10 Ways to Promote your Ignite Presentation Topic before July 20
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 | Status | 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 .
How are you promoting your Ignite Raleigh talk?
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