{"id":2157,"date":"2008-01-14T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/13\/all-things-change-some-change-slowly\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T07:01:37","slug":"all-things-change-some-change-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2157","title":{"rendered":"All Things Change &#8211; Some Change Slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While checking out the National Genealogical Society (NGS) 2009 Conference in the States <a title=\"Proposal Guidelines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ngsgenealogy.org\/2009callforpapers.cfm\">Proposal Guidelines<\/a>, I found the guideline for projection requirements rather interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Type of projection\u00e2\u20ac\u201doverhead, slide projector or digital projector (this is for scheduling purposes only). Overhead or slide projectors will be provided by NGS; speakers requiring digital projectors must provide their own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, personally, haven&#8217;t used an overhead or slide projector in many years. In the conferences I&#8217;ve attended recently, I don&#8217;t believe anyone has used a slide projector .\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen an\u00c2\u00a0overhead projector used in a few instances, usually when the speaker used the overhead to write as s\/he was speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, I haven&#8217;t attended\u00c2\u00a0an NGS conference or\u00c2\u00a0an FGS conference, so I can&#8217;t speak directly about the number of speakers who use slide projectors or overhead projectors .\u00a0Nevertheless, in the past couple of yeats, I have attended many local, regional, and national genealogy conferences as well as several professional scientific conferences. Nearly all\u00c2\u00a0speakers used digital projectors.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the technologies\u00c2\u00a0NGS provides &#8211; slide projectors and overhead projectors &#8211; are now approaching obsolescence, it&#8217;s odd that the NGS requires presenters to provide their own digital projectors.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, this too will change.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While checking out the National Genealogical Society (NGS) 2009 Conference in the States Proposal Guidelines, I found the guideline for projection requirements rather interesting: Type of projection\u00e2\u20ac\u201doverhead, slide projector or digital projector (this is for scheduling purposes only). Overhead or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-genealogy-conferences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-yN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}