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Technical Speaker Training Notes – Day 1

March 4, 2009 1:27 am Girl Geek Dinners News

In session one last week, we covered the following:

Topic: What Am *I* Supposed to Talk About?

o   Finding your voice

o   Coming up with topics/content/titles

o   Building a story from your content

I wanted to post a few references in case they might be useful to others.  I sent these in an e-mail to the training attendees, but wanted to post them here in case people want to add additional resources.

Books:

• Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
• Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte
• Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson
• The Exceptional Presenter by Timothy Koegel
• Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins by Annette Simmons

               

Podcasts:

• Quick and Dirty Tips: The Public Speaker: http://publicspeaker.quickanddirtytips.com/
• The Contrary Public Speaker: http://www.thecontrarypublicspeaker.com/podcast.asp
• Toastcaster Speakcast for ToastMasters: http://toastcaster.podbean.com/
• Communication Steroids: http://www.communicationsteroids.com/  

And I saw this float across Twitter this evening & loved it: http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2009/02/20_tips_better_conference_speaking/

 Any other resources you have?  Post them in the comments, please.