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It is now cheaper to put presentations on USB jump drives than it is to print them on paper. And, when you’re done, the audience gets free jump drives.
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September 8th, 2010 at 10:07 am
How’s that? The cheapest jump drives I’ve seen are about $10 each. Does it really cost $10 per copy to print a presentation?
I could believe putting it on CD might be cheaper (~13 cents each), but not a USB drive.
September 8th, 2010 at 10:09 am
bulk, you can get them $4
September 8th, 2010 at 10:20 am
And Kinkos charges $0.10 per page for color…so, more than 40 pages? Plus the hassle of collating, binding, etc.
Just print your powerpoint out to pdf, and stick it on a flash drive (or card). You can also inclulde a lot of ‘extra’ data if you want: Acrobat viewers, powerpoint viewers if you don’t mind the audience having the powerpoint files, research data, etc. Of course the audience has to have a way to follow along…
And even Amazon has them for under $10…they have a 4gb model for less than $6
September 8th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Better yet, save the postage and do one of the online meeting things. That way, they dont get a chance to just ignore your presentation, start flipping through and asking questions you havent got to yet, and disrupting the entire presentation. Or, with the jump drive, sitting there playing online while the presentation is going on.
September 8th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Or you can email it to them with an individual action item list for each recipeint and avoid the whole meeting.
Of course, set your email options to tell you when the recipient opens the email to demonstrate later that they got it, opened it, and ignored their action items.
I quit reading Dilbert years ago because it was way too accurate a picture of the company I was in.
September 8th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Well I was thinking of the smaller flash drives that nobody would bother with now-a-days. 64meg and 32meg flash drives can be purchased in bulk for way cheap. I think two years ago my old high school purchased a ton of them and came out to less than a dollar a piece.
…I remember buying my first 64 meg flash drive and was thinking that was a God’s plenty…
September 8th, 2010 at 11:54 am
And also get a free virus that comes pre-installed on the jump drive from china…
September 8th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Annnnddd…that’s why USB drives are verboten on any computer with a .mil address.
Plus, in my experience, the higher ups like paper partly because they can take notes on it. Most senior officer types are older, and can’t type fast enough to take notes if they’re looking at your presentation on a laptop.
Hell, I can’t type that fast, especially if I’m trying to listen to what you’re saying at the same time.
September 8th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Hand carried media (disks and flash media) are largely obsolete. Put your presentation on your web server and have your associates access it on their mobile devices, kinda like you’re doing right here on this heaww blog. I could send you this comment on a thumb drive, but why?
September 8th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I just beam the presentation into their cerebral cortex … oops, wrong temporal reference state.
September 8th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Took a firearms law seminar last year. Course materials on USB drives were included in the cost. Hard copy version? $95. (I got both.)
September 9th, 2010 at 3:16 am
I can. I type a lot faster than I can write by hand, actually, and I do better typing and listening than writing and listening.
But then, I’m 24 and a Computer Science/Multimedia Studies major. So I’m probably not typical.
September 9th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Thumb drives avoid being having to tell the outside consultant(s) “no, thou shalt not connect to our internal network lest the wrath of Network Security fall upon me for allowing a non-corporate-image to emit packets upon our holy Ethernet”.
As training co-ordinator for my department, I have had to literally rip a cable out of the wall when some idiot didn’t listen to me on that spiel, either. Boy was she pissed; but my room, my rules, lady. If you had told me you wanted internet access in the first place, I could have arranged it (and did so in the time it took me to walk back to my desk and get a MiFi that we keep around for just such a contingency). I’m pretty sure she couldn’t get through the firewall ANYWAY.
Email is out for most serious presentations, due to size; and CorpSec types get nervous about file servers open to the internet for Other People to download from (plus all the hassles of password management etc).
Sneakernet has its disadvantages, but occasionally it beats the other options