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Dirty Tricks of Presentors

Posted by Hemos on from the well-done-good-sir dept.

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."

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  1. Rule #1.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    Right Apple?

  2. Tip Number 1 by ziriyab · · Score: 5, Funny
    Don't have typos in your title

    Examples: "Dirty Tricks of Presentors"

    1. Re:Tip Number 1 by Lac · · Score: 4, Funny

      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?

  3. Reminds me of Jim Blinn by Stiletto · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. similarly... by ToLu+the+Happy+Furby · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  5. they should go the way of booths... by bilbobuggins · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.