July 27, 2006 at 1:10 am
#700050
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Try not to do what I did – I came in with too much material for the short time alotted, and the guy in front of me ran late, and I ended up being able to present only a quarter of my material.
One tends to worry about not having enough material.
The problem is usually not having enough time.
If you are one of two people speaking, and you have a topic where people are going to want to ask questions, you are almost guaranteed to not have enough time.
Keep it short, no background for the facts, but lots of facts. People usually want to know “what”, not “why”.
And in this case, certainly stay away from “how”.