Entries tagged with “public speaking”

It's day two at the CMA - Canadian Marketing Association - National Convention and Trade Show (full disclosure: I am the co-chair of this event). And, after hearing Avinash Kaushik (Occam's Razor, author of Web Analytics - An Hour A...

I flagged this BNET video to watch a little while back, but never got to it... until now. It's pretty good, and it covers some big ideas around presentation structure and performance. Give it a watch: BNET Video - Present...

Welcome to episode #103 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. I'm getting a little cold on the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society Facebook Group, and thinking it might be best to connect through my personal...

Six Pixels of Separation has been getting lots of link love and attention courtesy of Garr Reynolds. Garr is the author of the amazing book, Presentation Zen, and has a Blog by the same name. I had a conversation with...

Welcome to episode #102 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. This is an entire episode with Garr Reynolds who has the most-awesome Blog (and book of the same name), Presentation Zen. We discuss the power of...

I'm very excited to announce here that I will be speaking at a just-announced Power Within event on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in Winnipeg at the Winnipeg Convention Centre - Power Within Winnipeg. The full-day event features some amazing speakers...

A couple of months back I wrote a book review for Presentation Zen - Simples Ideas On Presentation Design And Delivery by Garr Reynolds and posted it here: Get Yourself To Presentation Zen. It is, without a doubt, one of...

If we're all trying to get more people to read Blogs and listen to Podcasts, but our core audience is fellow Bloggers and Podcasters, how do we ever get this content out to the mainstream and bust the echo chamber...

Just this week I gave my full-day seminar on Social Media Marketing for IAB Canada - Interactive Advertising Bureau - in Montreal (I'm doing it again in Toronto next week on Wednesday, March 19th and then in Vancouver on Friday,...

My flight to TED 2008 got delayed because of the weather. When I walked into the event and finished registration, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was about to take the stage. Little did I know that her TED Talk was to...

In the past few days, I've given a lot of public speeches on the Digital Marketing landscape to some varied audiences (including university students, government and big business). I'm continually amazed by how new all of these channels are to...

There are a couple of thoughts rattling around my noggin' today. For perspective, I'm currently bouncing around on a United flight from Halifax to Chicago (lots of turbulence). The flight was severely delayed, so I have no idea if I...

How many times do you have that "need to smack myself in the head" feeling for not having thought of an idea? Well, here we go again. I'm pretty excited to be heading out to Monterey, California next week to...

Do you have a passion for presenting? Are you already feed deep in Blogs like Presentation Zen, Great Public Speaking and Guy Kawasaki's How To Change The World? Have you read the book Give Your Speech, Change The World by...

If you're interested in volunteering for the Power Within in Halifax, here's your chance. The Power Within is a full-day of leadership and motivation with some amazing speakers. The Halifax event is taking place on February 26th, 2008 at the...

Here's a quick self-promotional Blog posting: The Power Within is coming to Halifax on February 26th, 2007 at the Halifax Metro Centre for the first time - Power Within Halifax. This all day leadership event will be headlined by the...

TED is the big conference. Once a year, one thousand people pay a lot of money to jumpstart their brains. TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design and is happening this year - February 27th - March 1st, 2007 in Monterey,...

There have been so many unique moments that have happened to me this week that made me reflect on three major moments in my life. The first, was my decision to leave University after a semester to pursue a career...

As someone who loves to get up in front of a group of people and talk about the power of Digital Marketing, connecting with today's consumer, and the magic of Personal Branding, I spend a good chunk of time subscribing...