I attended the Speakers Forum for the Richmond Code Camp on Monday evening. Tim Tatum presented a talk on Presentation Development and Delivery. It was very good. Tim put this together in an effort to get the speakers for the Richmond Code Camp 2008.1 to be prepared better than they have been in the past. Don't get me wrong, the presenters at the previous Code Camps in Richmond have been very good. But there's always room for improvement, right?

Tim brought a decade of experience teaching in the public school system and another decade of work in the IT field to the game and it showed. Very well done. We had an open discussion at the end where we opened up the floor to all sorts of ideas which was icing on the cake. If you want Tim to deliver this presentation to a group in your area, drop a note (kevin at gotnet dot biz) and I'll get you connected to Tim.

Another resource that's good on this subject is a new book by James O'Rourke entitled The Truth About Confident Presenting. I have it on my Safari Bookshelf and have been getting lots of good nuggets about prsenting from it, too. It's organized into 51 truths that you can bite off individually, treating it like a reference. I like that style of organization in any book. It's especially good for this subject. Here are the book details: