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Presenting Well – Tell Your Story

Submitted by mwidlake on Thu, 2019-11-28 11:25

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I don’t think the key to a really good presentation is the content, the structure, the delivery method, or even the main message. It’s The Story.

How to (Not) Present – The Evil Threes

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2019-11-22 09:25

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Controlling The Presentation Monster (Preparing to Present)

Submitted by mwidlake on Mon, 2019-11-18 14:03

As I covered before, nerves before a presentation are not a bad thing. In fact, many excellent presenters/performers recognise that those butterflies of anxiety are necessary to make your presentation really sing. But you need to control the Presentation Monster. You want to take it down from lion-taming to annoyed-but-fundamentally-not-evil-cat-training.

OGB Appreciation Day: It’s All About ME!

Submitted by mwidlake on Thu, 2019-10-10 11:35

The Oracle Groundbreakers program, and it’s previous incarnations going back to OTN and beyond, are all about me. Yes – Me!

I Wish All New Presenters Knew This (and it will help you):

Submitted by mwidlake on Mon, 2019-10-07 14:07

All people new to presenting need to know this:

Riga & Romania, Zagreb & Zurich: It Sounds Rockstar but Really it’s Not

Submitted by mwidlake on Thu, 2018-05-10 12:31

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last month or two trying to plan how to navigate a set of visits to the Eastern side of Europe. This might sound a little “My Glamorous Lifestyle” but, as my friend Tim Hall (he who is “Oracle-Base”) has documented in his posts under “my glamorous lifestyle”, doing the Oracle talk circuit often entails lots of hours in airports & stations, travelling with cheap, basic airlines, and sometimes a lot of stress. It is not the “Airport lounge and first class service” some people think it is. Anyway…

Friday Philosophy – Doing DOAG (& a Little, Light, Hem-Touching)

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-11-24 10:46

This week I’ve been at annual DOAG conference. DOAG is the German (Deutsch) Oracle User Group annual conference. It’s my second time there and I very much enjoyed it, meeting lots of people & seeing some great talks. I also got a request to do more Friday Philosophies, so…

Friday Philosophy – What Makes a Community?

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-11-10 14:48

Earlier this week Daniel Westermann asked a question on twitter: “What is community?”

Free Webinar – How Oracle Works!

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-09-15 11:32

Next Tuesday (19th September) I am doing a free webinar for ProHuddle. It lasts under an hour and is an introduction to how some of the core parts of the Oracle RDBMS work, I call it “The Heart of Oracle: How the Core RDBMS Works”. Yes, I try and explain all of the core Oracle RDBMS in under an hour! I’m told I just about manage it. You can see details of the event and register for it here. I’ve done this talk a few times at conferences now and I really like doing it, partly as it seems to go down so well and people give me good feedback about it (and occasionally bad feedback, but I’ll get on to that).

Friday Philosophy – New Conference, Same Sad Old Faces Up Front

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-06-02 10:20

I’ve been on the Oracle conference presenting circuit for well over a decade now and I must confess I enjoy it. Part of this is that I see lots of friends at nearly every conference – even in countries I have never been to before. This is because many of those friends are fellow presenters, who have been presenting for well over a decade now…