Brendan’s list of dos and don’ts (mostly don’ts) from his years of conference speaking.
I had the great pleasure of finally meeting Hui Jing when Mozilla invited me along to Singapore to speak at their developer roadshow. Hui Jing is speaking at each one of the events on the roadshow, and documenting the journey here.
She’s being very modest about her talk: it was superb! Entertaining and informative in equal measure, delivered with gusto. Seriously, frontend conference organisers, try to get Hui Jing to speak about CSS at your event—you won’t regret it.
Charlotte outlines the process she used in creating her talk at Dot York. It was a real joy to see it come together.
Continuing the topic of public speaking, Jenn has a really good technique for figuring out how to arrange the pieces of your talk without getting bogged down in designing slides.
Lena’s in-depth run-down of how she puts together a conference talk. If you’re new to public speaking, this is well worth reading.
Meri has created a wiki where would-be speakers can get advice and mentoring from established speakers. I don't know if I'm established but I'm offering my services.
No conference talks this year, but three conferences I’m hosting.
Categorised hyperlinks that have been condensed into my new talk for An Event Apart.
The difference between hosting a conference and speaking at a conference.
The bittersweet feeling of finishing something you’ve been working on for quite a while.
Less like preparing to give a speech and more like making a short film.