the salient points are
4. Build slides around that
5. Rehearse and refine
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New system:
1. Give the talk extemporaneously and record
2. Use MS Word to transcribe
3. Figure out what the salient points are
4. Build slides around that
5. Rehearse and refine
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Recording helped me watch the time. Sometimes for shorter talks, I've written longer talks and then had to pare down. That can be hard to do with a big subject. It also let me find a more natural structure for the talk at the start instead of discovering it later.
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I think this also worked because it was a shorter talk. If it was a long talk, it might be too much work to extract the salient points and structure from a transcript.
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Knowing my subject well also helps. Then again if you don't know something well why are you giving a presentation to others about it?
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If you are trying to write a talk and struggling to figure out a structure, pretend a friend just asked you about the subject. Then talk like you are explaining it to them.
The talk is inside you already!
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The talk is inside you already!
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