Awesome Speaking – Massive Collection of Resources

Blog Posts

• 8 Classic Storytelling Techniques for Engaging Presentations – by Ffion Lindsay
• Block Your Talk – by Christina Wodtke
• How To Get Speaking Engagements – by Sam Jarman
• Nine Secrets to Powerful Public Speaking – by Julian Treasure
• Presenting is Performance – by Christina Wodtke
• Speaker Style Bingo: 10 Presentation Anti-Patterns – by Troy Hunt
• Some Thoughts On Doing Conference Sessions – by Derick Bailey
• How To Prepare And Write A Tech Conference Talk – by Lena Reinhard

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.

• Callback Women – Sharing CFPs via Twitter.
• PaperCall – Place to manage your talks and submissions.
• IT CFP List – List of IT conferences Call For Papers, changes are also published via Twitter @ItCfpList.
• Tulu.la – Curated list of tech events and open CFPs. Friendly community and speaker support champions. Community-driven.

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
• Public Speaking – A collection of resources on presenting at technical conferences by VM Brasseur

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]
• How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed – by Daniel Levitin [12:20]
• The surprising secret to speaking with confidence – by Caroline Goyder [18:55]
• Bringing Your Full Voice to Life – by Barbara McAfee [19:07]
• How I Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking – by Danish Dhamani [08:36]
• How to speak so that people want to listen – by Julian Treasure [09:58]

Websites

• Speaking.io – Tips for preparing your talk and get ready to deliver it
• awesome-talks – a collection of awesome tech talks
• 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.
• Irongeek – A collection of information security talks.
• Words to Time – Calculates how long a speech will take to present based on the number of words.