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title: Reflections on speaking at UnifiedDiff
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date: 2012-09-06
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excerpt: Yesterday evening I went along and spoke at the UnifiedDiff meetup in Cardiff.
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tags:
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- speaking
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Yesterday evening I went along and spoke at the
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[UnifiedDiff meetup](http://www.unifieddiff.co.uk) in Cardiff, having offered
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previously to do a presentation providing an introduction to Drupal.
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I'm an experienced Drupal Developer, but not an experienced public speaker
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(although I have done several user training sessions and Drupal demonstrations
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for clients previously), and I think that some of the nerves that I had
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beforehand were apparent during the presentation, and being the first speaker
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for the evening probably didn't help, although I did get a
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[nice tweet](https://twitter.com/craigmarvelley/status/243418608720543745)
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mid-way through.
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Initially, after aiming for a 20-minute presentation plus Q&A, I think I wrapped
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up the presentation in around 14 minutes, although I did about 6 minutes of
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answering questions afterwards including the apparently mandatory "Why use
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Drupal compared to WordPress or Joomla?" question, some Drupal 8 and Symfony
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questions, as well as an interesting question about the White House development
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project after I'd listed it within a list of example sites. Next time, I think
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that some more detailed presenter notes are needed. Typically, as soon as it sat
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back in my seat, the majority of things that I'd managed to remember beforehand
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all came flooding back to me and I thought "I should have said that whilst I was
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up speaking".
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Overall, considering my inexperience at speaking to this type of audience, I was
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fairly happy with my presentation, although I'm sure that I'll change my mind
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once I've watched the video of it on the UnifiedDiff website. Regardless, I
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think that it was a great experience and I enjoyed doing it, and I'd like to
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thank the organisers of UnifiedDiff for having me speak at their meetup. It was
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great to have a more relaxed conversation with some people after the other
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speakers had been up, and having introduced Drupal I would be more than happy to
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come back and do a more in-depth presentation if there is an interest for me to
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do so.
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