Sorry to all of you who showed up at the conference to watch my presentation. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but we just couldn’t keep the sound up. The microphone kept cutting out. I tried two different microphones on my computer, switched over to Chris Allen’s computer, even switched Internet connections. No matter what we did, the sound would stay up only long enough for me to get a sentence or two out, then cut out.
So eventually we just gave up and went to Q and A. Cool to notice that about 50 people hung out for the whole session even though I couldn’t talk!
After that, someone mentioned that Flash 10 might be causing problems with Connect. So Chris downgraded his Flash Player to Flash 9. He was then able to get up and running and give his whole presentation without a problem. I know lots of others have mentioned having sound problems, so if you still need to speak, you might want to think about switching over to Flash 9. No guarantees, but it might save you some frustration.
Anyway, we might go ahead and record my session and make it available later. We’ll let you know if and when that happens.
[To clarify: the title does not mean that the
conference failed, only that my session failed. From all accounts, though mine were far from the only technical difficulties, the people who are attending a lot of sessions are enjoying it and getting a lot out of it.]