Warning: This article contains personal opinions.
As you might expect with any conference of 150 or more presentations, there are many stories to be told at this year's conference of the National Genealogical Society. The one that surprised me this week was the high failure rate of hardware and software among the presenters. I heard stories of no less than six different presenters who had major problems with their laptop computers, operating system, PowerPoint slides, or other critical computer tools.
Five of the problems happened at the very last moment as the presenters were setting up at the podium only moments before their talks. I was involved with a sixth issue in which the presenter suddenly found that the only copies of her PowerPoint slides for two presentations were corrupted and could not be used. Several people, myself included, worked on her files in an attempt to salvage anything at all, but we all were unsuccessful. Unlike the other five "victims" of computer gremlins, this one genealogy expert did have a few hours in which to create new slides.
Perhaps there are two or three lessons to be learned here.
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