Category: Lady Conference Speaker
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Lady Conference Speaker: Presenter roulette
You deserve to feel like wherever you’re speaking supports you and your talk. Hopefully they tell you up front what they expect, or send you videos, or give you practice time. But if they don’t, I promise it’s reasonable to want to know ahead of time what will happen.
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Lady Conference Speaker: Story Arcs
The trick to telling a story is to tell people what reward they are going to get for following the story up front, so they are incentivized to follow along.
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Lady Conference Speaker: AI and presentations
I just got back from 2 weeks across 3 events, and I have a lot of thoughts about how AI* is showing up in conference presentations. * [for these purposes, let’s define “AI” as the umbrella term for LLMs, generative tools, text-to-image generators, automatic prompts and suggestions from tools, and pretty much anything but “intelligence”.…
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The new normal of staffing, conferences, and work
We have to change how we think about staffing and add in a lot of expensive redundancy. I thought about this originally in the context of in-person events, but it’s honestly true for every part of work and life. We have to change how we do planning and team coordination—not because we’re remote, but because…
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Lady Conference Speaker: Home Studio Edition
This is the post about setting up a home studio that I wish I had been able to read before setting up my home studio.
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Semantic meaning is everywhere
Semantic labeling could make our world better, if we valued it. Even our conference slides.
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Lady Conference Speaker: Now More Than Ever
Learn about being an MC, running a panel, and engaging in banter
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Lady Conference Speaker: What to Wear to a Webinar
Well, folks, it looks like it’s going to be a while before we need to think about packing strategies, standing on physical stages, or managing afterparty politics. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have some things to consider! I’m currently attending an online conference, and I have several more scheduled, and this is just how…
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Tea, Not Coffee: DevRel During a Pandemic
I go to conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, and there’s a slightly hilarious thing that happens at morning caffeine break. Someone from the UK will walk up to the hot drink station and register bafflement, because there’s not hot water to make tea. Also our tea bags are pretty substandard, and there might…