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Re:How to present backend demos by btbuildem on Monday September 05, 2022 @08:30PM (#32731128)
Regarding the last point: read the room.

How do we read the room when it's a Teams call?

Re:How to present backend demos by jkaptur on Monday September 05, 2022 @08:36PM (#32731170)
Observe the percentage of people with their camera on (vs. some baseline), look at the faces you can see, watch for reaction emojis, take intermediate points to solicit questions and see how many you get, etc.
Re:How to present backend demos by Gravityloss on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @09:32AM (#32736870)
I often just honestly ask: "does it make sense, what I just said"? Often people are that "yes" but sometimes I get questions like "but doesn't X already do this, what is the difference?" etc that are very useful.
Re:How to present backend demos by btbuildem on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:14PM (#32754109)
I find one thing that sort-of works for me is to stop often and prompt questions from the audience.

Repeated dead silence means (to me) that no-one is interested.