| One thing i like to do is: Watch other people's talks that are on the same subject you'll want to speak. Make notes (mental or in paper) about what you think that talk missed, what could be improved, please bear in mind the POV of the target audience. Go to the extra mile, always focus on bring some trivias that people can ~visualize~. For example, when i give talks about Debian[#]:
I know that a lot of people likes to tell the story of how Debian release 1.0 went wrong because InfoMagic accidentally released a cdrom containing a development release of Debian as 1.0[1], but few people show the actual cd containing that release, so i like to put that[2]. Almost everyone also mentions about the relationship between debian's logo and buzz lightyear's chin, but almost none show or say something about the two pre-toy-story logos[3]. These examples represent only one of the few things i think one have to focus when doing talks, and may look silly, but i like to value them because they'll be one of the things that attendees won't forget easily plus are always fun to know. Also, the presentation i referred has some other problems, please just note the referred pages. [#]please note that i don't think i'm a good talk'er yet, just sharing my experience. [1]https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releas...
[2]http://debianbrasil.org.br/articles/0170/7708/introducao-ao-...
[3]http://debianbrasil.org.br/articles/0170/7708/introducao-ao-... |