Archive for the 'Problems with Venue' Category

Mustard First

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

As you may remember from an earlier post, my first real job was at a McDonald’s. Started the day after I turned sixteen. You might also remember that I got into some trouble because I didn’t deal with burning my fingers in way that had approval from corporate headquarters. They were funny about stuff like [...]

Sticky Situation

Friday, July 11th, 2008

The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress is one of my all-time favorite meeting venues. The first time I ever traveled for business was to attend a huge annual sales convention being held there. My wife and infant daughter (that’s her in the photo) were able to accompany me. I was fresh out of college and found [...]

Life in the Corporate Theater

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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 [...]

PowerPoint (that’s right, PowerPoint) to the Rescue

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Lisa Lindgren, a fellow member of the InfoComm Presentations Council and Publisher of PresentationXpert, was kind enough to share a story about how PowerPoint 2007 recently foiled Murphy’s Law. Lisa reminds us of some important best practices and I have an observation or two of my own (surprise, surprise).
We all know that we should test [...]

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