My Presentation Slides: Making Your Site Printable

On Friday, May 17 I had the pleasure of speaking for the first time at Stir Trek, a one-day conference in Columbus, Ohio, that drew over 1,200 attendees (and I understand sold out in just a few minutes). Apparently the name is a reference to the MIX developer conference, for which they were unable to obtain license to use a variation on the name.

I also had the pleasure of presenting for the first time on best practices for making your web site printable, built from my own professional experience, my PrintShame site, and an article I wrote for .net Magazine, among other resources (also linked in the presentation).

With 40 great speakers across 8 different tracks, there was quite a lot on offer throughout the day. Considering the other presentations held at the same time as mine, I was thrilled to get any audience and more excited to see that those who attended saw value in the topic and asked great questions throughout.

As promised in the session, I have made my slides available online via SlideShare and embedded them here:

Well after the talk I got even more questions and feedback on the session, which I truly appreciated. Since there is no official survey for attendees to give feedback on a speaker, I am hoping any attendees will feel comfortable tweeting about it or leaving a comment here. So far I have gotten one great bit of feedback on Twitter:

Lest anyone think I’m just terminally negative, @aardrian had a REALLY GOOD talk on accessibility. And printability.

— David Longshore (@DavidLongshore) May 17, 2013

(I worked in some accessibility tips during my presentation.)

All other feedback is welcome (including if I was loud enough when the lavalier microphone failed).

While in Columbus I also had the pleasure of having a nice dinner (I arrived too late to make the speaker dinner), visiting the North Market, and, as part of the conference, getting to see a double feature of Iron Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness. All around a good time which I look forward to repeating next year.