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Presentation Tips for Technical Talks

Tanya Janca on May 31, 2019

In the past two years I've given and watched several technical talks, and they are not all created equal. Recently I met with Teuta H Hyseni to tal...
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Dillion Megida •

Thank you Tanya.
I'm having my first technical talk this weekend and I'd say there couldn't be a better article than this sliding through my feed.

I'm going to consider all these with all I've learnt before and I am sure it's going to be a success.

If there's more, I'd honestly love you to add them.

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Tanya Janca •

Good luck!!! You're going to be great. :-D

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Britain Green •

Great tips Tanya! To add to #8, I've always heard it's best to keep keep 3-4 lines max per slide so people don't ignore you while they're trying to take in all of the information on the slide. What are your thoughts on this?

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Tanya Janca •

Definitely! "Less is more" has never been so true!

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Dimitri Merejkowsky •

Nice list of tips. I've made another post that complements yours nicely I think: dev.to/dmerejkowsky/additions-to-h...

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Abhishek Gupta •

Thanks for sharing Tanya! :-)

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Scott Simontis •

Late to the party on this one, but thank you! I give my first tech talk in two weeks and I am very nervous...your tips gave me some confidence to rock that presentation :D

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Tanya Janca •

Go forth and kick ass! You can do it!!!!!!!

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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen •

Very valuable lessons!

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Franklin Castillo •

I'm planning my first talk and these are the kind of advices I was looking for :)
Thanks!