Video description
Conferences abound in most industries, and being a speaker at
them can be valuable for anyone’s career advancement. This video is
about how to market yourself if you want to speak at these events,
rather than just sit in the audience. It contains a wealth of tips
from two seasoned presenters, from understanding your audience, to
finding unique ideas, creating an abstract, crafting a biography,
choosing a title, understanding the three parts of a conference
proposal, and organizing and structuring content. Speaker Camp
Workshop brings alive visual and dynamic examples reinforcing the
coverage in the book. Viewers will be able to see what works in
real presentations, how to handle practice sessions, manage
different types of audiences, the mechanics of presenting material
on a stage, and how to control questions and answers — whether
friendly or hostile. And it doesn’t stop there: it goes on to make
suggestions for evaluating and improving your presentation for the
next time, incorporating what you've learned from feedback, whether
live or through social media.
Table of Contents
Brainstorming Your Big Idea
Welcome
00:01:30
Why you need a big idea
00:04:35
Brainstorming and refining your big idea
00:06:16
Writing Your Presentation Proposal
Parts of a conference proposal
00:01:52
The Title
00:02:49
The Write-up
00:06:16
The Bio
00:05:39
Structuring Your Presentation
Start with you
00:03:19
Build a narrative
00:04:34
Develop an outline
00:02:24
Creating Your Presentation
The slide deck
00:04:37
Hone your communication skills
00:04:28
Practice your presentation
00:03:22
Presentation Day
Pre-Game: Before you hit the stage
00:03:24
Game Time: On stage
00:03:45
Q&A: Handling the audience
00:04:42
Iterating your presentation
00:02:46