{"id":836,"date":"2009-05-14T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:18:50","slug":"another_presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/another_presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Another presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI held a presentation again today, jointly with a colleague, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nastan.se\/\">a conference<\/a> organized by Konsultbolag1. (Ours is the last talk on the programme. I know my name isn&rsquo;t there; the initial plan was that someone else would do this but I stepped in instead.) We spoke for 40 minutes, in front of ~60 people. I&rsquo;m starting to think that I should do more of this: I enjoyed it even more than I anticipated, and got better feedback than expected.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nObservations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nI need to feel comfortable with the content and the presentation materials, but once I have that, and a rough idea of what I want to say about each point, further preparation is not useful to me. Some people rehearse and memorize individual phrases they intend to use. I sometimes try that, thinking of good ways of expressing things, but when I&rsquo;m standing there on the stage that all disappears, flies right out of my brain, and I end up improvising anyway.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSurprisingly many people deliver presentations without thinking through what they want to achieve. What is the purpose? What should the audience know or think or want or do after hearing your presentation? How does each page work towards that aim?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nYou don&rsquo;t need to be a leading-edge expert in order to deliver a useful talk. You just need to know more than your audience, and know your limitations.\n<\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I held a presentation again today, jointly with a colleague, at a conference organized by Konsultbolag1. (Ours is the last talk on the programme. I know my name isn&rsquo;t there; the initial plan was that someone else would do this but I stepped in instead.) We spoke for 40 minutes, in front of ~60 people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[194,207,172],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observing_the_self","category-career","tag-agile","tag-conference","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}