Wednesday, June 10, 2009

SQLSaturday #14 – Speaker Results

I got my results from Karla Remail on the SQLSaturday talk over the weekend. I was surprised since typically other events have taken a few weeks to get results. I am not sure if this is the SQLSaturday platform or Karla’s diligence, but it’s welcome. Quite a few speakers were heading up to SQLTeach in Toronto this week, so it’s good that they got feedback quickly.

I would appreciate PASS doing this, making it a priority (or automating it) so that we could easily get quick feedback while the presentation is fresh in our minds. I stumbled on a couple things, and I had a few notes of things I’d change while I was talking. I wrote them down, and since I got immediate feedback, I can decide now what to change for next time.

Expectations:

  • Did Not Meet  - 0
  • Met Expectations – 5
  • Exceeded Expectations – 12

Not bad, and good to see that I’m working off my abstract pretty well. For the quality:

Quality (I added my interpretation in parens)

  • 1 (poor) – 0
  • 2 (not good) – 0
  • 3 (average) - 2
  • 4 (good) - 2
  • 5 (great) - 13

To me this means that I stumbled a bit and I have a few improvements to make. I ran over the presentation quickly on Fri, but not enough since I’d forgotten a few things on my slides. The delivery wasn’t as good as I’d like, and I need to fix a few things before the end of the month when I do this in Richmond.

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