Community Speakers

Great to have you with us today!

We are all set and ready to launch another group of community leaders.

We are very excited here at the New Speakers workshop. Not only is it only 2 more sleeps to our next workshop (Fri, Sept 6th), but today the Microsoft Technology UK Community and Partner Awards finalists were announced. And there are 6 exciting entries amoung the finalists. Check them out below or at https://lnkd.in/edaWxusJ and be sure to cast your votes in every category. Three graduates of the workshop are finalists, and we send our congratulations to ☁️ Nicholas Chang in the Community Rising Star category, Katie McMillan in the Security & Compliance Evangelist category and Rex de Koning 🚀 in the Communities, Community Hero category. We would like to thank everyone who nominated us in the Social Impact Award category and are honoured to be finalists alongside Mats Necker Charlie Phipps-Bennett 👨💻and Stephanie Stasey 🇺🇦. Finally, we are pleased to see our own Zoe Wilson and Sara Fennah in the Modern Work Evangelist category. Not sure how we decide who to vote for in any category as all finalists in all categories would be very worthy winners.

🌟🌟New Speaker Workshop 🌟🌟 On the 6th of September, we're running a full day new speaker workshop at the Microsoft Reactor in Paddington, aimed at helping new speakers get started on their community journey This workshop will be hosted by myself, Sara Fennah, Kevin McDonnell and Luke Evans, and will include all the practical steps you need to know to get started, including: 🎤 Finding events to speak at 🎤 Writing your bio and session abstracts 🎤 How to utilise tools like Sessionize.com 🎤 Practical tips on storytelling and presenting skills As well as a whole heap of fun exercises throughout the day We are down to our last few tickets, and ticket sales will close on the 1st of September: https://lnkd.in/eXeGnV4i #CommunitySpeakers #CommunityRocks #Presenting #NewSpeakers #PublicSpeaking Community Speakers

 Reminder! Don’t miss out on the Microsoft Community New Speakers Day! 🎤 🗓 Event Date: September 6, 2024 📍 Location: The Reactor, London Paddington Facilitating the event are Zoe Wilson, Luke Evans Kevin McDonnell and Sara Fennah, but you'll also get to see and hear from graduates of previous workshops as well as other new and established community speakers. Ticket sales close on September 1st at 11 PM UK time. Make sure to secure your spot before it’s too late! Find out more and sign up at https://lnkd.in/eNCAy2wb

Join us in September for our next new speaker workshop, where we will help demystify the process of becoming a speaker in the Microsoft tech community! Presented by MVPs and experienced public speakers, by attending this workshop you will learn: 🌟 How to find events to submit to speak at 🌟 How to set up your sessionize profile, and how to write a great session abstract 🌟 Gain knowledge across a range of topics including personal brand, storytelling and presentation skills 🌟Additionally, we'll also include practical exercises to help bring all of these learnings and insights together By the end of this day, you'll have your sessionize profile ready to go, know how to write a session abstract that stands out - and will have seen first-hand why this is so important! - and you'll have fun taking part in our practical presentation game Register now to secure your spot, however tickets for this are flying out! This may be the only new workshop we run in 2024 https://lnkd.in/eUncqXk5 #CommunityRocks #NewSpeakersWorkshop #CommunityDays #CommunitySpeakers Sara Fennah Luke Evans Kevin McDonnell

Wonderful news! Great to see a graduate of the workshop joining the ranks of the MVPs today. Recognition of all you do in the community Onyinye Madubuko, not just the speaking part.