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Are there any online tools or portals you would recommend to improve someone's presentation skills? Any specific courses? And what are their drawbacks?

Context: I often see developers who are extremely skilled give poor presentations. These performances seem to ruin an otherwise stellar content. Although there are many companies who do offline (in person, 1 to n) training, it would be great to have your input on tools which achieve the same or better, but online. Thanks!

I would be interested to hear whether in the Software and IT industry it is normal to have conference parties and, if so, whether you have found them useful or not and, more in general, your experience and opinion about them. Would you recommend them? Are they easy to find/advertised well?

Context: I used to work in the Games industry and have attended GDC (Games Developer Conference) in San Francisco various times. During GDC it is normal for companies to organise parties and you have many parties to choose per night. There you can meet other developers, investors and publishers. I have found that, most of the time, these parties are the place where you make the most meaningful networking connections, compared to the actual conference. However, they were super difficult to find due to poor advertisement! I have now moved to work in the Software Industry and will have to attend some software conferences and I am curious as to what the culture is in this industry regarding conference parties.

Thanks!

I would be interested to hear what software stack you use for learning and related note-taking. Some example questions that might help: what note-taking software do you use? How do you search and organise your notes for revision and reference? What are the pros and cons of your choices? Do you wish there was a software that solves a particular pain?

Context: I have noticed that I always struggle to keep consistent track of notes I make as I learn new topics. I have tried OneNote, Evernote, and some more open-source ones, but each lack of something that makes it complete. For example, I find Anki really useful and use it every day, but its interface is stuck in the 90s and it doesn't easily synch with my other, more expansive notes.