Entries Tagged as 'Events'
How to crush it at conferences (April 21st, 2010 - 1,241)
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 - 1,820)
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 - 2,442)
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 [...]
Melbourne Google Wave Meetup Report (December 10th, 2009 - 3,498)
Pete Williams and I hosted the first Melbourne Google Wave Meetup last week at the Deloitte Digital offices, with help from Merric Reese and David Warwick. It was great to get 80 people in a room to share stories of what everyone has been using Wave for and also what will be possible in the future. Doctor Wave joined us and [...]
Realtime Human Visualisations (November 12th, 2009 - 2,239)
Facilitation used to be quite simple – you survey and define your demographic, and then you serve up the things that the demographic wants to see. These days though more people value diversity (of age, gender, but most importantly across dicliplines and topics) and that means we need new communication structures that move beyond the [...]
