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
11 comments:
nice presentation.
i wish i had heard the actual oral part.
Hi Aaron. Thanks for mentioning Monkeygrease... just out of curiosity, what did you say about it?
On another note, I think one aspect of Greasemonkey (and the like, Monkeygrease) that's not getting much air time is its ability to contextually tie together content/stuff that may have some relationship but don't come from the same place. The best example of this is Book Burro. It contextually bridges different sites/content together... something you can't do without mashing it up yourself or via Ning.
Maybe we should think of Greasemonkey less of a "fix it" toolkit but rather as a "Context Manager." A tool that is a multi-purpose tool to fix anything, but also a powerful tool that can orchestrate content from varying sources and mash them up in useful ways... think of it as Ning for personal use.
Noodle on it... I think many more useful Greasemonkey scripts can be born if we start thinking of it as an orchestrator of content or context manager tool.
Rich
I just said that as I understood it, it was a server-side post processor for J2EE-style applications, which would be useful for intranet apps your company is stuck using.
But that I hadn't used it so I wasn't sure.
That's right, I hope :-)
Absolutely right.
I love the loans key websites they provide the most relevant information about the payday loan providers...
Quite an excellent presentation, I'd say; without even having had the privilege of attending it and despite its brevity, I am fairly sure I managed to puzzle up most of the bits it covered, after doing some web research myself on underground topics I had not stumbled on before myself.
So now I have been stuck marvelling at the sheer ambition of the work plown down by the hooded men since an hour or two, getting acquainted with the system. :-) It is not far from the experience of my initial Greasemonkey encounter, Book burro, plus a healthy user contribution climate built up around it.
Great presentation. Overwhelming. And now the questions: Hoodwink.d? I read Johans lengthy article. Impressive and pretty geeky. MonkeyGrease? Still thinking about what that could be :-)
Confused as always =:-)
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