Know your content, respect your audience.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

#Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Presentations

#Photography #Panorama #BWCA #Canoe #Minnesota

Requiring learning objectives for conference presentations sucks. They leave no place for passion, changing worldviews, or evoking action.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/presentations/2010/12/why-requiring-learning-objectives-for-great-conference-presentations-sucks

Looking for a new way to create presentations?
Try https://sli.dev – a powerful, modern and open-source alternative to Reveal.js, made by @antfu (https://antfu.me)
Write your slides in Markdown, enhance with Vue.js, and hack everything

Speed vs complexity

In a talk, the trade-off of speed and complexity is a fine balance...

Fast + Complex = Overload
Slow + Simple = Patronising
Fast + Simple = Broad understanding
Slow + Complex = Deep understanding

One week until #btconf Düsseldorf invites you again to celebrate #inspiration, #knowledge and high quality #networking. And guess what: we still have a few tickets left. Join us! https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025/tickets

So many talks are just lists!

Here's all the things we did, all the papers published, all the grants won.

Much better to make a point! Have a key message, an agenda, something that the talk revolves around. Say something of note.

We all get nervous.

Presenting nerves appear because we fear the unknown/the unfamiliar.

Dry throat, hot face, queasy stomach all happen because of our fight or flight response to the unknown. This is why rehearsal matters - you are making the unknown known.

The best presenters have found their own style. It's not about being the perfect. The goal is an engaged audience, & there's a load of ways to achieve this.

One person's talk may rely on skills that you don't use much, and vice versa. We all have our own skill set.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations

Veckans Kodsnack är här: Fredrik snackar med @raniz om att skapa och hålla presentationer.
Lyssna där poddar finns, eller på https://kodsnack.se/639/ #podcast #publicSpeaking #presentations

Playing around with a hardware/software setup idea to record #presentations, #lectures, demos.

Initial test looks promising. I just need to find a way of recording audio in a better way.

Maybe I'll record my #PIM lecture and publish it as a series of videos on my #PeerTube channel...