I found the embedded slides didn't work for me, so here's a non-embedded link to the same slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/the-road-to-being-a-kickas

I found the embedded slides didn't work for me, so here's a non-embedded link to the same slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/the-road-to-being-a-kickass-publis-speaker http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/the-road-to-being-a-kick... I'm a big fan of: (1) encouraging techies to take and make opportunities to present publicly; and, (2) improving the quality of the presentation in terms of supporting material and presentation styles. In the past I've found sites like Presentation Zen (http://www.presentationzen.com/ http://www.presentationzen.com/) to be really helpful for improving the quality of my presentations. I'm no Lawrence Lessig but here's part of a presentation I did last year at DEFCON: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XotF9FyiAZc http://youtube.com/watch?v=XotF9FyiAZc (Self-critique: still need to work on reducing the "ahhs". :) ) Also, like most things, improvement takes time: for many of my earlier presentations I just used a vertically scrolled single HTML page for my "slides"--it did the job and allowed me to concentrate more on the content. Nowadays when I actually manage to finish the content earlier than the night before I can put more time into increasing the production values. (Incidentally, I think the DEFCON videos from last year are possibly the best layout for post-event videos I've seen with legible slides and decent sized speaker view.)