Video of moi!?
Oct 31st
Unfortunately so! This is the video from the talk I did at Ignite Cardiff 3. I won’t go into detail, other than the basics:
- 20 Slides
- Auto rotate every 15 seconds
- Karaoke Style (Claire and Neil made the slides, I had 2 days to write the “content” for the talk)
Enjoy (if you can!)
Ignite Cardiff #3
Oct 17th
Ok, so, last Thursday I did another talk at Ignite Cardiff, (the 3rd Ignite in Cardiff, my second Ignite talk). This talk was different to the previous one, because it was a “Karaoke” talk. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the people watching), this didn’t involve any singing on my behalf (although, thanks to earlier speakers, the singing was covered!) Karaoke presentations involve the organisers (the amazing @Claire_s and @neil_raygun, from @boxuk and @nocci) creating a set of random slides, and myself and Rob (the other Karaoke speaker) having 3 days to create our talks (on anything we like) to match the slides.
Needless to say, 3 days of prep turned in to one night or mad googling (whilst England were playing….distractions!) to try and find something that would match the most random slides ever. Not helped by the fact that one of the slides, I can’t look at because I will start to giggle, and those of you who know me will know that once I start, I can’t stop.You’ll notice in the videos / images linked below that I’m holding my book. Yes, its naff doing a presentation with notes to prompt you, but my memory is poo, especially on a subject I know / knew nothing about it!! 
Cut a long story short, Ignite Cardiff 3 was amazing, as always. All the speakers were awesome, anyone who has talked at Ignite before will appreciate how hard it is to stand up in front of 200 people and talk, so fair play to everyone that takes part.
Hopefully (or not) my speech will be online in Video format very soon, but for now, check out these videos of other Ignite speakers from the evening. or have a gander through some of the photos.
Ace all round
Mark
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Ignite Cardiff 3
Oct 14th
It’s Ignite Cardiff 3 tomorrow evening, at the Wales Millennium Centre (18.30 start). For those of you who haven’t heard of Ignite, or if you want more information about the event, try one of the following links :
http://www.cardiffwebscene.com/
So, at the last Ignite, I did a talk on Twitter trends for Cardiff, and I really enjoyed it! So this time, I’m doing whats called “Ignite Karaoke”. To quote Claire….
When we came to announcing dates for Ignite Cardiff #3, along with new speakers a couple of our previous Ignite speakers got in touch saying they had such a good time before that they’d love to speak at Ignite again – but also wanted to give the newbies a chance.
Not wanting to say no I discovered that a lot of Ignites in the States run ‘Ignite Karaoke’ presentations, where I (as Ignite organiser) would put together a slide deck of random slides and our volunteers (in this case the lovely Mark Stevenson – @mstevenson83 and Rob May – @robwmay) then have to talk to my slides. They can talk about anything they like, but they only see the slides 3 days in advance of the event so have very little time to prepare.
And right now, I’m sat here with 20 slides in front of me, and absolutely no idea what to talk about. SOOOOO, if you have nothing better to do tomorrow evening, come along to Ignite and watch all the other amazing speakers…..and then have a laugh at my expense as I try to bumble my way through, what could well be, the most embarrassing 5 minutes of my life so far!!
Hopefully I’ll be able to upload the slides on Friday, with an outline of what I talked about……but that’s a long way away….!!
Wish me luck (I’m sure Rob could do with some luck too if his slides are like mine) !!
M