I'm sitting next to my world-traveling presenter friend from ThoughtWorks, "Doc" List, here at Øredev in Malmö, Sweden. While discussing presentations, he just informed me that he posted a blog entry containing some tips that many technical presenters would do well to read.

I have the privilege of presenting the Presentation Patterns idea to the physician team at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Olympia, WA tomorrow. They'll be getting an excerpt of the book and some techniques applied to an example medical presentation.

If you have three displays, possibly comprised of 1) a laptop screen, 2) a projector screen, and 3) an Avatron iPad Air Display, you can mirror two of the screens and leave a the third to show the extended desktop.

Being an international presenter puts even more challenges on your shoulders. You need to remember the power conversion widgets and that Murphy's Law is waiting to stop your hard drive from spinning just moments before your talk. Here are three gadgets that help mitigate the risks and make the journey more pleasant and productive.

A colleague of Neal Ford's at ThoughtWorks recently blogged about his Disney World experience and how it changed his thoughts about teaching and presenting. The part I found most interesting was the following: