PR Summit 2: Lanyards and Klingons

The annual PR summit was very valuable. I followed a technology path and learned the latest web 2.0 stuff for PR. It's a long list that will be delineated in my proposal at the office. My two odd observations were first that whoever came up with the idea of hanging name tags from lanyards that spin around should be thrown out of the event planning sphere. Lanyards defeat the entire purpose for having name tags. You have to look down at some one's breast or lower and only see the actual name half the time. The other half, the tag is hidden in clothes or spun around the wrong way. Second, towards the end of the sessions on Monday, people began to look like Klingons. Really. The light fell oddly on the bald head of one break-out session presenter, defining and emphasizing the wrinkles and folds in his forehead. Then in the Lady's' room, I looked over at the woman washing her face in the sink to my right. Not many women wash their faces fully in the Lady's' room sinks. She lifted her head, pushed back her hair (blond, of course), and there was a scrunched up face, eye brows just about touching each other, hanging low over the bridge of her nose. Later, I talked to an ex-TV weatherman the top of whose ears were folded peculiarly, like a Klingon forehead not like Fergeny ears.