I just registered for participation in Blogging Idol 2010. The registration is open. Join us, it will be fun!
I hope that this year I will blog regularly for the contest, unlike last year when I only gave birth to one post!
My last year’s post for Blogging Idol (by the way, I made one mistake in it: Google Adwords is not exactly free but pay-per-click, and sometimes they give free trials, i.e. credit a newly created account with $50 or $100).
Power Point Karaoke (shouldn’t this be called Keynote Karaoke. For shame!) at the Drake
A health & wellness event for everyone.
Part of Social Media Week.
To close out Social Media Week Toronto, we are going to be hosting a rocking session of PowerPoint Karaoke. The rules of Powerpoint Karaoke are simple. A set of presenters and local social media luminaries will be asked to play the role of an earnest expert speaker on topics such as ‘How to succeed at social media without really trying‘, or ‘What to do when someone on the internet is wrong‘, or ‘My sensational life as a japanese tentacle porn star‘ etc.* Each presenter will be given exactly 5 minutes to present and a set of slides they have never seen before. Each presentation deck will be stuffed with facinating imagery, emphatic infographics and genuine business-speak bullet points drawn from real powerpoint decks we’ve found on the internet. Naturaly, in the hands of a less-skilled presenter, some of this totally random content might seem somewhat ‘tangential’ to the topic at hand. But as you will see, these challenges will be no problem to our powerpoint rockstars.
At the end of the evening the audience or jury will be asked to vote for the winning presentations based on humour, style points, or general awesomeness.
Register here: Power Point Karaoke at the Drake
Follow the discussion on Twitter: #PPTKTO
Joe de Villa, whose blogging skills I always admire, will talk about blogging at tonight’s Nature Network Pub Night here in Toronto
The pub night is being held at Fionn MacCool’s at University and Adelaide (the full address is 181 University). People will start assembling there for dinner, drinks and conversation at 6:00 p.m. with the presentations starting at 7:00 p.m..
Posted in business, education, get-together
Tagged blogging, events, Joe de Villa, Nature Network, networking, social media, toronto
In Dave Forde’s blog: http://profectio.com/vote-who-is-canada%E2%80%99s-most-influential-man-in-social-media
Dave Forde, the man behind Toronto Tech Week, asks us to vote in a poll for the most influential woman in Canadian social media.
I voted for Sacha Chua.
Now it’s your turn!
Vote in Dave Forde’s blog
Toronto:
February 11 Cloud Computing conference
February 21-22 PodCamp Toronto
March 18 Social Media Showdown
April 7-8 Mesh Conference
April 21 Shop Online 2009
April 25 FITC’s Get a Job Day
Quebec-city
May 31 – June 2 eHealth 2009
Posted in business, networking
Tagged cloud computing, digital, events, fitc, media, mesh, podcamp, social media, toronto
Unfortunately, the verbal part of the presentation does not play very well on its own, without the visuals and magnetic presence of Colleen herself. Still, might be helpful to some people.
Tagged Canadian business, leadership, media, social media
