On Friday, I linked to a video of stage manager Debbie Williams exhibiting aplomb and presence of mind while fixing Brad Pitt’s malfunctioning microphone during the Idol Gives Back concert. We’ve all seen presenters and stage crew deal with difficult situations, mistakes and disasters.
What was the single most inspiring example grace under [...]

joeyhagedorn.com: Home-built Blu-Ray Laser Pointer – “In a completely dark room it is even possible to see the beam in air…” You definitely don’t want to give one of these to one of the Jedi Knights I wrote about last week.
Businesss Presentations: Unhitch the Technical Glitch — A teleseminar goes wrong. Five suggestions for dealing.
PittWatch:Video [...]

Despite what the title leads you to believe, this isn’t part two of last week’s “letting loose with the laser pointer” post. This week I’m going to talk about how a room’s lighting scheme can render your visuals invisible.
I don’t want to overdramatize the way it went that morning. None of the things that went [...]

Speak Schmeak: Check your sight lines — Don’t let obstructions get between you and your audience.
PaulDotCom’s Web Site: A tale of information gathering made easy, Part two — Make sure you do a better job of keep track of sensitive meeting materials that these folks did.
face2face: Wal-Mart may be regretting doing this deal on a [...]

The last presentation before lunch was just getting started and I’m trying to find my copy of the agenda. Since I was the PowerPoint guy at that meeting, my day was pretty much over and I was hanging out with the crew in the control booth daydreaming about the lunch buffet. The technical director’s whispered, [...]

The breaking of Murphy’s Law is not like robbing a bank, stealing a car or wearing white after labor day. Murphy’s Law is more like the law of gravity. It seems like a constant, like it’s built into the way the world works. It drags you down. You can’t really break it, but you can [...]