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    <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 10:02:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lorna Mitchell's Blog: Conference Biography Help]]></title>
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Following <a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/13558">some of the suggestions</a> from the php|architect folks about getting your ideas accepted at conferences, <i>Lorna Mitchell</i> has <a href="http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2009/Conference-Biography-Help">posted some of her thought process</a> behind coming up with a good conference bio.
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To get to this point, I started with a list of things I should include. My job, my blog, my community activity, my technical interests. [...] I then turned my points into sentences, and emailed the result to a few people to read. [...]  I always take this approach even when I know I'm probably making a hash of it, if I'm asking for someone's input, I take the time to attempt it myself and send them the result.
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She also notes that proofreaders are always a big help, catching some of the small things that you might gloss over and could make your bio. You can get a few other ideas and examples <a href="http://www.canadianinstitute.com/speakerresources/Creating_Your_Biography.htm">here</a>, <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4785122_write-short-author-bio.html">here</a> or <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080924111719AAenCsd">here</a>.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:49 -0600</pubDate>
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