{"id":21,"date":"2006-07-21T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T06:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2006\/07\/21\/very-quick-presentation-tip\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T07:43:39","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T06:43:39","slug":"very-quick-presentation-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/very-quick-presentation-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Very quick presentation tip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana, arial, sans-serif\">I&#8217;m stunned I need to give this tip but I was a networking              meeting recently when one of the speakers&#8217; computer &#8220;hung&#8221;. He              promptly failed the &#8220;Fuse Test&#8221; (can you make a presentation without              technology &#8211; imagine if all the fuses failed) and panicked. His presentation was awful. Sadly, he              left before I could get to him to offer my services!<\/p>\n<p>His              problem was a simple one: his laptop had a virus checking program              running in the background.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana, arial, sans-serif\"> When the program decided it was time to do its              thing&#8230;.. everything else ground to a halt. Virus protection is              essential, but set up the program sensibly: before you do your              presentation ensure that <em><strong>everything<\/strong><\/em> except PowerPoint (or the              alternative packages) are stopped from running &#8211; and that they&#8217;ll <em><strong>stay<\/strong><\/em> not              running!<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana, arial, sans-serif\">Other examples include things like routinely checking for email, downloading updates and screen savers.\u00c2\u00a0 The latter is the voice of bitter personal experience!\u00c2\u00a0 I gave my presentation and took questions for so long that the audience was treated to an image of an 8 foot tall, cartoon dinosaur shredding up the screen!<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>The good news is &#8211; I&#8217;ve learned!<\/p>\n<p>Honest&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stunned I need to give this tip but I was a networking meeting recently when one of the speakers&#8217; computer &#8220;hung&#8221;. He promptly failed the &#8220;Fuse Test&#8221; (can you make a presentation without technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}