Crazy For Conference!
I’m in Windsor this grand morning, as this weekend is the annual general meeting of London Conference. As with last year, I will be assisting with the technological infrastructure and presentation at this year’s meeting. Gord, Chris and I will be taking care of the projectors and video equipment, and Pat will be running the sound. The members of the United Church who will be attending are mostly older, and not so in touch with technology, so the presentations they put together will often suffer from some of the common Powerpoint sins:
- Too much text per slide.
- Slides are in sentences instead of point form.
- Transition effects that distract instead of engage
- People will read the slides to us rather than expand on the text
- Offensive colour schemes
- Mid-80s era clipart
The weekend will be fun. I will get to see a number of people I haven’t seen since last year’s conference, and I like running the tech equipment. If everything goes well, nobody will notice us at all, and that’s always the goal when it comes to the infrastructure of the event.
Offensive colour schemes! Mid-80’s clipart! Is Comic Sans included too? If so, that is certainly my idea of a nightmare.
Have fun at conference! Don’t get up to too many shenanigans!
I have yet to be able to cause shenanigans, but give me time. I hope to get the opportunity to eventually, but we have been too busy thus far. The event is now happening and we’re pretty much sorted out at this time.