Social Media Week this year is Feb13-17, and I’ll be involved in one or two of the events in the London wing of the event, specifically speaking at the Ignite event on Feb 15, starting around 7pm:<\/p>\n
Ignite started in Seattle about 5 years ago and is the brainchild of Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for O\u2019Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Makerbot.com. Basically, it\u2019s a presentation style where you are asked to present about something you love for 5 minutes. 20 slides. 15 seconds each. Think Pecha Kucha. That\u2019s all you need to know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This edition of Ignite is being organised by Ubelly, they’re looking for nominations for other speakers, and of course you can keep an eye out for tickets on their Ignite page<\/a> as well as the main Social Media Week London<\/a> page in the near future.<\/p>\n
And the topic? It’ll be about a brand new Olympic sport that’s perfectly suited for the British IT industry and world-class BOFH’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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