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Links 1 through 10 of 13 by Dave Neary tagged advice

Valerie Henson's HOWTO on negociating salary - she says it's for women, but in my experience everyone can learn from this. Great stuff.

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Such good advice about running meetings! To read & reread. One of the key take-aways for me is that most meetings are not needed.

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Classic talk from MJD (of perl fame) on how to organise a 3 hour conference tutorial to be successful. Have frequent sync points, drop the introduction section, keep old slides around and call them the "value added appendix", let people out in time to get the best cakes at break time, and above all, end on the last slide (you can skip a bunch if you're running out of time, people won't mind, but if you don't end on the last one, they feel robbed).

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Useful advice on providing useful feedback. Mostly, this can be summarised as "Answer the question that was asked, not the one you wish was asked". Very relevant to every community mailing list I've ever seen.

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Presentation skills tutorials

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Ruby HeoDown keynote - looks like a good time, I'm going to watch the video one of these days. Punchline: Stop reading Twitter & RSS, and start working on a side project.

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A couple of weeks ago the SFLC published a comprehensive primer on legal issues surrounding free software - including copyright, patent, trademark and organisational issues. A top notch read.

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Related to the blog entry I wrote earlier - Josh Berkus wrote a set of lessons learned during 8 years as a database consultant.

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Via Matt Asay (I have no idea how that turns into Ay-See as in AC/DC)

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