I know you’ve read the title and are thinking, “Great, I’m going to learn how to write better presentations!” The truth is, it’s about how conferences do call for papers timelines, abstracts, as well as how we manage our content. Timing Is Everything In recent years, there’s been a scramble to get on the schedule for the best speakers. I remember when I first started as the director for RMOUG’s annual Training Days conference. I had to keep the opening date for Call For Papers, (CFP) secret, since the moment I opened the portal up, IOUG, ODTUG and UKOUG were sure…
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I know that right sidebar on my blog has an AWFUL lot of Microsoft events on it. There’s so many, I’ve begun to use the hashtag #MySummerOfSQL due to it. For those of you that follow me with Oracle, it doesn’t mean that I’m leaving the Oracle community- not even close. I’m as dedicated as ever to Oracle and hope to dig back into my performance roots on both platforms, but know that the summer is the quiet time for Oracle user group events, so I’ll be keeping myself busy with SQL Saturdays and the AWESOME preview to the annual…