Public Speaking Resources

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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.

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Resources (🇧🇷)
History & Acknowledgments (🇧🇷)
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Contributing

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

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

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Resources

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

General
Finding a Conference
Proposing Talks
Rejections
Writing presentations
Presenting talks
Tools
Other

General

🎥 Speaker Training Workshop by VM Brasseur
Advice for new speakers by VM Brasseur
7 best practices for giving a conference talk by VM Brasseur
5 public speaking resolutions for 2019 by VM Brasseur
A Tactical Guide to Effective Public Speaking for Marketing, Content and Tech Events by Ronell Smith
Public Speaking by Dr. Keith B. Jenkins, RIT (edX course)
Introduction to Public Speaking by Matt McGarrity, University of Washington (edX course)
speaking.io: Thoughts on public speaking by Zach Holman
Why you should give technical talks by Daphne Rouw
The art of the keynote by Guy Kawasaki
A collection of awesome resources about public speaking by Matteo Figus
5 Ways to Leave Your Fears Behind and Learn to Love Public Speaking by Kathryn Minshew
Propose, Prepare, Present by Alistair Croll
Helpful talk tips! by Paul Ford
Doing a TED Talk: The Full Story by Tim Urban
How to start speaking (in tech conferences) by Karen Meep
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 by Catt Small
🎥 How to get started with technical public speaking! 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 by Jer Thorpe
📚 Demystifying Public Speaking by Lara Hogan
5 years behind the mic by Heidi Waterhouse
Preparing Talks is Scary by Helen V. Holmes
🎧 The Michael Jordan of Tech Talks by Kim Crayton
On Conference Speaking by Hynek Schlawack
What You Need to Know About Speaking at Conferences by Ashe Dryden
Don't send proposals at the last moment by Damir Svrtan
How to be an Android Expert by Chiu-Ki Chan (scroll down to Call for Proposals section of this post)
Three things you don’t need to become a speaker by Karolina Szczur
Who am I to give this talk by Thomas Ballinger
How public speaking made me a better leader (and vice-versa) by Yash Prabhu
🇨🇳 新手演讲：走上演讲台的第一步作者：Ivan Eye
🇹🇼 學術會議英文社交演講技巧作者：Dr Fiona Hu
Why I Speak at Developer Conferences by Heidi Waterhouse
What I've learned after giving 100 talks by Zeno Rocha
Technical Speaker Starter Kit by Cory House
5 Essential Ingredients for an Awesome Tech Talk by Dave Neal
give actionable takeaways by Bridget Kromhout
The Portland Experience; Confessions of a First Time Speaker @DevOpsDaysPDX by Jason Grimes
A problem like public speaking by Maria Neumayer
🎥 Why you should pursue public speaking and how to get there 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 and similar sites that might be interested in hearing your talks, as well!

How To Get Speaking Engagements 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.

Opensource.com Events Calendar
Papercall.io, tech with a DevOps focus
WikiCFP, primarily academic and industry * conferences
Central US Community Tech Events
CFP Time
Conference Radar
KDNuggets, primarily data-focused conferences
IT CFP List - List of IT conferences Call For Papers, changes are also published via Twitter @ItCfpList
CFP Land
Techmeme Events List
conferCal
Design Conferences UX, UI, Product & Interaction Design Conferences

Mailing lists with tech CFPs

~~Technically Speaking, emphasizes inclusive conferences with stipends. Archive up to end of 2018 when it stopped publishing.

Proposing talks

🎥 Writing a great conference talk submission by VM Brasseur
Community Pulse: How to Submit the Best CFP of Your Life (And What to Do When It Gets Accepted) by VM Brasseur and the Community Pulse Podcast Team
Proposing a Compelling Fluent Talk by Simon St. Laurent
Sample Proposals for O'Reilly Conferences By O'Reilly Media
🎥 10 Quick Tips for More Effective Conference Submissions and Presentations by Matthew McCullough
How to craft a successful OpenStack Summit proposal by Nicole Martinelli
How to Write a Conference Talk Proposal by Rikki Endsley
Three tips for getting a talk accepted at Fluent… or any other technology conference, tbh. by Ben Vinegar
How to Write a Successful Conference Proposal by Karolina Szczur
How to write a good submission by CodeMash (scroll down to the relevant & very helpful section of the page)
Writing winning abstracts by Marcy Sutton
Finding Your Killer Talk Idea by Rachel Nabors
SpeakerLine, 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 by Julia Ferraioli
Your Abstract Sucks by Clark Sell
🎥 CFP Advice by Raquel Vélez and Sarah Mei
🎥 How to Write a Conference Proposal by Chiu-Ki Chan
What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing by Sarah Mei
A Process for Writing an Abstract by Cate Huston
How to come up with conference proposal ideas by Lucy Bain
Finding Your Killer Talk Idea by Rachel Nabors
Writing Conference Proposals by Rebecca Murphey
How to write a compelling proposal by the We Are All Awesome Blog authors
Is Your Conference Proposal Good Enough? by Raquel Vélez
Addendum About Conference Proposals by Chris Williams
Don’t Fear the CFP by Matt Stratton

Writing a bio

How to Write a Personal Biography for a Conference by Elle Smith
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 by Danielle Barnes

Tools

Slides

Demos

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 A tool for generating images of pleasantly sized and highlighted code for slides.

Other

How do conference speakers get compensated by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
10 ways for a conference to upset their speakers by Troy Hunt
Strategies For Attracting More of the “Underrepresented” Onto the Conference Stage by Kim Crayton
LADY SPEAKER SMALL TALK by Heidi Waterhouse
How To Ask To Get Paid To Speak by Seb Lee-Delisle
A Formula For Speaking Fees by Jenn Lukas
How to Land Your First Paid Speaking Gig by Dorie Clark
🎥 Carrying On: Tech Travel Lessons by Kara Sowles

History & acknowledgments

This collection of resources started as a bibliography for a public speaking tutorial written & presented by VM (Vicky) Brasseur and Josh Berkus.

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. All contributors retain copyright to their contributions to the work.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please see LICENSE.md for more information.

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