On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:03:23AM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > G'day everyone, > > You are invited to join us in a talk by Paul Fenwick about Presentation Mind > Control - how to make other people think your talk is much better than it > really > is. Come and learn some great tips on how to improve your presentations.
Hi Jacinta, thanks for arranging this talk and for inviting SLUGgers; it was a very interesting presentation and it was good to meet some of the local Perl geeks. Paul is a geek, and his presentation was for geeks. It had enough random diagrams of brain parts and lego to entertain all the big and little kids in the room. It was as much about how to clearly explain technical concepts as about how to keep people's attention. It certainly wasn't about how to make sales pitches, motivate or otherwise deceive people. Afterwards (as was mentioned in the announcement) there was a technical talk about best practices for Perl programming. After that we all chatted over some games of pool, and lots of exchanging of contact details between the Perl and SLUG crowds went on. It was a good opportunity for like-minded geeks from different groups to meet up. cheers, Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
