Back-up, back-up, and more back-up.
Technical problems are an unavoidable part of making presentations. I'm convinced
that even were I to travel to wherever I have to make a presentation with a laptop
and an overhead projector, I'd discover that the plugs wouldn't fit into the wall
sockets - in quite predictable Murphy's law fashion, there's always some sort
of difficulty which you haven't taken into consideration that presents itself.
I try to have at least two copies of any presentation with me - one on a disk-on-key,
another on a CD. It was about a year ago that (due to, in my opinion, overly excessive)
security precautions, these two weren't enough. The computer I was to present
from refused to recognize any outside media, neither CD nor disk-on-key. It was
definitely more a question of luck than of planning ahead (though perhaps of premonition)
that I'd for some reason put the entire presentation onto my web site, and since
the computer allowed web access, I was able to use that online version. Having
had that experience, I now post presentations online as one additional back-up.
Go to: Statically dynamic just ain't it, or
Go to: Working from experience, or
Go to: I've got my reasons, or
Go to: Just what does it want to accomplish?,
or
Go to: As far as resources go ..., or
Go to: Don't Bogart that Info