Ignite Philly Presentation

This is a little bit off-topic for our purposes here at Marketing Neophyte, but I figured some of you might be interested in seeing me embarrass myself babble incoherently give a presentation. Last week at Ignite Philly I talked about the 100k House project, dream child of Chad Ludeman (fellow Neophyte). Chad and I go way back, and I have been blogging on his postgreen site for a while now. So, when he mentioned his distaste for public speaking asked me to do this, I gladly accepted.

The Ignite format allows speakers 20 slides, each of which must rotate after 15 seconds. It makes for a fast paced presentation and some occasionally comical moments. I essentially threw out my entire prepared script just to keep up. Scriptless and hurrying in front of 300+ people can be quite a rush.

Check it out and let me know what you think about the presentation and the event format in the comments.

3 comments ↓

#1 Jarsh on 06.16.08 at 11:52 am

I think the fast pace presentation suits you quite well.

Very well done.

#2 goose on 06.18.08 at 3:00 pm

Did you have to use slides? Just feel like they anchored you a little…still it has to be gratifying to pull off such a successful presentation!

#3 Nic on 06.18.08 at 3:41 pm

The slides are a requirement of the format, and besides I really don’t think I could have lived without commissioning the drawing of Chad as a superhero. I have to say that half the fun of the thing is the speed and the sense of getting dragged along by a runaway slide show.

Of course, speaking unhindered by the slides would make everything looser, and I can’t tell you how much I wish I hadn’t taken that stack of paper onstage with me. Didn’t use it, and it was a major distraction.

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