This document holds generic planning material that can be used when preparing content to share with a broad audience (presentation, article, class, etc.). Make a copy of it, fill it out, and open a pull request to a repo you own to get feedback on it before creating your specific content. This step will sharpen your focus and reduce spin and wasted effort on the more expensive final product.
What is the title of your content?
Who is the intended recipient for your remarks? It may be just a subset of those that are actually listening to you. What is important to your target audience? Be as specific as possible, as it will help you to focus and streamline your content.
What do you want to change in your audience as a result of your remarks? While increased understanding is a possibility, your content will be stronger if part of the takeaway is some change in behavior that you'd like to see in your audience members.
How much time do you have?
What is the elevator pitch for your content? This section should be about a paragraph in length and sufficient for anyone to understand the general idea of what you're going to share and be interested in participating.
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Of key points
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And flow of ideas
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For your presentation
Readers of this outline should be able to understand how you're going to go about presenting your content. It shouldn't be any longer than one screen of vertical text.