As I start to pack for my trip to Australia, I'm getting really excited about attending the SAGE-AU 2008 conference. I just got email with the preliminary registration numbers for my workshops (note: more people will sign up "day of"):
By the way... I've completely revamped the Time Management slides. Previously I've tweaked them between conferences. This time I took a hard look at what people found useful, didn't need, and the way I was presenting the information. I refocused the slides around the more streamlined version of "the cycle", dropped the parts that got the most yawns or "why would anyone want that?"-looks. I also made sure that the more entertaining parts were retained and are spread evenly throughout the presentation. As I learned from mjd's "Presentation Judo" talk says, "Your primary goal should be to entertain". Each slide should educate and entertain, but if you have to pick just one, choose to entertain: people are sitting in the same seat for 3 hours, they deserve nothing less.
Now I have to get back to packing. For the last few months any time I've thought of something to bring I wrote it on my todo list for August 6th. Packing is less stressful when you have confidence that you won't forget anything. Now I just have to fit it all in my luggage!
It's not too late to register for SAGE-AU 2008. I look forward to seeing you there!
- Interviewing/Hiring Technical People: 8 registrations
- Time Management for System Administrators: 31 registrations
- "Help! Everyone hates our IT Department!": 24 registrations
By the way... I've completely revamped the Time Management slides. Previously I've tweaked them between conferences. This time I took a hard look at what people found useful, didn't need, and the way I was presenting the information. I refocused the slides around the more streamlined version of "the cycle", dropped the parts that got the most yawns or "why would anyone want that?"-looks. I also made sure that the more entertaining parts were retained and are spread evenly throughout the presentation. As I learned from mjd's "Presentation Judo" talk says, "Your primary goal should be to entertain". Each slide should educate and entertain, but if you have to pick just one, choose to entertain: people are sitting in the same seat for 3 hours, they deserve nothing less.
Now I have to get back to packing. For the last few months any time I've thought of something to bring I wrote it on my todo list for August 6th. Packing is less stressful when you have confidence that you won't forget anything. Now I just have to fit it all in my luggage!
It's not too late to register for SAGE-AU 2008. I look forward to seeing you there!
