Most popular guest post based on bad search engine assumptions: The world’s worst wet T-shirt contest — Laura Bergells was kind enough to share this story that is still getting getting a lot of hits (for all the wrong reasons). As I do, a man with 2 steaming coffees in his hands walks briskly towards [...]

The Presentations Council over at InfoComm International is surveying all of us presentation professionals: ARE YOU A PRESENTATION PROFESSIONAL? Compare yourself with your peers in InfoComm International’s annual Presentation Professional survey. This year it’s shorter, easier and faster to complete. Whether you’re one of many in a corporate setting, or a one-person shop wearing all [...]

It’s an NFL playoff game.  It’s a win or go home situation. A player limps off the field after getting hurt. In many cases, it’s no big deal and he can walk the injury off before he needs to be back on the field. Sometimes, it’s obvious that he needs to go to the locker [...]

Great Public Speaking: Humorous Acknowledgments To Tough Situations — “There will come a time when you will either be in front of a hostile audience or a hostile question will pop up during a relatively calm presentation. This is a tough situation at best and you have to handle it with kid gloves. Humor can [...]

Yeah, I know it’s kind of crass to whine and complain during the season of joy, but here are a few things I know a lot of meeting professionals wished Santa had managed to slip into his sack before flying south: A magic coupon for free, fast, robust, ubiquitous Wi-Fi redeemable at any meeting venue. [...]

jaunted: Nothing Cheery About LaGuardia This Morning — “What were we thinking? Some crazy fantasy of Christmas at home drove us to attempt to fly standby this morning, in order to duck both the forthcoming East Coast storm and the just-passing Midwest storm. While there’s still the remotest chance we might be able to get [...]

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“Break a leg” is a well-known saying in theatre which means “good luck”. It is typically said to actors before they go out onto stage to perform. The expression reflects a theatrical superstition in which wishing a person “good luck” is considered bad luck. The expression is sometimes used outside the theatre as superstitions and [...]

FAILBlog: Backstage at BackstageJobs.com: Props are important. Screw them up, and someone could die — “An actor at the Vienna National Theatre slit his own throat in front of a packed house when the fake prop knife he was supposed to have was accidentally switched for a real knife.” Face2face: Teleprompter problems — “I know [...]

You know the guy* I mean. The guy who… insists on making multiple, tweaky, obviously non-essential slide changes minutes before going on (this behavior is very much akin to the way he treats waiters in order to provide evidence of his place in the pecking order). loses temper in an extremely unprofessional way when these [...]