Today was the first ELA Conf in Philadelphia at Wharton. It was absolutely fantastic. Such amazing stories of empowerment and authenticity. Thank you for such a great event.
I gave a talk on getting started speaking and I am blown away by the great ideas that the attendees came up with. I hope that these lists may help those who are thinking about giving their first presentation.
Potential Locations
Below is a list of locations that the attendees of my Getting Started Speaking Workshop came up with. I asked everyone to write down meetup groups they have attended, any conferences they’ve been to, and any other potential places at which to give a presentation. I hope it helps those who are thinking about giving their first presentation!
Girl Develop It meetups- TED talks
- SXSW
- Toastmasters
- Improv
- Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- GDI South Jersey
- Book Clubs
- Barcamp
- Delaware Innovation Week
- WordCamp Philly
- Coworking spaces
- Walnut Street Labs
- Night Owls
- Ascend Summit
- Urban Geek Drinks
- Library
- Creative Mornings
- Walnut Club
- PNTM
- Women in Tech Summit
- Write/Speak/Code
- CMX Summit
- Seed Con
- Talks at coworking or incubator spaces
- TechGirlz
- Internally at your own company
- Front-End Philly
- Drexel University
- Refresh Philly
- Philly Analytics meetup
- Dataphilly meetup
- ELA
- IRCE
- BlendConf
- Creative Mornings
- An Event Apart
- On your own YouTube channel
- Siggraph
- Story shuffles – friends host story themed nights and have friends tell 5 minute stories i.e. theme: orang
- AIGA – art community networking events for designers/art directors
- Book club
- Portfolio reviews – design portfolio reviews
- Run club
- Ignite Philly
- Delaware Tech Meetup
- WBENC
- Pyramid club
- PhIMA
- Junior league of Philadelphia
- Walnut club
- PAMA
- PA conference for women
- UX camp
- 140 conf
- FitBloggin
- Blogging while brown
- Blog U Conference
- PodCamp Philly
- Content Camp
- Philly ‘burbs WordPress Meetup
- Religious organizations – deliver sermon when clergy is on vacation
- Local chamber of commerce
- PTO at child’s school
- Penn State Web Conference
- Introducing an honoree at a fundraising event
Talk Topics
The prompt to come up with potential talk topics were to think about:
- What do you want to learn about?
- What are you really excited about?
- What have you just learned about?
- What tasks do you do every day?
- What do you want feedback on?
The group came up with some really fantastic ideas! See below for the list.
- Coding Java
- Being on a team
- Being organized
- Veganism
- Front end development
- JavaScript
- Cider Varieties
- Negotiation, power and self worth
- Sandler Methods
- Interior Design
- Product Development
- The Key to Customer Success
- Managing Your Managers
- HTML to WordPress
- Custom Posts & Pages in WordPress
- Securing a WordPress site
- Setting up inventory in WooCommerce
- WordPress child themes
- FTP
- WordPress
- Writing/Development
- Identifying the right social media platform
- How to network
- Gesture control
- Command line
- Git
- Grunt
- Gulp
- Teaching with live demos
- Node.js
- Websockets
- COC for online communities
- Marketing strategy
- Guidelines for respect
- Empowering businesses online and offline
- Analytics
- Building community online to IRL
- Social media plugins for WordPress
- Integration of UX & social media into branding
- Accessible websites
- Assistive technologies and autism
- Apps/software which help with organization and time management life & work
- Time management techniques
- Meditation &/@ work
- Customer engagement with social media & mobile
- How to come up with design ideas for code
- Cooking
- Photography
- SQL querying
- Epidemiology
- Public speaking
- Women empowerment
- Languages
- Travel
- Analysis
- Food
- Data visualization
- Running
- Traveling
- Illustration
- Web knowledge
- Design v. development
- Networking
- Design
- Freelance
- Buying a house/condo
- Accounting to learn
- How to be a good WordPress implementer
- How to provide support responses in a help desk platform
- What info to provide when you need to request WP plugin support
- How to get started with filezilla
- How to set up note and conductor plugins
I hope these lists prove useful and if you’re looking for my slides, they can be viewed on slides.com.