Mr Douglas talks about presentations

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In this podcast I talk to Richard about presenting. How he got into presenting, how he wanted to be a teacher and more. How he gets his crazy ideas from watching movies. Abstract writing using the resources from SQL PASS Speaker Resources pages , how to put people off coming to your session and getting the level right and more….. Also we find out he doesn’t have a favourite session. (Yes – that’s Richards phone going off in the background) Listen in and enjoy Richard. Richard Douglas is a Sales Engineer at SQL Sentry where he specialises in providing SQL Server solutions and system health checks to organisations across the EMEA region. Richard was the founder and organiser of the Maidenhead SQL Server User Group and has spoken at several PASS events including the PASS Summit, SQL Rally’s, SQL Saturdays. He has also presented at UK events such as SQLBits and SQL Relay. Richard also regularly presented webinars for Dell Software and Quest whilst working for them and continues to present at PASS Virtual Chapters on various SQL Server related topics. He was a technical reviewer on two SQL Server 2012 books. Richard can be contacted via Twitter @SQLRich or on his blog http://SQL.RichardDouglas.co.uk Links and References Brent Ozar: http://brentozar.me Adam Machanic : http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/ Rob Farley http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rob_farley/ Klaus Aschenbrenner http://www.sqlpassion.at/ Aaron Bertrand http://blogs.sqlsentry.com/aaronbertrand/ SQLBits: http://www.sqlbits.com SQL PASS: www.pass.org Coeo: http://www.coeo.com SQL Relay: http://www.sqlrelay.co.uk Sherlock Holmes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ttws SQL Saturday Exeter: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/496/eventhome.aspx SQL Saturday Edinburgh http://www.sqlsaturday.com/502/eventhome.aspx (Event cancelled) SQL Soton: http://sqlsoton.sqlpass.org/default.aspx

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