Dear speaker: If I see you mention that you “write a talk”, my assumption is you will read it instead of presenting, which means you’ll bore your audience to death.

Oct 31, 2018 · 9:27 PM UTC

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I’ve recently seen more and more conference speakers read from a prepared script. If you ask for my advice as to when this is appropriate, my answer is “never”, with a possible exception for your gramdmother’s 80th birthday
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Even more annoyingly, I’ve seen speakers read prepared talks from a script where I’m 100% certain they would have been able to just “wing it” to much better results
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Replying to @stilkov
While I agree that a presentation should not be read, I expect written talks to well structured and to have better slides. I have been at to many talks without a clear structure, with a speaker hopping back and forth and talking much longer than planed.
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Replying to @stilkov
Do you read code out loud instead of running it?
Replying to @stilkov
Nobody like this. But it's not easy, if they first time talk on the open conference, be patient....