Loooots of exciting things happened to me since I last wrote here and I'm having a terrific week now.
Now I'm very close to reaching another milestone.
You know, I've always been bad at public speaking. As a shy girl since school, I've always avoided public appearances, although they somehow followed me everywhere. I always knew I was bad at it and had a big desire to improve myself, so I started to take the chances whenever I was invited to do a training or presentation. It required a lot of energy with my self-criticism and perfectionism.
I remember, at BarCamp 2009, I was just an attendee and didn't have the courage to make a presentation. Next year I volunteered for BarCamp 2010 and did 2 presentations, got a lot of feedback. This year I also did two presentations, and spoke at the opening.. all in the big main hall! ...and the feedback was awesome. I am thankful to each and every one of my friends who were there, supported me and pointed me what had to be improved.
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| one of my biggest public speaking challenges at a Powerpoint Karaoke event: just a blabla on something you have no idea about :D |
During these two years I did a number of presentations and trainings in various places and every time i've been noticing my own improvement.
Last year at TEDxYerevan 2010 I watched my friend preparing for her talk and other speakers presentations and thought: hey, it'd be cool if i could grow up to be a TEDx speaker :) ...
so here I am :) in a great company! looking forward to September 24 to present my ideas on "Guinea pigs in technology" ;))
Watch the TEDxYerevan 2011 teaser here:
and btw, it will be held in TUMO!
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