Presentation tips from the master

Science journalist and professional blogger Emily Lakdawalla over at the Planetary Society has posted one of the greatest "how-to" guides on the mechanics of giving a good talk I have ever seen. If you want to give better talks, it is a must-read.

There are two many choice snippets to succinctly reproduce, but this is one of my favorites:

"Don't go over your time. DON'T GO OVER YOUR TIME. Speaking so long that there is no time for questions informs your audience that you do not care what they think of your work or whether they understood your presentation. Speaking so long that you run in to the next speaker's time informs your audience that you think you are more important than the next speaker and more important than anything else the audience had been planning to do at that time. Both are insulting and disrespectful. You look like a jerk if you go over your time."


http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/04040850-better-conference-talks.html