Todd’s tips
You have a story to tell. It is your story. Develop the setting. Create some characters. Make them fail. Make them find help from others. Make them succeed. It is your story. Make it yours. (Also, use...
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One method of preparing a PressED presentation is to build your presentation as a series of Tweets (with accompanying images as needed) in MS Word or other word processing document. When the time comes...
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See some of Chris’s thoughts on his blog – https://lefthandedbiochemist.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/taking-part-in-a-twitter-only-conference-some-reflections-on-pressedconf18/
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Our #PressEd18 presentation was a joint one (between myself and @jar), and we had to pull it together when we were both travelling extensively. In many ways I think that made the format a blessing in...
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Preparing for @pressedconf was exciting, yet totally different than my usual conference preparation exercises! Rather than preparing slidedecks, I was preparing a combination of tweets, threads, links,...
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I found presenting at PressED to be a hugely rewarding, if rather nerve-wracking experience! My top tips would be…. Edit edit edit – writing a presentation concisely enough to fit into 15 tweets is...
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First, like any presentation think about what your key message is. You don’t have a lot of space so consider if each tweet will be a standalone message (good for retweets) or if the whole set needs to...
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I prepared all my tweets in advance. I thought of each from two perspectives – how it added to the narrative string and how each tweet might be interesting on its own. I added pressedconf18 and...
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Presenting on twitter is a scary thought but presenting at PressED was a great thing to do and allowed me to express how much benefit I had gotten from my wordpress blog educationally. If I could give...
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