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Your preso toolkit (Presenting is Simple)
The first time I burned my fingers changing out a lamp in an overhead projector was a salutary lesson for me. From then on, I always carried a glove in my presentation bag. Over the years, the contents of my bag have evolved to reflect the technology that I am using and every now and then, I sit down and strip out items that I no longer use. But it’s still a fairly long list…
Lesson learned #1 – Turn off Twitter during a work presentation. (Cec’s Babblings)
But I think I could have considered this presentation as not completely disastrous if I hadn’t committed any more mistakes… mmmmm… yeah, it would still have been ok if I hadn’t forgotten to turn off my twitter application…
But yeah.. the issue with these background applications is that they not always stay in the background and guys, you had a lot to tweet about on Friday afternoon!So I learned a lesson during what will be the worst presentation I would have ever made in my professional career:Â always, always, always turn off twhirl before a meeting.
Through the ears of an attendee… (Pulse Staging and Events)
Whenever we provide AV for an event, I always log on to monitor the Twitter stream. IÂ derive two benefits.
- Quality Assurance. It’s like being able to hear the event through the ears of my audience. If a certain area can’t hear the music or someone has problems seeing, we can adjust our settings or at least let the event organizers know so they can try to remedy the situation. It’s one more way we offer a value add as an AV company. Nancy Zavada of MeetGreen actually wrote a blog post about this from the viewpoint of being an event planner checking things out remotely, jumping on Skype and alerting her team on the ground. Awesome!
25 considerations for choosing a venue for your event production (Sound n’ Sight)
You may or may not go on the site visit, so here are the questions you the Producer will need answered specifically.