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My Ignite at LeWeb 2011 – The Future Way of Working: The Distributed Company

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Last week I was privileged to be one of the few people on stage at the LeWeb conference in Paris, and I gave an Ignite presentation about The Future Way of Working: The Distributed Company. I go into more depth on how Auttomatic works in this post from earlier in the year.

If you’ve never given a presentation in the Ignite format: 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each (read more about the Ignite format on O’Reilly’s website), I strongly urge you to – it will challenge you as a presenter and force you to be very succinct and practice quite a bit to stay with the timing. I’ve presented several Ignites in Italian this year, but this was the first one in English. Continue reading →

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Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge

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This past Saturday I presented “Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge” at KnowCamp, an Italian BarCamp in Modena about knowledge and the web.

If you’re not familiar with the Ignite format, it’s very exciting for both speakers and spectators. 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each slide. It’s a timing nightmare and you’re always racing against the clock, but it’s a great exercise to really concentrate on the meat of your presentation and remove the extras. (I gave another Ignite earlier this year on the New Digital Company: Distributed, Online, Transparent)

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