Boring Life Note: Where I’m Speaking This Fall

August 28th, 2008, 1 Comment »

Just a quick post on upcoming speaking gigs. I’m lightening up on the speaking a bit, what with all the book-writing, house-building and, you know, working, I’ve got to get done.

  • I’m going to Toronto for a corporate thing on September 9, in case anybody wants to have coffee.
  • On September 11, Julie and I are speaking at the Internet Marketing Conference.
  • On September 27, Julie and I are giving a talk at BarCamp Vancouver. It’s not about marketing (saints be praised): “How to Be a Laptop Bedouin - Julie and Darren are going to start a conversation about living where your work isn’t, and what tools and techniques you need to live in Africa and work in Yaletown.”
  • October 24 to 27, I’m giving various talks and workshops at the Surrey International Writer’s Festival Conference.
  • On October 24, I’ll also be giving a short talk at the inaugural, uh, instantiation of Interesting Vancouver. I’ve come up with a new topic for that: “How I Enumerate My Life”. Hopefully it’ll be more entertaining than it sounds.
  • On November 14, Julie and I are giving a talk at a CPRS conference right here in Victoria.

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Upcoming Events

April 8th, 2008, 3 Comments »

Just a quick post to list some places I’ll be speaking at, and some other events that might be of interest to you, my dear, dear readers.

First, a couple of Vancouver events. I can’t attend these, but I wanted to spread the word:

Upcoming events where I’m speaking include:

  • April 14 - Open Web Vancouver - I’m pleased to get a chance to give my 1100 Stacies talk in Vancouver. It’ll be somewhat unorthodox for a fairly technical conference, but hopefully it’ll provide a, uh, refreshing change of pace.
  • April 22 - 25 - New Comms Forum - Just sitting on a panel at this event in Santa Rosa, California. I’ve never been to this event before, though, so I’m pleased to get a chance. I’m also hoping to scoot down to spend one day at Web 2.0 Expo. I must try to finagle media accreditation there.
  • April 30 - Go-To-Market Roundtable - Running a morning session for the BCTIA.
  • May 6 - 9 - DocTrain West 2008 - Speaking at a couple of sessions (and maybe sitting on a panel) at this Vancouver conference.
  • May 8 - BCAIM Luncheon - Julie and I are giving a Social Media Marketing 101 session.
  • May 12 - HTCE - Julie and I are talking on “Seven Risks of Social Media Marketing”.
  • May 22 - An event I probably shouldn’t mention, because I don’t think it’s been announced yet.
  • June 17 - 18 - Web Content 2008 - Running a couple of sessions at this Chicago event.

After that, things pretty much calm down until the fall.

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