Category: Community

That thing you want to do? Do the thing.

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date July 29, 2017
Categories In Career, Community, People and Opinions, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

You’re thinking of starting a blog, or teaching, or training videos. Will it pay off? Will it be worth it? Could he keep up with it? Will you end up embarrassing yourself? Let’s talk.

The Public Speaking Roadmap

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date March 25, 2017
Categories In Community, People and Opinions, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

So you look around, and all the cool kids are speaking at SQL Saturdays and PASS Summit and the like. You want to be the cool kids too, so how do you start public speaking? Here in four simple steps, is your roadmap.

Conference speakers: Why do you teach at events?

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date August 29, 2016
Categories In Community, People and Opinions, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
1 Comment on Conference speakers: Why do you teach at events?

I’ve put up a Twitter poll to find some answers to the question: Why do speakers teach at events? Especially at events where there’s no compensation. I know more or less why I do this, but I’ll hold off on my answer. I want to hear about you. #SQLSaturday and other conference speakers: Why (primarily) do […]