Successful talk titles

Geertjan Wielenga: Do you try to make your titles and your content as broad as possible, to attract as many people as possible, or do you try to attract a few people who are going to be really focused on that particular topic?

Matt Raible: I certainly go with keywords. I've noticed that conference talks are very similar to blog post titles for SEO. You get more readers if you have the words "Angular" and "Spring Boot" in the title.

For conference talks, if you put the word "JHipster" in there without "Angular" and "Spring Boot," you're not going to get that many people coming. Keywords definitely attract people differently.

I might reuse a blog post. That's what I've been doing lately. I'll take a blog post as the main driver of the content, turn it into a presentation, and do the tutorial as a live coding exercise.

Geertjan Wielenga: How do you decide that you&apos...