Bring Me To Your Conference or Corporate Event
In addition to my work as a technologist and marketer, I regularly do presentations, seminars and hands-on workshops. These generally focus on marketing, social media, blogs and emerging technology. In fact, I recently completed a book on social media marketing.
My presentations are energetic, interactive and based in the real world, using concrete examples often drawn from the audience. Before I got into technology and marketing, I completed a BFA in Theatre, so I know how to perform--to seize an audience's attention and hold it. My presentations tell stories, and my slides set the scenes.
I've also worked as a technical writer, so it's second nature for me to translate geek speak to plain English.
Common Speaking Topics
Here are some topics I've recently spoken on:
- An Introduction to Social Media
A hands-on primer on the new Web--blogs, Facebook and Twitter. - Eight Corporate Blogging Parables
Stories about online communications from inside and outside the corporation. - The Meme Epidemic
What are these virally-transmitted ideas? Who makes them, how do they start and how do they spread? - 1100 Stacies
Social responsibility and how to do (more) good on the Web. Watch the video.
Where I Speak
I've talked to five people in a boardroom, and 500 people in a ballroom. Here are some of the organizations and companies that I've presented to:
- American Marketing Association
- BC Association of Integrated Marketers
- Blog Business Summit
- Business Objects
- Canada School of Public Service
- Cizitenship and Immigration Canada
- Gnomedex
- Mountain Equipment Co-op
- Public Relations Society of America
- QUAY Strategies
- Simon Fraser University
- Translink
Where I'm Speaking Next
Upcoming speaking engagements include:
- Content Convergence, March, 2008
- Net Tuesday, March, 2008
- Open Web Vancouver, April, 2008
- New Communications Forum 2008, April, 2008
- Documentation & Training West, May, 2008
- Web Content 2008, June, 2008
- Internet Marketing Conference, September, 2008
Why I Speak
I got my first dual disc drive IBM PC in 1986, and I've been passionate about technology ever since. While I write about technology professionally and personally, there's no replacing the thrill I get from speaking to and learning from a live audience. I love simplifying the complex--rejigging a metaphor so that the light bulb goes off in somebody's head. That may sound a bit twee, but it's the truth.