This repository contains a set of best practices for reviewing the content.
- speakers must engage with the audience at least few times during the speech
- speakers must answer questions (including those asked by moderators) by looking at the audience
- all slides must be relevant to the audience and challenged with the following questions:
- why you are telling / showing this?
- why is this important to the audience? (
ok, it's a nice slide and story. So what?) - is there a better way to convey the same message?
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speakers must cut down all the words said to the bare minimum and leave only the essentials. Once done, repeat.
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speakers must never expect audience to read the slides (except schemes, algorithms, where speaker is explaining it step by step)
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speakers must design minimalistic slides. An ideal slide has a single buzzword or a short sentence. All supporting information should be spoken.
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avoid "true, but useless" ideas, concepts and statements. There are many good ideas out there. We have to preserve only useful ones.
- speakers must not read from the transcript
- tell a story to inspire and "touch" the audience
- read Tips for Public Speaking
- read On Conference Speaking
- read An Open Letter To Speakers
- watch Top Tips for Terrible Tech Talks