What do you wish you had known before your first academic conference? [more inside]
posted by meerkatty on Jan 15, 2009 - 33 answers

Why would a laptop+conference projection thing make MS office docs expand? [more inside]
posted by ian1977 on Jul 14, 2008 - 4 answers

I've been invited to speak at an event - for an entire hour. How can I keep the audience awake? [more inside]
posted by so_necessary on Jan 9, 2008 - 21 answers

We are looking at the idea of using a flat-panel TV in our new conference room at work in lieu of a projector. The advantages of this would be that A) we could keep our existing lighting system, and B) it would look classier. Are there disadvantages to a setup this? Problems? Gotchas? And what kind of hardware should I be looking at? [more inside]
posted by fusinski on Dec 17, 2007 - 11 answers