Scott Bekun is writing a book for O’Reilly Media, due out in October, called Confessions of a Public Speaker. He’s asking for stories of public speaking disasters. I couldn’t help but add a couple of my own.
Story 1: Always Carry a Thumb Drive
I was doing a day-long session on Community Design and had prepared an [...]
Just a scheduling note: I’ll be speaking at An Event Apart in Seattle on Tuesday 5 May. I’m going to dig deeper into the wisdom of crowds in virtual communities ideas I talked about at FOWD and SXSW. Hope to see you there!
Mike Rohde is a designer who attended SXSW last week and filled a notebook with sketches and notes on the panels he attended. Luckily for me, he attended my talk, too.
You can see all his SXSW Sketchnotes here. Thanks, Mike!
Yesterday I gave a fun talk at SXSW. Here are a few photos. As promised, here are the slides.
Related links:
Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception study by Jennifer A. Whitson and Adam D. Galinsky.
Study: Seeing Red, Blue Affects Outcome Of Tasks on NPR.
Radiolab episode: Where am I? Don’t miss the story on fighter pilots.
Yup, I’m heading to Austin for SXSW Interactive again. I’ve been going since it was called SXSW Multimedia, before there was wifi, when we had to walk uphill both ways.
A special behind-the-scenes look at our patent-pending preparation presentation process.
I just wrapped up my presentation at Future of Web Design 2008 NYC and it was a blast! As I promised the crowd, here are my slides (in PDF format). They may not make much sense without me talking around them, but you can still enjoy the dog photos.
I’m really excited about a few upcoming appearances. I’ll be speaking on community and design at some of the best conferences around.
An Event Apart, Chicago, 13-14 October
The Wisdom of Communities
The web’s greatest gift is that it gives everyone a voice, but how you design and manage community features will determine if you get a chorus [...]
Me on stage at VidFest a couple weeks ago. I especially like the blipvert happening to my right. (Subscribe!)
Thanks to Kris Krüg for the photo. Here’s some more.
I’ll be on a panel at Book Expo America tomorrow. Here’s the skinny.
Scaling the New Economies: In Search of Book Publishing’s 2.0 Business Model
As consumers grow increasingly used to consuming an enormous amount of information from countless websites and blogs, for free, what’s the business model for traditional publishers? And how do we compete [...]
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