If you are thinking about submitting a talk for the next Ignite Seattle (March 4th), make sure you get it in by this Friday. We already have a great crop of submissions, but we would love for you to add your own to the mix!
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Do you have an idea for a 5-minute talk that’s been burning inside of you, crying to get out? Or do you have an idea that you think is a little bit crazy, but you’re figuring “what the hell, I’ll submit it anyway”. Today is your lucky day! Submissions for talks at the next Ignite Seattle are open today. We are looking for the next batch of lightning-fast, 5-minute, 20-slide presentations.
If you haven’t been to an Ignite yet, you can check out some of the previous talks on this blog, or at the Ignite Show podcast.
The next Ignite Seattle will be held on March 4th, as a part of Global Ignite Week. There are already 40 Ignites scheduled to be happening world-wide that week, with more still being added. Keep checking back here for more updates. See you in March!
Do you have an idea for a 5-minute talk that’s been burning inside of you, crying to get out? Or do you have an idea that you think is a little bit crazy, but you’re figuring “what the hell, I’ll submit it anyway”. Today is your lucky day! Submissions for talks at the next Ignite Seattle are open today. We are looking for the next batch of lightning-fast, 5-minute, 20-slide presentations. Submission deadline is Friday, February 5th.
If you haven’t been to an Ignite yet, you can check out some of the previous talks on this blog, or at the Ignite Show podcast.
The next Ignite Seattle will be held on March 4th, as a part of Global Ignite Week. There are already 40 Ignites scheduled to be happening world-wide that week, with more still being added. Keep checking back here for updates. See you in March!
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We’re doing a special recession-themed icebreaker tonight, inspired by the Ten Thousand Cents art project. We’ll be handing out sheets of paper with a dollar bill on them (front or back), broken in to a 4×8 grid. Each team of 2 to 3 people will be responsible for re-creating one of the 64 grids. We’ll be providing paper and some drawing materials, but you’re encouraged to bring your own stuff, if you can.
Once the 30 minutes are up, we’ll collect all of the grids, and divide everyone up into two teams, one for each side of the bills. You’ll have 30 seconds to assemble all the grids and tape them to the wall. We’ll leave the drawings up for the rest of the evening so everyone can admire the art work.
We’re starting promptly at 7:30, so make sure you and your team are there on team, and ready to draw! Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight!
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Here are a few upcoming tech events in Seattle. If you’ve got a geek event that you think might interest the Ignite Seattle crowd, let us know!
Tonight!
Seattle Tech Startups
This month’s topic: Monetizing Your Product
- Chris Hopf, Pricewire.com: Understanding Freemium – How to Create and Grow Paying Customers
- Tony Wright, RescueTime: Making Money with a Software Startup: In the Trenches.
Next Week
Social Media Club Seattle – August 18th
From the SMC Seattle site
This month’s Social Media Club Seattle meet-up is coming up, and we hope you’ll join us on August 18th in Seattle at the HL2 offices. This month’s SMC Seattle event includes a memorable social media discussion with Brad who tweets from @Starbucks, Elliott who tweets from @AlaskaAir, and Frank who tweets from @ComcastCares. We’ll have an hour-long program and plenty of time for networking and sharing social media best practices.
Great presentations and networking for the social media set.
Gnomedex – August 20-22nd
Chris Pirillo and the Gnomedex crew put on a heck of show every year here in Seattle and this year is no exception. This year’s speakers include two Ignite alumni, Beth Goza and Amber Case (Ignite Portland) as well as Ignite founder, Bre Pettis. Other speakers include Chris Brogan, Drew Olanoff (#BlameDrewsCancer), and Mark Glaser.
Gnomedex is the premiere geek event in Seattle
Tech Calendars
Having trouble keeping up with the latest local events? Here are a few local calendars that can help keep you up to date.
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Ignite Seattle 7 is happening on August 3rd and talk submissions are open. If you have a 5 minute talk that will inspire, teach or just make people think then throw your hat in the ring. We’ll take ~16 speakers (and no repeats from last time). Get your talk in by July 1st.
We’ve already got two great speakers lined up. First, I’m happy to welcome back Rob “How To Buy A Car” Gruhl with a talk on How To Take Photographs (check out his photos on Flickr ). Second, we’ve lined up Matthew Amster-Burton, local food writer and author of Hungry Monkey (AKA How to raise a foodie).
We had over 500 people in attendance at the last Ignite event in April, with great talks by:
- Jen Zug (Sanity Hacks of a Stay-at-Home Mom),
- Hillel Cooperman (The Secret Underground World of Lego)
- Ron Burk’s viral hit (The Psychology of Incompetence)
If you need inspiration about “How and Why to Give an Ignite Talk,” Scott Berkun can help you out.
Ignite will be held once again at the King Cat Theater (map). We look forward to seeing you there!
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There are many ways to stay up-to-date on the newly revived Ignite Seattle.
Ignite Mailing List – We have an announcement list for keeping you uptodate. We only send out 1-2 mails per month. The content is limited to Ignite news and other similar events from the Ignite community. You can sign up here. Only Ignite organizers can send mail to this list.
IgniteSea on Twitter – If 140 character sound bites are more your speed, follow us @ignitesea.
Ignite Seattle Blog – You’re reading this post on the blog. You can also subscribe via RSS.
Local Seattle Blogs – Seattlest, Seattle 2.0, The Big Blog and Techflash all let their readers know that Ignite was happening.
Ignite Site – Ignites are happening around the world every week. You can keep track of all of them (including Seattle) on the central Ignite site.
See you soon!
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