Jess, thank you for writing this as well as your other article. I love the honesty and helpful information.
I'm giving my first conference talk in a month and I know those nerves will be tough. I'm also giving an early talk and I'm not an extremely energetic speaker naturally.
Knowing that content shines through hiccups and nerves helps immensely.
I also can attest to the huge quantity of work a talk represents.
It went great! I had some issues with slides auto-advancing that threw me off for the first 6 minutes, and overall I went a lot faster in the real thing than I did in any of my 15 practices, so I ended earlier than I thought I would, but the speech had 310 people in the audience and got rave reviews.
It's actually on Pluralsight now and I found out today that the same talk was accepted at my "home" conference and I'll get to give it again at Stir Trek on May 1st in a slightly expanded form!
Thanks! I've been hearing that more recently, which is interesting. I think it's not as much of being a natural as having fully mentally prepared for being in that room and speaking as well as having practiced that talk 15x before I gave it. Still, that's good feedback for someone considering transitioning into becoming a development bootcamp instructor.
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Jess, thank you for writing this as well as your other article. I love the honesty and helpful information.
I'm giving my first conference talk in a month and I know those nerves will be tough. I'm also giving an early talk and I'm not an extremely energetic speaker naturally.
Knowing that content shines through hiccups and nerves helps immensely.
I also can attest to the huge quantity of work a talk represents.
Keep talking. Keep writing!
Thank you for the kind words Matt!
How did your first conference talk go?
It went great! I had some issues with slides auto-advancing that threw me off for the first 6 minutes, and overall I went a lot faster in the real thing than I did in any of my 15 practices, so I ended earlier than I thought I would, but the speech had 310 people in the audience and got rave reviews.
It's actually on Pluralsight now and I found out today that the same talk was accepted at my "home" conference and I'll get to give it again at Stir Trek on May 1st in a slightly expanded form!
That's fantastic, congratulations!! So glad to hear you rocked it!
Looking at your video, you're a natural :)
Thanks! I've been hearing that more recently, which is interesting. I think it's not as much of being a natural as having fully mentally prepared for being in that room and speaking as well as having practiced that talk 15x before I gave it. Still, that's good feedback for someone considering transitioning into becoming a development bootcamp instructor.