Entries Tagged as 'Events'
How to crush it at conferences (April 21st, 2010 - 410 views)
Re-posting some notes that I wrote for Edward Harran about how I approach conferences. More important than the session topics is the people doing them: You should think of an event like a magnet for good people. You can meet most of the important people in an industry in a single day. In a single [...]
Ignite Melbourne #ignitemel (April 16th, 2010 - 391 views)
Ignite is a worldwide geek event. Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. Mark Mansour, Ned Dwyer and John Barton ran an awesome Ignite event in Melbourne recently, and the videos are all online now for everyone to see. Take a look at [...]
My university commencement speech for 2010 (March 1st, 2010 - 932 views)
This week is the beginning of university life for thousands of recent high school graduates. There is lots of fun to be had, lots of learning, and time to build the vision of where you want to be in the next few years. I have been asked what I would recommend doing – I don’t [...]
That SXSWi 2010 was a lot of fun (February 23rd, 2010 - 701 views)
SXSW is an annual conference held in March in Austin, Texas that has a massive interactive stream. I attened and then spent some time in San Francisco and Whistler/Vancouver. The schedule was ridiculous – but it was heaps of fun and I met lots of awesome people. This slideshare captures quotes of some of the highlights [...]
There’s a crowd in every photo now (December 22nd, 2009 - 1,273 views)
In Washington yesterday a snowball fight flashmob formed through Twitter, somebody decided throwing snowballs at Hummers would be fun, and it was! ..until one of them pulled up and a plainclothes detective pulled his gun on them! Every day now there are photos like these in our newspapers – a crowd of people in a [...]
