Dirty Tricks of Presentors

A reader writes "Perl expert Mark Jason Dominus gave a great talk last month in St. Louis on how to give a good conference presentation. There's nothing specific to Perl, and a lot of people said they thought it was the most useful talk at the conference even though they didn't think they'd be doing a conference presenation any time soon. Mark also wrote up some notes that explain the parts he forgot to put on the slides."

Comments

I for one, was disappointed.

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought the talk would be on underwater treasures. Needless to say, with the scuba gear I was wearing and the oxygen tank, I stood out from the rest of the crowd.

I did get quite a few offers from the ladies to examine their bearded clams though.

Cowabunga.

Rule #1..

[Anonymous Coward]

..don't bar your fans from coming to your presentation.

Right Apple?

First Tip

[jonman_d]

First tip on giving a good presentation:

Don't have the server with your presentation materials linked on slashdot, for it will not last five minutes into the conference.

Re:Rule #2..

[Cyclone66]

If your software sucks show a video or risk getting a BSOD.

Tip Number 1

[ziriyab]

Don't have typos in your title

Examples: "Dirty Tricks of Presentors"

Re:Tip Number 1

[Lac]

Don't have typos in your title

Would it be appropriate to point out that it only qualifies as a typo if he actually knows how to spell it?

Reminds me of Jim Blinn

[Stiletto]

Haha.. Kind of reminds me of Jim Blinn's Things I Hope Not to See or Hear at SIGGRAPH. Read it for a chuckle..

similarly...

[ToLu the Happy Furby]

Peter Norvig on the benefits of the Microsoft Powerpoint Autocontent Wizard.

they should go the way of booths...

[bilbobuggins]

that's right, I want Presentation Babes.
and lots of em too.

sheesh, for a room full of frustrated geeks you'd think this would've been obvious.