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[Joel Jaeggli]

Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
  >> We might also want to invest in a timer that moves from 
green/yellow/red
>> based on the alloted time. I noticed that some people were held to a 
>> rock solid standard, others weren't. It's distracting when the speaker 
>> gets verbal time warnings(not anyones fault, it just is). Time ticks are 
>> needed, but there's a better way to do it, methinks.
> 
> Wholeheartedly agreed. Even a $5 alarm clock with a big LCD on the stage 
> would be an major improvement, it's difficult to tell how you're doing for 
> time or if you should speed things up or slow things down when you're in 
> the middle of a presentation.

When I mc part of the program, I have a powerpoint slide deck with 10 5 
and 1 minute markers which I place in the plane of view of the speaker 
at the appropriate moments. Not sure if the lightning talks speakers 
appreciate that but monday 12:00-13:00 ran smoothly.



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