In order to make this blog as useful as possible, I’d like to get a better sense of who is visiting. Please take a moment and answer the following using the poll displayed near the top of the left sidebar. Are you usually: A presenter with a support team that handles your technical and logistic [...]

Zallas Technologies: Managing Meeting Mayhem — “You start the meeting, only to be interrupted by two or three latecomers. As you glance around the room, people are busy sending text messages on their cell phones and whispering quietly to each other. What about the meeting? How do you even try to compete with all of these [...]

Steve LaRose is an AV/IT tech in the corporate presentation business. He gets to travel all over the world staying in some really glamorous places doing some rather unglamorous work. If anyone in the world is intimately acquainted with Murphy’s Law and how to go about breaking it, it’s Steve and the army of pros [...]

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I’d like to thank Guy Kawasaki and his team for including Breaking Murphy’s Law on Alltop’s public speaking site. I’m as honored as I am surprised. After all, Breaking Murphy’s Law is only a little more than two months old. I’d also like to that anyone who suggested BML to them as they we deciding [...]

LetZcommunicate: “Speaking of Nightmares” — Seven presenting nightmares, seven really useful lessons learned. Pro Humorist: “Pulblic Speaking: Hecklers” — “This is important because you are the speaker so you are in the position of power.” Business Presentations: “Get the Hook: When Speakers Hog the Spotlight” — Great tips for gracefully helping the longwinded away from [...]

I’m going to be doing some general housekeeping on Breaking Murphy’s Law this weekend. One of the major tasks is going to be tidying up and reorganizing the way I categorize posts. Why am I telling you this? I’ll need to go back and recategorized the posts that have already been published (which is why [...]

A recent post on Blue Room (a discussion board for folks who work backstage) deals with an interesting subject: “How much stuff have you had stolen?” I’d like to continue the discussion here since having equipment stolen is most definately a case of Murphy’s Law. Using the poll in the left sidebar, please answer the [...]

Dr Simon Raybould anticipates that the architecture of the room he is presenting in might present some challenges — Tiers to tears. speechmastery.com: Accurate Pronunciation How Do I Say…? A List of the Most Mispronounced Words. iDoctor: Happy Birthday USB Flash Drive! – I guess sometimes good things can come from bad presentations. Speak Schmeak: [...]