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A collection of awesome resources about public speaking. Please read the [contributing guideline](contributing.md) if you wish to contribute.

## Blog Posts
* [8 Classic Storytelling Techniques for Engaging Presentations](https://www.sparkol.com/en/Blog/8-Classic-storytelling-techniques-for-engaging-presentations) - by **Ffion Lindsay**
* [Block Your Talk](http://eleganthack.com/block-your-talk/) - by **Christina Wodtke**
* [How To Get Speaking Engagements](https://www.samjarman.co.nz/blog/speaking-gigs) - by **Sam Jarman**
* [Nine Secrets to Powerful Public Speaking](http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/public-speaking-tips) - by **Julian Treasure**
* [Presenting is Performance](http://eleganthack.com/presenting-is-performance/) - by **Christina Wodtke**
* [Speaker Style Bingo: 10 Presentation Anti-Patterns](http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/06/speaker-style-bingo-10-presentation.html) - by **Troy Hunt**
* [How To Prepare And Write A Tech Conference Talk](http://wunder.schoenaberselten.com/2016/02/16/how-to-prepare-and-write-a-tech-conference-talk/) - by **Lena Reinhard**
* [Hosting virtual events for developers pt.1: Audience, topic, event title, & event description](https://www.codementor.io/blog/developer-virtual-events-guide1-dgzxdgnfmf)
* [Hosting virtual events for developers pt.2: Structure, slide decks, and event flow](https://www.codementor.io/blog/developer-virtual-events-guide2-disafwxxav)

## Books
* [Propose, Prepare, Present](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027096.do) - Free Ebook by **Alistair Croll** (O'Reilly)
* [Presentation Patterns](http://presentationpatterns.com/) - by **Neal Ford**, **Matthew McCullough**, and **Nate Schutta** (Addison-Wesley)
* [Presentation Zen Design](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321668790) - by Garr Reynolds. How to design your presentation.
* [TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking](http://www.amazon.com/d/0544634497/) - by **Chris Anderson** (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Start to finish guide to giving powerful talks.

## CFP

*List of Call of Paper sites and services.*

* [Callback Women](http://www.callbackwomen.com/) - Sharing CFPs via [Twitter](https://twitter.com/callbackwomen).
* [PaperCall](https://papercall.io/) - Place to manage your talks and submissions.
* [IT CFP List](https://github.com/softwaremill/it-cfp-list) - List of IT conferences Call For Papers, changes are also published via Twitter [@ItCfpList](https://twitter.com/ItCfpList).
* [Tulu.la](https://tulu.la) - Curated list of tech events and open CFPs. Friendly community and speaker support champions. Community-driven.
* [Codementor Events](https://www.codementor.io/events) - Curated listed of tech events and year-round developer-centered virtuao events.

## Clubs/Organizations
* [Toastmasters](https://www.toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club) - An international non-profit educational organizations that facilitates the creation and growth of clubs around the world. The goal of the clubs is to improve the leadership and public speaking skills of members.

## Miscellaneous
* [Awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) - A collection of awesome things curated by **Sindre Sorhus**
* [Awesome Community](https://github.com/peterkokot/awesome-community) - A collection of awesome communities curated by **Peter Kokot**
* [Public Speaking](https://github.com/vmbrasseur/Public_Speaking) - A collection of resources on presenting at technical conferences by **VM Brasseur**

## Videos
* [The Talk on Talks](https://zachholman.com/talk/the-talk-on-talks/) - by **Zach Holman** [36:26]
* [10 Quick Tips for More Effective Conference Submissions and Presentations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJz4JJIchaY) - by **Matthew McCullough** [30:07]
* [How to Talk to Developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9JXH7JPjR4) - by **Ben Orenstein** [47:37]
* [How to Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed](https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_levitin_how_to_stay_calm_when_you_know_you_ll_be_stressed) - by **Daniel Levitin** [12:20]
* [The surprising secret to speaking with confidence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MR5XbJtXU) - by **Caroline Goyder** [18:55]
* [Bringing Your Full Voice to Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze763kgrWGg) -  by **Barbara McAfee** [19:07]
* [How I Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80UVjkcxGmA) -  by **Danish Dhamani** [08:36]
* [How to speak so that people want to listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIho2S0ZahI) -  by **Julian Treasure** [09:58]
* [KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 Keynote: Hiding in the Dark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSdqHxvB0s4) - by **Dan Kohn** [07:51]

## Websites
* [Speaking.io](http://speaking.io) - Tips for preparing your talk and get ready to deliver it
* [awesome-talks](https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks) - a collection of awesome tech talks
* [We Are All Awesome!](http://weareallaweso.me/) - a collection of interesting posts about speaking, preparing, motivation, etc
* [HelpMeAbstract](http://helpmeabstract.com/) - Get feedback from veteran speakers before you submit your talk.
* [Irongeek](https://www.irongeek.com/) - A collection of information security talks.
* [Words to Time](https://wordstotime.com/) - Calculates how long a speech will take to present based on the number of words.

# LICENSE
[MIT](LICENSE.md)
