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A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public Speaking

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Speaking at Barcamp in Omaha has turned into something of a tradition for me. Even though we’ve been busy with a new baby and getting our house ready to sell, I made the foolhardy decision to keep the tradition alive this year.

I love Barcamp because there is a palpable, scrappy energy to the unconference format, and you can experiment with things you wouldn’t do at a more traditional conference. In that vein, I decided to take a risk—instead of giving a normal talk with normal slides and normal speaking, I thought that it would be fun to experiment in something that was almost performance art.

I crafted a presentation about public speaking in which I didn't say a single word aloud. In fact, I purposefully did the opposite of many of the best practices I knew about public speaking, including but not limited to the 10 tips outlined in the talk. Thus, the title "A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public Speaking."

The web-based presentation tool I used was created explicitly for this talk (you may recognize BigText) and it allowed me to do a few special things (break the rules) in a way that would have been much more difficult with traditional presentation software like Apple’s Keynote. I don't think I'll give away any more than that, have a look at the video below.

Watch on YouTube: A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public Speaking

There is an additional separate video that contains the Q&A from the talk. Sorry—some of the questions may be inaudible.

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Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 86 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Learn more about Zach »

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  1. Sara Soueidan

    Thank you, Zach <3

  2. Ryan No Seriously Wear a Mask Boone

    That is pretty freaking amazing, and inspirational to a noob speaker like myself.

  3. Zach Leatherman

    Well, dang, thanks again. 😊

  4. chantastic is trying real hard to stay away

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    11 Sep 2015
    I'd love to have access to that custom built presentation tool. And would pay for it as well :)
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