Duncan Yellowlees 🎓💬Opening your talk?
Skip the waffle. No one cares where you work or how many awards you've worked on.
Grab attention with a hook like, a question, or a bold statement, then get straight to the good stuff.
Remeber - useful AND Interesting
Mark Dominus@d_yellowlees @pozorvlak I agree 100%. Back in 2002 I gave a conference talk about how to give a three-hour conference tutorial and I said that the biggest mistake people made that was related to the content of the talk was to include a long introduction before getting to the point.
https://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/notes.html#sl-12