Slides from Nov 8 Emerging Technology SIG

Last month I was asked to give a presentation about Greasemonkey at the Emerging Technology SIG here in Mountain View. I was bored with my old presentation format, so I redesigned it.

View the slides.

And here's the zipped package if you want to use the format for your own presentation.

The old format also had some issues. I found that personally, the more words that were on each slide, the more I was obligated to say on each slide. It made me uncomfortable, knowing that people would see if I didn't say something I had planned to.

My girlfriend, Susan, mentioned that I actually speak about Greasemonkey quite well off the cuff. So I stole an idea from other presentations I've seen and put very few words on each slide. I felt like this gave me more freedom to just talk - expanding on areas people seemed interested in, and skipping areas they didn't.

There is only a very vague structure to this presentation. It's divided into several high-level sections, and each section progresses through a few phases:

• Question
• Exploration, broad answers, more questions
  
• Restate Question
• Concise answer
  

I don't know if this is applicable to other presentations, but it seemed to work for Greasemonkey. Maybe Greasemonkey just has a lot of questions surrounding it :-).