Information Alchemy and Technical Influence

Technical influence is highly desirable. It is the vehicle by which you can take what you've learned about at NFJS and be given the chance to implement it back at your organization. One way this can be accomplished is through delivery of excellent technical talks.

Developers are looking for venues to present at these days for the education of the community and betterment of their career. The goal may be to present at a conference, user group, or just a private company. Learn the techniques of the best presenters in the industry through a dissection of what it takes to efficiently construct an engaging talk that offers solid insights and is memorable for the audience.

This talk provides tips, techniques, examples, and references: In short, a complete boot camp for building presentations that will capture the hearts and minds of an audience. This talk is largely tool-agnostic and you can use these techniques in Apple Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint, or OpenOffice Impress. Specific points covered include stock photos, mind maps, presentation techniques, topic selection and diagramming.

About Matthew McCullough

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is VP of Training at GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker at over 30 national and international conferences, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Gradle), distributed version control (Git, GitHub), Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Travis) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado has to offer.

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