Announcing Miss NC USA 2010 Nadia S. Moffett speaking at Ignite Raleigh 2
Ignite Raleigh is 8 days aways and the community is buzzing with excitement. Today we’re please to announce that Miss NC USA 2010 Nadia S. Moffett wil be speaking at Ignite Raleigh 2. You can read more about Nadia via her bio below.
Nadia Shirin Moffett of High Point, North Carolina is an active community and business leader. With a passion to empower people, Nadia has found ways to inspire others in her career and in the community. After graduating from The University of North Carolina Greensboro in 2007 where she attained her Bachelors of Science in Marketing and minor in Information Technology, she began her career in a Leadership Path Program for American Express Company, developing and engaging employees in career and performance development. With the launch of Nadia’s foundation in 2008, Make Me A Queen Foundation, which is a not for profit organization with its mission is to inspire young women to reach their full potential, she was able to make an impact in her community and the lives of many young women.
Nadia’s passion and purpose for her role as Miss North Carolina USA is to inspire young women to reach maximum potential in their lives. Her plan is to expand the Make Me A Queen Foundation program to women across the state of North Carolina, driving empowerment, inspiration and growth among young women. She looks forward to continuing her passion for women’s empowerment through her advocacy of Breast and Ovarian Cancer research throughout the state of North Carolina.
Nadia enjoys running 5K and 10K races, writing and reciting poetry, public Speaking and working with youth. She is currently the Vice President of Public Relations for Toastmasters International at American Express, and often competes in public speaking competitions. Nadia is an active supporter and volunteer teacher for Junior Achievement in Greensboro working with Middle School students on Economics for Success.
Nadia is the daughter of Jonathan and Jaleh Estes and one of four siblings, her sister Tahirih is the oldest, and has two younger brothers, Jordan and Gabriel.
Nadia comes from a multicultural family that taught her to embrace diversity and love all mankind. She believes in servant leadership and beginning each day with the end in mind, to inspire passion and purpose for every day both for herself and those around her.
You can follow Nadia on Twitter at @missncusa2010 and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MissNorthCarolinaUSA2010
We’re glad Nadia can join us for Ignite Raleigh 2 and we look forward to seeing her Ignite talk. Read More
Speaker Instructions
If you have been chosen to speak at IgniteRaleigh2, congratulations. Now what? You sold the community on your idea, now you have to plan how to convey it to a large audience at the Lincoln Theater. It is time to prepare your talk and your slides. Here are the instructions and some helpful hints.
Requirements:
1. Create 20 slides to illustrate and support your presentation. The title slide counts as one of the 20.
2. Use this IgniteRaleigh Title Slide (in powerpoint) to begin your presentation. This is the only format requirement. There is no template for your interior slides.
3. Create your presentation in Powerpoint or Keynote.
4. Each slide will show for only 15 seconds and automatically advance.
5. No animation, video or other moving parts on individual slides.
6. No transitions between slides. We will build large presentation decks grouping presentations in order (to be determined) and set auto advance (every 15 seconds).
7. Slides are due Friday, February 26 by 8pm. Speakers will be contacted how to submit slide decks.
Suggestions:
1. Outline your talk and develop your 3-5 main ideas before creating any slides.
2. Create visual slides that illustrate your points.
3. Avoid bullet points. The audience wants to hear what you have to say, not read it from the screen.
4. A tightly scripted talk that requires you to hit slides when they switch requires lots of practice.
5. Practice, practice, practice.
And here’s a video from Ignite Seattle that provides some helpful hints for preparing your presentation.
Announcing 15 Selected Speakers for Ignite Raleigh 2
The votes are in. Drum-roll please…. After several days of intense voting on Ignite presentation topics, we have reached the close of our three week community selection process. There were over 3860 votes from 788 voters on 36 talk proposals. Wow – it’s an understatement to say, we are very excited by the incredible participation from all of you in the Triangle community, and beyond. Our Global Ignite Week event is going to be epic. I know you are all waiting for the big results, so without further ado, here are the selected speakers for Ignite Raleigh 2!
- Charlotte Moore, NerdGirls Unite! Fact: Women Don’t Have to Be Lame
- Natasha Crawford, Using the Principles of Career Advancement to Enhance Your Intimate Relationship
- Lisa Creech Bledsoe, 13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing
- Janet Kennedy, 5 Bucks is Change
- Chris Moody, Everyone Needs A Dumb Guy
- George Smart, Mayberry Modernism – Why the Triangle is America’s Hotspot for Way Cool Houses
- Evan Carroll, What happens to your digital identity after you die?
- David Millsaps, All media is social. You are no expert. Go read McLuhan.
- Jay Dolan, Anti-Social Media: Breaking Connections for Fun and Profit
- Jess Commins, How to save $100+ with a DIY energy audit
- Ryan Boyles, Ignite of The Living Dead!
- Bethany Smith, Presentation Zen, or How to not to be boring while presenting at Ignite
- Jay Cuthrell, The Redneck Guide to Silicon Valley
- Charlotte Goodman-Smith & Christine Fawley, 20 Little-Known Facts about Sex & Pleasure
- Dan Wilson, Why your health is the most important thing you’ll ignore all day
This list includes the results of the top 11 presentations (we had a tie!) voted on by the public plus 4 additional wild-card presentations that we chose within the team. The co-organizers of Ignite Raleigh, Wayne, Jeff, Kipp and myself want to congratulate all of the selected speakers. Equally, we wish to thank all of the people who submitted their ideas for consideration. We think there were so many great ideas in the batch. Now, it’s preparation time, everyone! (Don’t worry: Tips and guidance are forthcoming)
With dynamic featured speakers and this group of fun, creative, informative and though-provoking presentations, Ignite Raleigh 2 is sure to entertain and enlighten the Triangle on March 3rd. We can’t wait. Get Fired UP!
Read MoreAnnouncing Ignite Raleigh 2 featured speakers and voting ends tomorrow
If you watched some of the Twitter conversations yesterday, then you know that we’re switching things up a little this year for Ignite Raleigh 2. Last year we had a total of 15 speakers, 10 were community voted and 5 featured speakers. This year we’re going to have a total of 17 speakers. The 17 speakers will include the top ten community voted from voting.igniteraleigh.com, four community speakers picked by the organizing team and 3 featured speakers. Today we’re excited to announce the 3 featured speakers for Ignite Raleigh 2.
1. Elizabeth Gardner @WRALweathergal
Elizabeth Gardner serves as the Meteorologist for WRAL_TV. Her Professional Experience includes: 1998 to present: meteorologist, WRAL-TV; 1995 to 1998: weather anchor, KXLY-TV, Spokane, Wash.; 1994-1995: meteorologist, WECT-TV, Wilmington, N.C.; 1990 to 1994: reporter, WGHP-TV, High Point, N.C. Elizabeth’s Ignite talk will be “Day in the life of a meteorologist who gets up at 3am. ” You can read more about Elizabeth here: http://www.wral.com/rs/bio/1014857/
2. Henry Copeland @HC
photo by:RachelC
Henry Copeland is the founder/CEO of BlogAds. BlogAds connects 2,500 influential blogs advertisers with blog readers and the social media elite. Henry’s Ignite talk will be on “20 rules for start-ups” You can read more about Henry here: http://weblog.blogads.com/2008/06/11/henry-copeland-bio/
3. Laurie Ruettimann @lruettimann
Laurie Ruettimann is a seasoned and cynical HR professional with over a decade of experience in Fortune 500 organizations. Laurie’s Ignite talk will be on ”Why My Cat Can Get a Job Before You.” You can read more about Laurie here: punkrockhr.com/about
A big thanks to our featured speakers. Returning as host/MC is Zach Ward. “Fire it up” once again.
Tomorrow is the last day of voting for the top 10 on voting.igniteraleigh.com. Good luck and we’ll see you on Wednesday, March 3, for Ignite Raleigh 2, a part of Global Ignite Week.
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Read MoreHot Topics To Get Fired Up!
We’re half way there. Over 300 people have registered to attend Ignite Raleigh 2 in the last week! We’re well on the way to blowing the roof off Lincoln Theatre in downtown Raleigh North Carolina on March 3rd. Raleigh is on fire, exploding with so much energy and creative ideas that cannot be extinguished. The voting for Ignite talks has been ferocious. We have exceeded the volume of votes for Ignite Raleigh 1 with the current batch of presentation ideas. We’ve had 2192 votes over the last three weeks on 36 talk proposals compared with 1195 total votes on the top 10 talks from Ignite Raleigh 1. And the topics and votes keep streaming in. It’s been incredible to see some of the ranking ideas burn up the charts and into the top ten after being introduced only a week ago. Clearly Raleigh is excited about sharing ideas. And how.
The team and I want to share a bit more about the selection process. We have provided the community voting platform for the last 20 odd days – which is set to close on February 17th. From all of the talk proposals submitted, the top 10 voted on by you will be given the opportunity to speak at Ignite night. The organizing team will also select a handful of additional speakers (current thought is 4) that we think are also great ideas. We do this to provide an opportunity to speakers with great ideas but perhaps not the largest social network. Lastly, we will have three featured speakers to share cool experiences and unique perspectives. We want to cram as much into two hours as you can possibly absorb.
We encourage you to come out and bring your friends to the Lincoln Theatre on March 3rd 2010. Enjoy a cold beverage, listen to passionate people share their ideas in 5 minutes and meet some cool people. See you there.
There are a few things you can do this week.
- Mark your calendars, March 3rd 2010. If you are able to attend, consider reserving your seat today. This is a hot ticket. And did we mention it’s free! If you can’t attend, please leave your ticket for someone else. Ignite Raleigh 3 will be here before you know it.
- Be sure to vote! Help your favorite speaker and the great topics, whether Hot, New or otherwise awesome. Let your voice be heard.
- Show your support for local education through a deserving charity project with Donors Choose. It’s a great way to help our schools with the challenges that are most urgent right now. We will tell you more about this effort in another blog post this week. Stay tuned.
Get fired up Raleigh! Global Ignite Week is coming in March!
Global Ignite Week is both an in-person and online phenomenon. Local Ignites will stream live video during the event, and those videos will be archived on the new Ignite video site that is being launched in conjunction with the event. At least 500 five-minute session videos will be available on the new site when it debuts.
Tim O’Reilly shares his thoughts on the rapid-fire format of Ignite and it’s influence on conferences.
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