When it comes to the User Groups and my past presentations, I've done some with code and some without.  Actually, many of the recent presentations were on topics where no code was necessary or possible.  But my new resolution is that every presentation I do from now on will have half the PowerPoint slides and at least 20 minutes worth of GOOD code demonstrations.

That brings me to MSDN.  This is an awesome resource for those of us who want to present topics.  Lots of the work is done for you and you can easily extend these articles into a worthy presentation.  Even if you don't extend the topic beyond the scope of the article, lots of people don't read MSDN as often as they should.  For these people, a straight presentation of an MSDN article would be a fantastic way to learn something they might otherwise have missed.

At the last VB.Net UG meeting we had 2 brand new presenters.  I hope they learned that presenting in front of the group isn't as scary as they thought and that they want to do it again.  I'm just here offering suggestions for finding future presentations.

-- Matt Ranlett