As I blogged earlier, I’m going to be giving another Ignite talk next week called “Magic at the Democratic National Convention.”
The goal: to take you inside the mechanics of certain “magical” moments of the DNC. Building off my study of “Social Magic” I gave as an Ignite talk two months ago, with this talk I’m [...]
What was magical about the DNC?
September 10th, 2008 · Comments
Tags: Conferences
Ignite NYC II - Next Monday
September 10th, 2008 · Comments
There’s a lot to be excited about next week. Web 2.0 Expo, Web2Open, the @ShakeShack/nextNY party… the list goes on and on.
I’m especially excited for Ignite NYC II, being held on Monday at the New World Stages (where the NYC TV & Film Festival is held) from 7:15 - 11:30pm.
Two months ago, Brady Forrest came [...]
Tags: Conferences · nextNY
Social Magic
July 30th, 2008 · Comments
Last night, I gave a talk at Ignite NYC (thanks Brady for pulling it together!). Above is the video of my talk and below more detail on what I talked about:
In college, I studied the concept of leadership pretty intensely (thesis here) — and, while that was challenging enough, the concept of Charisma, one inherently [...]
Tags: Entrepreneurship · Leadership · Web-trends
Ignite NYC - 7/29/08
July 18th, 2008 · Comments
Every so often, there’s an event I have to tell you about, and Ignite NYC is one of those. Founded by Brady Forest and Bre Pettis, this event is like a traveling TED Conference. I’ve seen Ignite in San Francisco, and let me tell you: it’s quite an event.
Here are the deets from the Facebook [...]
Tags: Conferences · New York City


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