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What I learned at Seattle Ignite 6

Posted on April 30, 2009 in Public Speaking, Seattleby Scott Berkun

The cool thing about Ignite Seattle, beyond the crazy fun format (5 mins, 20 slides, 15 seconds a slide),…

Speaking at Ignite Seattle, Wed Night

Posted on April 28, 2009 in On Tour, Seattleby Scott Berkun

Ignite is always an awesome time. There is something so fun about the crowd that comes, and then of…

(Seattle) Presentation Camp – Tommorow!

Posted on April 3, 2009 in On Tour, Public Speaking, Seattleby Scott Berkun

Last call for presentation camp – a brand new unconference event for people interested in pitching, presenting and public…

(Seattle) Presentation camp schedule up!

Posted on March 25, 2009 in On Tour, Public Speaking, Seattleby Scott Berkun

Saturday April 4th Kathy Gill and I are running the first ever Seattle presentation camp, an unconference for people…

(Seattle) Presentation Camp – Saturday April 4th

Posted on March 10, 2009 in Seattle, Teaching/Trainingby Scott Berkun

Thanks to the kick-ass work of Kathy Gill, the first ever presentation camp in Seattle is scheduled to run…

(Seattle) Free training for unemployed tech workers

Posted on February 2, 2009 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

The good folks at Bellevue’s Construx software have a special offer for folks in the tech-sector recently laid off.…

(Seattle) InfoCamp 2008 this weekend

Posted on September 25, 2008 in design, Seattleby Scott Berkun

Hadn’t heard of this before, but there’s a design unconference here in Seattle this weekend: InfoCamp 2008. $50 gets…

(Seattle) Win a ticket to BizJam, July 9 & 10

Posted on July 7, 2008 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

I mentioned the 2nd annual Bizjam conference a few weeks ago – It’s this week! And as a bonus…

Great event for Seattle independents – Bizjam ’08

Posted on June 18, 2008 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

This is an independent’s dream event – a local business networking group runs an affordable ($390) two day event,…

(Seattle) Full day courses – interested?

Posted on January 22, 2008 in Seattle, Teaching/Trainingby Scott Berkun

Hi folks – you may know I make most of my living performing lectures and teaching workshops. I love…

(Seattle) next ignite, tommorow night

Posted on August 7, 2007 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

O’reilly’s ignite event, a fun gathering of geekish entertainment, is on again – same venue (Capital Hill’s CHAC), but…

Seattle Bizjam conference, this weekend: Recommended

Posted on June 5, 2007 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

My friends at the awesome business networking group Biznik are running their first large scale event this weekend, called…

Seattle ignite, tommorow night

Posted on April 4, 2007 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

Seattle ignite is a fun tech-sector event run by Brady Forest from O’Reilly, and tommorow’s 3rd session looks to…

Seattle: Ignite, Tuesday 8:30pm

Posted on February 12, 2007 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

The best new tech sector event in Seattle is the Ignite series Brady Forest started a few months ago.…

Mindcamp 3.0: report

Posted on November 13, 2006 in Seattle, Teaching/Trainingby Scott Berkun

Seattle mindcamp was this past weekend and surprise: they let me in! Here’s the short report: The good: New…

How to know it’s November in Seattle

Posted on November 2, 2006 in humor, Seattleby Scott Berkun

Seattle Mind Camp 3.0: Registration open

Posted on August 28, 2006 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

Mindcamp, Seattle’s un-conference event, opened registration today. The conference is Nov 11th/12, Saturday/Sunday, $29.00. I had fun at the…

Seattle: MindCamp 2.0 registration open

Posted on April 7, 2006 in Seattleby Scott Berkun

Mindcamp is back – Saturday April 29th /30th. A choose-your-own-adventure conference based on popular foo and bar camps. Info…

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