Because when you re presenting, someone s always watching.
Here s a gem from meeting planner Deborah Elias piece describing the challenges she faced in putting together 3 events in 3 nights: Never assume your vendors will share information, even among their own staff. Always verify that the appropriate people receive firsthand information for accuracy, then follow-up with a thorough conference call. Despite its convenience, [...]
In his post How To Recover From A Speaking FAIL, Tom Webster recounts a typical story of hardware failure, offers some thoughtful recovery advice, and still manages to coin my new favorite neologism: laptopocalypse . I gave a keynote right before lunch on how to think about data, and I was rolling right along when all [...]
Pack a backup? What for? I can always by one when we get there. It s not like we re going into the wilderness. I mean, how much can they jack up the price. It s not going to cost so much that if impacts the budget.
David Craig s post Dealing with Tech Failure includes, along with a couple other good tips, a reminder of what it really requires to be completely prepared for video failure during your presentation.: Video in a presentation is a tricky proposition even if everything works properly. Anything more than a short clip gets tedious for the [...]
It s always important to have water at the podium. When the AC is out, it s crucial. [tweet https://twitter.com/JAD77/status/221722801978081281 align= center ]