Speaking

Speaking, or rather, interacting with a live group of people is one thing I do love to do.  Suffice to say I am pretty passionate about the topics I get asked to speak on so I’m usually a bit bummed out when it all comes to an end each time.  Fortunately with social media many connections are usually made during these interactive sessions – an approach which I am often singing the benefits of.

My topics usually center around where social media meets business meets the power of community.  Here are a few of my recent past speaking engagements mixed in with some future ones on the horizon.

Past Speaking Engagements:

PRSA – Understanding Real-time Media

– 11/15/07 – Portland, OR

PRSA – Guerilla PR Technology Practices & Working With Social Media

– San Jose

Social Media Breakfast Boston

– 10/16/08 – Boston

BlogOrlando

– 09/25-09/27/08 – Orlando

The Canadian Institute Social Media Conference

– 12/02-12/03/09 – Toronto

Word of Mouth Marketing Summit 2008

– 11/13/08  Las Vegas

The Bold And The Blogging

– 3/24/09 – Toronto

eMetrics Toronto

– 4/1/09 – Toronto

Social Media Summit Canada

– 4/27 – 4/30/09 – Toronto – (Conference C0-chair with Dave Fleet)

eMetrics San Jose

– 5/4-5/7/09 – San Jose

Social Communications

– 5/12/09 – NYC

New Marketing Summit Boston

– 10/8/09 – Boston

The BIG Conference

– 10/13/09 – Portland, ME

AAF-CLE: Listening & Engaging

– 10/20/09 – Cleveland

CCPRF breakfast – Measuring PR and Social Media

– 10/21/09 – Toronto

NACCM Customers 1st Conference

– 11/2-11/5 – Phoenix

Marketing Magazine’s Engagement Marketing Conference

– 11/24/2009 – Toronto (Conference Keynote)

Online Revealed

– 01/25-27/10 – Montreal

Infopresse – Web participatif

- 02/03/10 – Montreal (Conference Keynote)

Executing Social Media

– 02/09/10 – Toronto

CMA Atlantic Marketing Conference

– 03/04/10 – Halifax

In addition, here is a link to some of my recent presentations

on Slideshare.  I actually have a second Slideshare account with additional presentations as well.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements:

One of the amazing things about conferences is getting together face-to-face with so many online friends.  It truly shows the power of social media in creating meaningful and truly rewarding friendships.  Here are just a few of the many photos

captured of these great reunions.

I’ve also recently tried experimenting with Prezi

as a new way of displaying information while speaking.  It’s a pretty neat new Web 2.0 app so you may want to check it out for yourself.

Here are some of the upcoming speaking engagements in 2010:

SOCAP Symposium & Social Media Bootcamp

– 04/25-28/10 – Atlanta

Visibility Marketing Optimization – 05/27/10 – Toronto

CRM Evolution Conference

– 08/02-04/10 – NYC

Audience Feedback:

Another amazing benefit of connecting via social media is the opportunity to get feedback on how you did as a speaker.  Here are a few tweets from my most recent keynote in Toronto.  Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts.