Re: [CODE4LIB] conf presenters: a kind request

2013-02-05 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
If your university or any local professional groups have brown bag lunches with presentations, or anything informal and about the same amount of time as the conference presentation, then you can ask the group if you can do a dry run there. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:54 AM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] conf presenters: a kind request

2013-02-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote: If your university or any local professional groups have brown bag lunches with presentations, or anything informal and about the same amount of time as the conference presentation, then you can ask the group if you can do a dry run there.

[CODE4LIB] conf presenters: a kind request

2013-02-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
We are all very excited about the conference next week, to speak to our peers and to hear what our peers have to say! I would like to suggest that those presenting be considerate to your audience, and actually prepare your talk in advance! You may think you can get away with making some

Re: [CODE4LIB] conf presenters: a kind request

2013-02-04 Thread Bill Dueber
I'm gonna add to this briefly, and probably a bit less tactfully than Jonathan :-) - My number-one complaint about past presentations: Don't have slides we can't read. You probably can't read this, but... isn't a helpful thing to hear during a presentation. Make it legible, or figure out

Re: [CODE4LIB] conf presenters: a kind request

2013-02-04 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Bill Dueber wrote: [trimmed (and agreed with all of that)] As Jonathan said: this is a great, great audience. We're all forgiving, we're all interested, we're all eager to lean new things and figure out how to apply them to our own situations. We love to hear