My first ever public speech!
I’m super excited to announce that I’ll be giving my first ever public presentation on a topic I’m super interested in!
I’ve done numerous presentations in the past, ranging from business-oriented to educational ones. But this one is different: it’s public! Meaning anybody can attend which brings a whole lot of different flavors to it. I’ve previously written on how much I love giving presentations, but I’m not interested in giving tired old boring presentation this time. You know, I’ve been studying for a while the art of giving winning presentations: reading relevant blogs, books, and even practicing some of that on the presentations I’ve been giving in-house. It’s really exciting to finally get to put those skills to a bigger test with bigger and more diverse audience.
Plus, how wonderful is it to get to talk about a phenomenon as huge and relevant to our lives as Web 2.0? For the past year or so, I’ve been knee-deep interested in this topic, reading and following the news surrounding it on a daily basis. Since then, I’ve grown so fond of the power and influence it will have on our lives. For this reason, I decided it’s time to share all the knowledge I’ve accumulated with other people in order to spread and raise awareness about it.
So, about 2 months ago, I’ve contacted a local non-profit organization called ITDigest and expressed my desire to give out a public presentation about this subject. Something that is very introductory designed to enhance people’s overall knowledge of the principles and technologies surrounding it. They were more than willing to arrange that for me and even suggested it would be done in a local university. Ever since, I’ve scattered the web doing comprehensive research, gathering and putting together my material in a format that can be understood by novice and expert users alike.
And now: it’s show time! March 7th, at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. For dear readers of this blog who won’t be able to attend, I’m going to have the whole presentation recorded and uploaded here soon after the presentation.
Anyways, wish me luck!
p.s., I’ve designed the picture above to be first in my presentation slides. Here is a bigger version of it, you’re free to use it with proper attribution.
Update 12/3/07: The presentation has been rescheduled to 15/4/07.
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February 20th, 2007 at 1:19 am
I will keep my fingers crossed for you, my friend. Good luck :)
February 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
NIce design
and wish u all the luck in your presentation
February 20th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I’m sure you did well! How did it feel?
February 20th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Hey Tisha, good to see you around again :)
Maybe I threw you off when I said “So, about 2 months ago .. ”
hey .. I didn’t do the presentation yet lol
February 21st, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Web 2.0 is a great theme, but it also depends on your audience, if they are business people (old) that have no clue what web 2.0 is then you will have an easy ride, after all there are several amusing stories out there (wikipedia, blogs, myspace).
Good luck.
February 21st, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Most of them will have no clue, I’m sure. It amazes me how much this evolution has yet to be understood or even heard about in this part of the world. And that’s exactly my aim. However, due to the diverse nature of this topic, my presentation will just touch the general concepts and not dig deep into the inner-working of each one, such as the The Long Tail.