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A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences.
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# Public Speaking Resources



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> * [🇧🇷 pt-br](./translations/pt-br)



This repository contains an ever-growing and -evolving list of resources for public speaking. The primary focus is presenting at technical conferences, but many of the lessons here can be applied to many different public speaking events & audiences.



* [Contributing](#contributing) ([🇧🇷](./translations/pt-br#contribuindo))

* [Resources](#resources) ([🇧🇷](./translations/pt-br#artigos))

* [History & Acknowledgments](#history--acknowledgments) ([🇧🇷](./translations/pt-br#historia))

* [Licensing](#licensing) ([🇧🇷](./translations/pt-br#licença))



## Contributing



Have a public speaking resource you'd like to contribute? Thank you! We love contributors!



Please have a look at [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for all your contributing needs. :-)



All contributors to and participants in this project (including the [IRC channel](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23public_speaking)) agree to abide by the [Code of Conduct](./CODEOFCONDUCT.md).



Please [contact us](https://github.com/vmbrasseur/Public_Speaking/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#for-more-help) if you have any questions about the project or contributing to it.



## Resources



Browse below or click here to jump directly to a section:



* [General](#general)

* [Finding a Conference](#finding-a-conference)

* [Proposing Talks](#proposing-talks)

* [Rejections](#rejections)

* [Writing presentations](#writing-presentations)

* [Presenting talks](#presenting-talks)

* [Tools](#tools)

* [Other](#other)



### General



* [🎥 Speaker Training Workshop](https://archive.org/details/devworld2017-speakertraining) by VM Brasseur

* [Advice for new speakers](http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2017/09/11/advice-for-new-speakers/) by VM Brasseur

* [7 best practices for giving a conference talk](https://opensource.com/article/17/9/7-best-practices-giving-conference-talk) by VM Brasseur

* [5 public speaking resolutions for 2019](https://opensource.com/article/19/1/public-speaking-resolutions) by VM Brasseur

* [A Tactical Guide to Effective Public Speaking for Marketing, Content and Tech Events](https://ronellsmith.com/blog/a-tactical-guide-to-effective-public-speaking-for-marketing-content-and-tech-events/) by Ronell Smith

* [Public Speaking](https://www.edx.org/learn/public-speaking/rochester-institute-of-technology-public-speaking) by Dr. Keith B. Jenkins, RIT (edX course)

* [Introduction to Public Speaking](https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-public-speaking-uwashingtonx-comm220x2) by Matt McGarrity, University of Washington (edX course)

* [speaking.io: Thoughts on public speaking](http://speaking.io/) by Zach Holman

* [Why you should give technical talks](http://daphsta.github.io/ruby%20learn%20self-development/2015/01/12/why-you-should-give-technical-talks.html) by Daphne Rouw

* [The art of the keynote](http://guykawasaki.com/the-art-of-the-keynote/) by Guy Kawasaki

* [A collection of awesome resources about public speaking](https://github.com/matteofigus/awesome-speaking) by Matteo Figus

* [5 Ways to Leave Your Fears Behind and Learn to Love Public Speaking](https://www.themuse.com/advice/5-ways-to-leave-your-fears-behind-and-learn-to-love-public-speaking) by Kathryn Minshew

* [Propose, Prepare, Present](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027096.do) by Alistair Croll

* [Helpful talk tips!](https://ftrain.medium.com/helpful-talk-tips-5347ea7c2745) by Paul Ford

* [Doing a TED Talk: The Full Story](http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing-a-ted-talk-the-full-story.html) by Tim Urban

* [How to start speaking (in tech conferences)](https://medium.com/@karen_meep/how-to-start-speaking-in-tech-conferences-f64a9f3a84a6#.ev7mefjfq) by Karen Meep

* [An Open Letter To Speakers](http://scottberkun.com/2011/an-open-letter-to-speakers/) by Scott Berkun

* [How to Become a Public Speaker in 1 Year: Gain the confidence to engage audiences on and offstage](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4HX7ZJ) by Catt Small

* [🎥 How to get started with technical public speaking!](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VIDEOHowToGetStartedWithTechnicalPublicSpeaking.aspx) by Scott Hanselman, Kendra Havens, Maria Naggaga Nakanwagi, Kasey Uhlenhuth, and Donovan Brown

* [The Three Things I’ve Learned From Eighteen Years of Public Speaking](https://medium.com/@blprnt/the-three-things-i-learned-from-eighteen-years-of-public-speaking-875f01178902) by Jer Thorpe

* [📚 Demystifying Public Speaking](https://abookapart.com/products/demystifying-public-speaking) by Lara Hogan

* [5 years behind the mic](https://medium.com/@wiredferret/5-years-behind-the-mic-7ed8f2d25222) by Heidi Waterhouse

* [Preparing Talks](https://helenvholmes.com/writing/preparing-talks/) by Helen V. Holmes

* [🎧 The Michael Jordan of Tech Talks](http://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/the-michael-jordan-of-tech-talks) by Kim Crayton

* [On Conference Speaking](https://hynek.me/articles/speaking/) by Hynek Schlawack

* [What You Need to Know About Speaking at Conferences](https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-speaking-at-conferences) by Ashe Dryden

* [Don't send proposals at the last moment](https://2017.webcampzg.org/news/dont-send-proposals-last-moment/) by Damir Svrtan

* [Three things you don’t need to become a speaker](https://medium.com/@fox/three-things-you-dont-need-to-become-a-speaker-3c65b73af5cb) by Karolina Szczur

* [Who am I to give this talk](http://ballingt.com/wanna-do-a-talk/) by Thomas Ballinger

* [How public speaking made me a better leader (and vice-versa)](https://speakerdeck.com/yprabhu/elaconf2017) by Yash Prabhu

* [:taiwan: 學術會議英文社交演講技巧](https://www.cantabenglish.com/blog/conference_paper_presentation_skill) 作者：Dr Fiona Hu

* [Why I Speak at Developer Conferences](https://medium.com/@wiredferret/why-i-speak-at-developer-conferences-8017c708ba25) by Heidi Waterhouse

* [What I've learned after giving 100 talks](https://medium.com/@zenorocha/what-ive-learned-after-giving-100-talks-8f175654e945) by Zeno Rocha

* [Technical Speaker Starter Kit](https://github.com/coryhouse/speaker-starter-kit) by Cory House

* [5 Essential Ingredients for an Awesome Tech Talk](http://reverentgeek.com/5-essential-ingredients-for-an-awesome-tech-talk/) by Dave Neal

* [give actionable takeaways](https://bridgetkromhout.com/blog/give-actionable-takeaways/) by Bridget Kromhout

* [The Portland Experience; Confessions of a First Time Speaker @DevOpsDaysPDX](https://medium.com/@jasongrimes/the-portland-experience-confessions-of-a-first-time-speaker-devopsdayspdx-ceed50325fe3) by Jason Grimes

* [A problem like public speaking](https://medium.com/a-problem-like-maria/a-problem-like-public-speaking-3859b20b2d00) by Maria Neumayer

* [🎥 Why you should pursue public speaking and how to get there](https://youtu.be/pQfNB9EJ7Do) by Yenny Cheung



### Finding a Conference



Tech conferences are not the only way to do public speaking. You can find

local users groups on [Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/) and similar sites that

might be interested in hearing your talks, as well!



* [How To Get Speaking Engagements](https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-speaking-engagements-c7fdebf8416d) by Sam Jarman



#### Aggregators of CFPs and Conferences



A CFP is a "Call For Papers", "Call For Proposals", or "Call For

Participation" depending on the conference.



* [Papercall.io](https://www.papercall.io/cfps), tech with a DevOps focus

* [WikiCFP](http://wikicfp.com/cfp/), primarily academic and industry * conferences

* [CFP Time](https://cfptime.org)

* [KDNuggets](https://www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/), primarily data-focused conferences

* [Techmeme Events List](https://www.techmeme.com/events)



#### Mailing lists with tech CFPs



### Proposing talks



* [🎥 Writing a great conference talk submission](https://archive.org/details/dodseattle2019-cfp-training) by VM Brasseur

* [Community Pulse: How to Submit the Best CFP of Your Life (And What to Do When It Gets Accepted)](http://communitypulse.io/23-cfps/) by VM Brasseur and the Community Pulse Podcast Team

* [🎥 10 Quick Tips for More Effective Conference Submissions and Presentations](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJz4JJIchaY&feature=youtu.be) by Matthew McCullough

* [How to craft a successful OpenStack Summit proposal](http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/successful-openstack-summit-talk/) by Nicole Martinelli 

* [How to Write a Conference Talk Proposal](http://rikkiendsley.com/?p=390) by Rikki Endsley

* [Three tips for getting a talk accepted at Fluent… or any other technology conference, tbh.](https://medium.com/@bentlegen/three-tips-for-getting-a-talk-accepted-at-fluent-9eff841efc54#.uwoh77m3m) by Ben Vinegar

* [How to Write a Successful Conference Proposal](https://medium.com/@fox/how-to-write-a-successful-conference-proposal-4461509d3e32) by Karolina Szczur

* [How to write a good submission](http://web.archive.org/web/20170612205311/http://www.codemash.org/call-speakers/) by CodeMash (scroll down to the relevant & very helpful section of the page)

* [Writing winning abstracts](https://marcysutton.com/writing-winning-talk-abstracts/) by Marcy Sutton

* [SpeakerLine](http://speakerline.io/speakers), built by Nadia Odunayo to showcase speakers' proposals and timelines to demystify the CFP process and help new speakers get started.

* [Preparing a talk: before you start ](https://blog.juliaferraioli.com/2017/09/preparing-talk-before-you-start.html) by Julia Ferraioli

* [Your Abstract Sucks](https://medium.com/that-conference/your-abstract-sucks-21f39d61b617) by Clark Sell

* [🎥 CFP Advice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHIHgauh000) by Raquel Vélez and Sarah Mei

* [🎥 How to Write a Conference Proposal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ESAV51B9VY) by Chiu-Ki Chan

* [What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing](http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/) by Sarah Mei

* [A Process for Writing an Abstract](https://cate.blog/2015/11/27/a-process-for-writing-an-abstract/) by Cate Huston

* [How to come up with conference proposal ideas](https://lucybain.com/blog/2016/conference-proposal-ideas/) by Lucy Bain

* [Finding Your Killer Talk Idea](https://medium.com/@rachelnabors/finding-your-killer-talk-idea-3a96ab33ed8f) by Rachel Nabors

* [Writing Conference Proposals](https://medium.com/ladies-in-tech/writing-conference-proposals-994a710f03b1) by Rebecca Murphey

* [How to write a compelling proposal](http://weareallaweso.me/for_speakers/how-to-write-a-compelling-proposal.html) by the We Are All Awesome Blog authors

* [Is Your Conference Proposal Good Enough?](https://web.archive.org/web/20180625110929/http://rckbt.me/2014/01/conference-proposals/) by Raquel Vélez

* [Addendum About Conference Proposals](https://www.voodootikigod.com/an-addendum-about-conference-proposals/) by Chris Williams

* [Don’t Fear the CFP](https://medium.com/@mattstratton/dont-fear-the-cfp-e8272910972b) by Matt Stratton



### Writing a bio



* [How to Write a Personal Biography for a Conference](http://work.chron.com/write-personal-biography-conference-3108.html) by Elle Smith

* [How to Write an Academic Bio for Conferences](https://phdlife.warwick.ac.uk/2017/02/01/how-to-write-an-academic-bio-for-conferences/) by Sophie Shorland (most tips here apply to technical conferences as well as academic)

* [🎥 Crafting Your Biography](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPnvXlVj7w) by Danielle Barnes



### Rejections



* [Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected](https://web.archive.org/web/20221209090737/https://www.promptworks.com/blog/why-your-excellent-talk-was-rejected) by Sarah Gray

* [WHY YOU SHOULD AIM FOR 100 REJECTIONS A YEAR](http://lithub.com/why-you-should-aim-for-100-rejections-a-year/) by Kim Liao

* [On conference proposal rejections](https://code.likeagirl.io/on-conference-proposal-rejections-205f7fead68) by Tracy Osborn

* [On collecting no's](http://glasnt.com/blog/2017/04/11/on-collecting-nos.html) by Katie McLaughlin

* [🎥 #speakerlife lightning talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-m-P4kGvr8) ([slides](https://www.slideshare.net/genehackdotorg/speakerlife)) by John Anderson

* [Rejection & Revision: On Improving Conference Proposals](https://dev.to/alainakafkes/rejection--revision-on-improving-conference-proposals-3fk) by Alaina Kafkes



### Writing presentations



* [slidelint](https://github.com/enkidulan/slidelint): Checks for common problems in presentation slides!

* [Speaker style bingo: 10 presentation anti-patterns](https://www.troyhunt.com/speaker-style-bingo-10-presentation/) by Troy Hunt

* [10 Quick Tips for More Effective Conference Submissions and Presentations](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJz4JJIchaY&feature=youtu.be) video by Matthew McCullough

* [The Secret Structure of Great Talks](https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks) by Nancy Duarte

* [3 Steps to Better Presentation Visuals](https://hbr.org/video/4642346287001/3-steps-to-better-presentation-visuals) by Harvard Business Review

* [Presentation Zen](http://www.presentationzen.com/) by Garr Reynolds

* [The Shapes of Stories](http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-thesis-rejected-by-u-chicago.html) by Kurt Vonnegut

* [A white-label slide deck](http://alicebartlett.co.uk/blog/how-to-do-ok-at-slides) by Alice Bartlett

* [Your slides do matter](https://daveyshafik.com/archives/70053-your-slides-do-matter.html) by Davey Shafik

* [Experienced speakers discuss how they prepare their talks](http://neilb.org/2016/10/30/preparing-a-talk.html) by Neil Bowers

* [A Checklist for More Persuasive Presentations](https://hbr.org/2016/10/a-checklist-for-more-persuasive-presentations) by Dorie Clark

* [How to prepare and write a tech conference talk](http://wunder.schoenaberselten.com/2016/02/16/how-to-prepare-and-write-a-tech-conference-talk/) by Lena Reinhard

* [A Public Speaking Experiment: Blank Slides](https://medium.com/upday-devs/a-public-speaking-experiment-blank-slides-c2fc09289825#.z94mgux2f) by Florina Muntenescu

* [How I Create Talks](https://michele.io/how-i-create-talks/) by Michele Titolo

* [My presentation workflow and challenges](http://larahogan.me/blog/my-presentation-workflow-and-challenges/) by Lara Hogan

* [🎥 Top Tips for Terrible Tech Talks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osVpqz10UP8) by Chet Haase

* [The Art of Slide Design](https://missgeeky.com/2017/08/04/the-art-of-slide-design/) by Melinda Seckington ([🎥 video of this content](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gwEvQah-s))

* [Preparing a talk: writing your talk](https://blog.juliaferraioli.com/2017/10/preparing-talk-writing-your-talk.html) by Julia Ferraioli

* [Choosing Colors for Data Visualization](https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/b-eye/choosing_colors.pdf)



### Presenting talks



* [How to give a great talk, the lazy way](http://dberkholz.com/2015/04/20/how-to-give-a-great-talk-the-lazy-way/) by Donnie Berkholz

* [Give a Great Tech Talk 2](https://github.com/jberkus/ggtt2) by Josh Berkus

* [How To Give a Great Ignite Talk](http://scottberkun.com/2009/how-to-give-a-great-ignite-talk/) by Scott Berkun

* [Women Who Code panel discussion on preparing for and speaking at technical conferences](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE67bo7dmbY) (video)

* [4 Secrets to Giving a Speech Worthy of a Standing Ovation](http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/253040) by Baron Schwartz

* [10 things you should NEVER say during presentations](http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2013/09/12/10-things-you-should-never-say-during-presentations-2/) by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

* [7 tips for learning how to give a technical talk](https://opensource.com/life/16/9/7-tips-learning-how-give-technical-talk) by Ala Hino

* [Speech Anxiety for Game Developers](http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-04-11-speech-anxiety-for-game-developers) by Brie Code

* [Preparing For Your First Talk](https://www.yprabhu.com/2015/08/how-i-prepared-for-my-first-big.html) by Yash Prabhu

* [Speaking and Nerves](https://cate.blog/2017/06/15/speaking-and-nerves/) by Cate Huston

* [Tradecraft of Public Speaking](https://moundalexis.com/v2/2015/04/06/speaking-tech.html) by Alex Moundalexis

* [Public Speaking for Nerds](http://www.mechanicalgirl.com/post/public-speaking-nerds/) by Barbara Shaurette

* [Public Speaking without Barfing on Your Shoes](https://github.com/reverentgeek/public-speaking) by David Neal

* [Preparing a talk: presenting](https://blog.juliaferraioli.com/2017/10/preparing-talk-presenting.html) by Julia Ferraioli

* [How to make your OpenStack Summit talk a big success](http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-make-your-openstack-summit-talk-a-big-success/) by Anne Bertucio

* [Presenting presenting](https://medium.com/@chethaase/presenting-presenting-17233fa13aa5) by Chet Haase

* [🇨🇳 向柴静学习21个演讲技巧](https://www.digitaling.com/articles/13764.html) 来源：培训经理指南

* [🇨🇳 如何做一场像TED一样精彩的技术演讲](http://www.offbye.com/2016/06/29/%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E5%81%9A%E4%B8%80%E5%9C%BA%E5%83%8FTed%E4%B8%80%E6%A0%B7%E7%B2%BE%E5%BD%A9%E7%9A%84%E6%8A%80%E6%9C%AF%E6%BC%94%E8%AE%B2/) 作者：西涛

* [In which the Floor is open](http://wondermark.com/c1393/) by David Malki !

* [🎥 Your Perfect Tech Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzVr_nsKoZs) by Saron Yitbarek

* [🎥 Intro to Public Speaking: The day of your talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2j6-pjfvuo) by Jessica Rose

* [11 Things You Should Never Say During A Presentation](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/11-things-you-should-never-say-during-presentation-bernard-marr/?trackingId=JAocH5gp5u9FgmZNQlxw%2FA%3D%3D) by Bernard Marr



### Tools



#### Slides



* [Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15575363)

* [4 Markdown-powered slide generators](https://opensource.com/article/18/5/markdown-slide-generators)

* [Deckset](https://www.deckset.com)

* [sent](https://tools.suckless.org/sent/)



#### Demos



* [demoshell](https://pypi.org/project/demoshell/) A simplified shell for live demonstrations. It always shows the command prompt at the top of the screen and pushes command output down instead of letting iscroll up.



#### Code



* [carbon.now.sh](https://carbon.now.sh/) A tool for generating images of pleasantly sized and highlighted code for slides.



### Other



* [How do conference speakers get compensated](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140731092421-4973136-how-do-conference-speakers-get-compensated) by Curtis "Ovid" Poe

* [10 ways for a conference to upset their speakers](https://www.troyhunt.com/10-ways-for-a-conference-to-upset-their-speakers/) by Troy Hunt

* [Strategies For Attracting More of the “Underrepresented” Onto the Conference Stage](https://medium.com/@KimCrayton1/strategies-for-attracting-more-of-the-underrepresented-onto-the-conference-stage-f6d34464f635) by Kim Crayton

* [LADY SPEAKER SMALL TALK](https://heidiwaterhouse.com/lady-speaker-small-talk/) by Heidi Waterhouse

* [How To Ask To Get Paid To Speak](https://seb.ly/2014/05/how-to-ask-to-get-paid-to-speak/) by Seb Lee-Delisle

* [A Formula For Speaking Fees](http://www.thenerdary.net/post/84544230452/a-formula-for-speaking-fees) by Jenn Lukas

* [How to Land Your First Paid Speaking Gig](https://hbr.org/2017/11/how-to-land-your-first-paid-speaking-gig) by Dorie Clark

* [🎥 Carrying On: Tech Travel Lessons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOs8hYJ8s-4&app=desktop) by Kara Sowles



## History & acknowledgments



This collection of resources started as a [bibliography](https://github.com/vmbrasseur/10stepprogram/blob/master/resources.md) for [a public speaking tutorial](https://github.com/vmbrasseur/10stepprogram) written & presented by [VM (Vicky) Brasseur](https://vmbrasseur.com) and [Josh Berkus](https://github.com/jberkus).



Since that tutorial, the collection continued to grow as Vicky located new resources to add to the list. While the collection was public, it was buried. This repository brings it out into the light and makes it easy for everyone to locate, use, and contribute to it.



Immense thanks due to Josh for helping build the initial collection of resources. Thank you, Josh!



## Licensing



While the individual works in this list each have their own copyright and licensing, this work itself is copyright [VM Brasseur](https://vmbrasseur.com). All contributors retain copyright to their contributions to the work.



Creative Commons License
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Please see [LICENSE.md](./LICENSE.md) for more information.