10 Ways to Promote your Ignite Presentation Topic before July 20

Posted by Wayne Sutton in Featured Articles, Updates on 07 6th, 2009 | View Comments

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Last week the presentation pitches and voting kicked off for Ignite Raleigh. Since then, 32 presentations, 308 voters, and 1215 votes have been made and we’re excited to see the winning submissions. The top 10 presentations will have the opportunity to present at Ignite Raleigh. Here’s a list of the current top 10 Ignite Raleigh topics.


Title	Topic	Votes	Created
Everything I Know About Web 2.0, I Learned From the Disney Marathon	Speaker Application	308	2009-07-02 21:35:22
saving and searching wines via Twitter. Never forget a wine again! Sip, save, Search!	Speaker Application	210	2009-07-02 16:32:37
Creating Grassroots Wi-Fi Mesh Network for Downtown Raleigh	Speaker Application	92	2009-07-02 15:06:14
why 9 to 5 is inhumane	Speaker Application	59	2009-07-02 14:35:03
Bootstrapping – When profit isn’t optional.	Speaker Application	55	2009-07-02 17:10:13
Building a Learning Machine	Speaker Application	54	2009-07-02 14:30:00
What Would Jesus Tweet? and Other Hilarious Musings on Religion & Social Networks	Speaker Application	46	2009-07-02 19:02:59
19 Reasons why the Triangle is better than Silicon Valley	Speaker Application	43	2009-07-01 19:42:51
Mind Control on the Web	Speaker Application	31	2009-07-02 13:56:26
3 Secrets of Effective Nomading	Speaker Application	30	2009-07-02 18:17:13

After opening the voting, we disabled anonymous voting to help even the playing filed for all suggested topics. Voting ends at 11:59pm ET on July 20, which is plenty of time for some of the lower ranked topics to gain momentum. Here are 9 ways to promote your Ignite Presentation before voting ends.

Blog about your topic asking for votes and feedback.
Email or DM your friends and family asking for votes.
Tweet about your topic: MuddyDogCoffee: C’mon, people, vote for our talk at IgniteRaleigh! You don’t actually have to come listen (but we hope you will) http://tr.im/r4I1
Leave comments on the Voting (http://voting.igniteraleigh.com/) site about how your topic is better
Record a video showing how you plan to present at Ignite Raleigh or how you’re practicing for Ignite Raleigh
Share your blog post or video on social networks such as Facebook
Contact the organizers and say you should be a featured speaker. But we probably won’t listen.
Post your topic on the Ignite Raleigh Facebook fanpage wall here: Ignite Raleigh
Leave a comment in this blog post.
These are just a few examples and remember if you’re not in the top 10 today you still have time to catch up .