awesome-speaking

A collection of awesome resources about public speaking. Please read the contributing guideline if you wish to contribute.

Blog Posts

• Speaker Style Bingo: 10 Presentation Anti-Patterns - by Troy Hunt
• Speaking Tips from a Grizzled Speaker - by Josh Holmes
• Some Thoughts On Doing Conference Sessions - by Derick Bailey

Books

• Propose, Prepare, Present - Free Ebook by Alistair Croll (O'Reilly)
• Presentation Patterns - by Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough, and Nate Schutta (Addison-Wesley)
• Presentation Zen Design - by Garr Reynolds. How to design your presentation.
• TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - by Chris Anderson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Start to finish guide to giving powerful talks.

CFP

List of Call of Paper sites and services.

• Call to Speakers - A list of open applications for conference talks. Get notified of new opportunities via a weekly newsletter, Twitter account, or RSS feed.
• Callback Women - Sharing CFPs via Twitter.
• Lanyrd Calls for Participations - A list of open CFP.
• PaperCall - Place to manage your talks and submissions.
• WikiCFP aggregates academic science and technology CFPs

Clubs/Organizations

• Toastmasters - An international non-profit educational organizations that facilitates the creation and growth of clubs around the world. The goal of the clubs is to improve the leadership and public speaking skills of members.

Miscellaneous

• Awesome - A collection of awesome things curated by Sindre Sorhus
• Awesome Community - A collection of awesome communities curated by Peter Kokot

Videos

• The Talk on Talks - by Zach Holman [36:26]
• 10 Quick Tips for More Effective Conference Submissions and Presentations - by Matthew McCullough [30:07]
• How to Talk to Developers - by Ben Orenstein [47:37]

Websites

• Speaking.io - Tips for preparing your talk and get ready to deliver it
• awesome-talks - a collection of awesome tech talks
• Nextspeaker.io - web application for events schedule
• We Are All Awesome! - a collection of interesting posts about speaking, preparing, motivation, etc
• HelpMeAbstract - Get feedback from veteran speakers before you submit your talk.

LICENSE

MIT