Session’s Are a Specific Length For A Reason
Nothing irks me more when I walk into my session room than the prior presenter still standing up there doing his thing eating into my 15 minutes of prep/setup time. Conferences have fixed length sessions for a reason. So that the audience knows how long the session will be, so that the presenter knows how […]
Never Tempt the Demo Gods
Demos are one of the most fun parts of presenting, and one of the riskiest. This is because the demo gods have two options. They can smile upon you and give you a perfect demo, or they can piss all over you and your demo can crash and burn. How you handle those demo failures […]
Recommended reading from mrdenny for November 28, 2014
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Questions for the Board Q&A The MVP Global Summit: A Virtuous Cycle Why I Support PASS & Why I Criticize PASS What PASS is to me #sqlpass How come sys.dm_exec_requests.cpu_time never moves? […]
Your Attendees Don’t All Want 400 Level Sessions
I’ve heard some talk from SQL Saturday organizers that they only want advanced sessions at their SQL Saturday, for some reason or another. This probably isn’t what your attendees want. Sure, some of them do. But a lot of people who attend these sorts of sessions want more introduction sessions. Have you polled you attendees […]