my biggest piece of tech conference advice #techjobs #techconference

20 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief talk, the speaker urges conference attendees to actively take notes on the presentation and immediately share those notes on social platforms such as Twitter, Bluesky, or LinkedIn. By posting about the talk and explicitly asking for a retweet, the speaker promises to amplify the post and even become a close connection ("BFF"). The core message is that creating and documenting content for others, and then requesting engagement, is a powerful way to build relationships and visibility at conferences.

Create content for the speaker. If you're on Twitter or Bluesky or LinkedIn, take notes on my talk. If you take notes on my talk and post about it, I'm gonna retweet you and I'm going— you're gonna become my BFF. You have to understand something. When you create for others, when you document for others, when you take notes for others, especially at a conference like this, you can go for the ask. Does that make sense?