Archive for the 'Tips and Tricks' Category

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 [...]

Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

When you’re the slide guy, once all the presentations have been thoroughly PowerPointed and the meeting has started, they need to find something for you to do so you’re not just hanging around enjoying yourself. At least that was the case at an earlier point in my career. These days I’m also the AV guy [...]

Don’t Kick the Bucket

Friday, May 16th, 2008

[Warning: Although this post is about eating, it might be best if it wasn't read while eating.]
What do you and your team do the night before the big show? Do you hold a three-course sit down affair at the meeting venue and invite everybody who had anything at all to do with the project (”Will [...]

The Valium Bubble

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

I brought a very bad habit with me when I started my first real job. Considering it was the day after I turned 16, I guess it’s not unusual that I still might have had a bad habit or two left. It wasn’t an uncommon habit. Whenever I burned my finger tips, I reflexively touched [...]

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