I haven’t really posted this week, in part due to laziness, and in part because I was spending the morning times I usually use for blogging for preparing my presentation for Podcamp Halifax, which was a Social Media unconference that happened today.
In a nutshell, it was 200 geeks getting together to talk about all things web and social media. And by geeks, I dont just mean balding middle aged men who see the light of day several times a year, but a whole range of men and women, some who were younger than me, and some who were probably in their 70’s. It was a fantastic experience, I got to meet a ton of people who I had been following on twitter, and a bunch of new people as well.
Anyways, my presentation: I signed up to give the introductory “What is Social Media” talk to people who were interested in this stuff, but really didn’t know what it was all about. Basically, I figured all the really smart professional people were giving presentations on their specific areas of expertise, and so someone like me was a perfect match for this kind of presentation that just involved talking about things generally. Oh and look, here’s the presentation:
When I gave it in person, all the slides were linked together, so I didn’t have to go through each thing one by one, but rather could just jump to the topic people were interested in and asking questions about. It seemed to work well. I got through about 1/5th of the content I prepared, mainly becuase we talked about twitter for 20 minutes. It’s all good though, people wanted to learn about Twitter, so that’s what they learned about. After presenting in the morning, I spent the rest of the day going to other’s presentations, taking pictures, and posting on twitter a lot. Here’s a panoramic photo I took during one of the sessions:
So yeah, it isn’t like well merged or anything, but it’s kinda cool anyways.
And now I am off to bed, I have to work tomorrow morning at 6:30am. Not fun.
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