I had the privilege of presenting my 25-minute presentation on Shockproofing Your Use of Social Media as a five-minute Lightning Talk at the STC Summit in Sacramento on May 18th.
Lightning talks introduce an additional element of stress for the presenters: the slides advance every 15 seconds whether they’re ready or not. Our audience was ~150 Summit attendees, so we were presenting to our peers as well.
It’s quite the experience sharing the stage with eight other presenters with totally different styles. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat!
Other STC Summit 2011 Lightning Talks
- Robert Armstrong, Don’t Suck at Social Media
- Liz Fraley, Don’t Sell Yourself Short
- Alan Houser, Myths, Fallacies, and Lies in Technical Communications
- Brenda Huettner, Lighting Design, Terminology and Audience Analysis: Succeeding without Winning
- Bill Swallow, Advice from the Trenches on Building Online Communities
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I loved this! I agree with Karen, it’s an important topice, and you handled the strict structure really well. Let’s hope we all get to do it again!
Thanks Brenda. It was a blast, albeit a bit frightening! Yours was great as well. Are you posting it?
BTW–I submitted the full length version to Summit this year. The feedback I received was that the material was too basic. I’ll probably try again next year! (I’m presenting the full Digital Self Defense for Technical Communicators as the STC webinar on 6/1.)
It’s so much fun doing these talks! Thanks for sharing yours, Ben.
Your talk is terribly relevant, so you could easily go on the road with it. You cover basic stuff, yet I still meet people who don’t know this. Frightening, actually.
Thanks Karen. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The event had the feel of WWE at times. I assume you saw the smack talk in the tweets.