Pecha Kucha Night Belfast
Allen and I attended Pecha Kucha Night Belfast tonight, as part of Belfast Book Festival. The Storytelling theme attracted our attention. What is it? The formula was a new one on me. This is taken from the PechaKucha website: PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images forward automatically and you talk along to the...
Read More12 Great Online Locations to Promote Your Event
The following list is compiled from ways in which we have used online tools to help promote events. (Don’t forget the offline stuff too. Blog post in the making…) Twitter It makes sense that if you’re using Twitter already, you tweet information and links to events you’re running or helping to promote. Tweet often. People who are online at 07:30am may not be online...
Read MoreBook Review: Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
On the 8th of this month we had our first BookCamp event. BookCamp is a business book-club designed to aid skills development, idea generation and networking among local entrepreneurs, professionals and businesspeople. We studied Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, and enjoyed some different perspectives on its usefulness and impact. Take a look at my Amazon...
Read MoreBusiness and Professional Writers in Northern Ireland
ScribeTribe is a Business and Professional Writers’ Network that will launch in Northern Ireland in March 2011. The facilitator is Dawn Baird, Partner in Sensei Learning and Performance. It will be of interest to anyone who writes for a living, whether freelance, running their own business or employed. And, it would also appeal to anyone who writes as a large part of their...
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