Hi everyone! We are still so crazy excited from the big Ignite night in downtown Raleigh this week… we are so pleased with the way the event turned out. The team (Wayne, Jeff and Ryan) would like to thank everyone for the tremendous support! We are so glad the night was such a great experience for everyone. Folks have been asking “when will the videos be posted?” We will post as many as we...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010 Global Movement Spreads Through Raleigh Ignite Raleigh 2 at Lincoln Theatre on March 3 RALEIGH – Zombies, women’s boxing, saving energy and relationships are all on the agenda at Lincoln Theatre Wednesday night as 19 presenters and 600 attendees take part in Ignite Raleigh 2, sponsored by Phonebooth.com. This free event is part of Global Ignite Week,...

Here is a list of all 19 speakers who will be presenting at IgniteRaleigh 2. It is listed alphabetically since we know you want to be surprised at who is speaking next. This list includes their Twitter name for easy reference and the title of their Ignite Talk. If you would like to follow all the speakers easily, use this list from Ignite Raleigh. If you are tweeting from IgniteRaleigh 2, please use the hastags...

Ignite Raleigh 2 is free for attendees thanks to our sponsors, however, as one of the initiatives of Global Ignite Week, we encourage you to make a donation to a local education project using Donors Choose. DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Here’s how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests...

New site showcases hundreds of 5-minute videos from Ignite events worldwide O’Reilly has officially announced the launch of igniteshow.com! Sebastopol, CA—Humans really like to congregate. Even as we increasingly live—and share—our lives online, we seek out opportunities to meet, talk, and get recharged by the energy of a crowd. From March 1-5, 2010, roughly 10,000 people will congregate at more...

We’re pleased to announced that Phonebooth.com will be the presenting sponsor of Ignite Raleigh 2. Phonebooth OnDemand is a web-based, business phone system that gives you the features, reliability and voice quality you want – without the management headache of traditional phone systems. If you have seen the big red phonebooth at previous events in the Triangle then get ready because he’s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Photo credit: Jeff Cohen Are you ready for Ignite Raleigh 2? Ignite Raleigh 2 will be held on Wednesday, March 3, Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC 7-9pm. Last year over 500 attendees joined the Triangle community as the first Ignite event was held in North Carolina. This year we’re a part of Global Ignite Week as we join 60+ cities around the world hosting Ignite events. More on Global Ignite Week can be found...

Thanks again to all the presenters at Ignite Raleigh for subjecting themselves to the harsh conditions of the Ignite requirements. 5 minutes. 20 slides. And autoadvancing slides every 15 seconds. And if you go over time in Raleigh, you get RickRolled. We only had one presenter get RickRolled, but there were rumors that it was intentional, since no one went over all night and Zach wanted to dance. There were...

Ignite Raleigh would not exist without our sponsors, so we want to thank them, and would like for you to do the same. If you or your business need the services our sponsors offer, please consider contacting them for more information. The Carolina Rollergirls‘ derby is NOT a wrasslin’ style circus act. Staged fighting has been replaced with walloping take-outs. The fast-dodging jammers are too hungry...

Ignite Raleigh would not exist without our sponsors, so we want to thank them, and would like for you to do the same. If you or your business need the services our sponsors offer, please consider contacting them for more information. At Internet Summit 09 join hundreds of executives, business strategists, entrepreneurs, investors and marketers for expert content on internet trends and opportunities created...

Ignite Raleigh would not exist without our sponsors, so we want to thank them, and would like for you to do the same. If you or your business need the services our sponsors offer, please consider contacting them for more information. This is Beautiful is a team of artists, designers, developers and thinkers who build great brands. They create unique and tailored experiences through identity, environmental,...

Tomorrow is Ignite Raleigh and we just wanted to run down some details about the event to make sure everything runs smoothly and people know what to expect from this event. We are holding this event at the Lincoln Theatre, a large rock club that holds hundreds of people. This will create a very different vibe for Ignite Raleigh than the usual conference. You can think of the 15 presenters as rock stars who will...

For those of you reside outside of NC we call the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and surrounding areas the Triangle and this week we having Triangle Tech week. Every day starting Monday August 3 thru August 8 there will be a different Technology/ social media/ geek event to attend. Also we’re going to have a few special prizes for some of the attendees who make it all six events such as an iTunes gift...

Ignite Raleigh would not exist without our sponsors, so we want to thank them, and would like for you to do the same. If you or business need the services our sponsors offer, please consider contacting them for more information. Thirdparty Labs specializes in building advanced, standards-based, usable, content-managed web sites. They solve clients’ toughest technical problems with their approach. Thirdparty...

We are excited to announce our house DJ for Ignite Raleigh tonight. DJ Rousseau is a renown local Electronica Disk Jockey who has deejayed at several prominent triangle clubs over the past ten years. You have heard his turntables at NV in Chapel Hill, Cafe Cyclo in Raleigh and the FAME parties at Ringside in Durham. DJ Rousseau was co-founder of the Resonance Project and resident DJ at Kulture in Raleigh....

Ignite Raleigh to be held at Lincoln Theatre August 5, 2009 For Immediate Release (Raleigh, NC: July 9, 2009) The air in Downtown Raleigh will be filled with fast-paced, high-minded ideas as Ignite Raleigh comes to the Lincoln Theatre on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 7pm. This free event, organized by Triangle startup company, OurHashtag, LLC, will bring together hundreds of members of the Raleigh community...

Photo credit: Anita Hart Do you have what it takes to stand in-front of 400 people and share your ideas with the community? Starting today, you can submit your presentation ideas for Ignite Raleigh. As the ideas are submitted, you can vote up to 10 times on other Ignite Talks that you would like to see. We’re planning to have 14 presentations. The top 10 presentation ideas selected by the community...

If you had five minutes to talk to Raleigh what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? Talk about recent learnings, successes, failures? We are looking for talks that will inspire and teach, not recruiting or product pitches. With our first incarnation of Ignite Raleigh to be held in August, one issue surrounded in a bit...