Press Release: O’Reilly Media Launches Video Portal igniteshow.com in Conjunction with Global Ignite Week

Posted by Ryan Boyles in Ignite Raleigh 2, News

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 than 60 Ignites on six continents, as the first Global Ignite Week rolls across the planet. They’ll gather in local venues, grab a cold beverage, and watch a series of 5-minute talks from geeks, entrepreneurs, creative professionals, farmers, educators—people in their community who rise to the challenge of the Ignite motto: “Enlighten us, but make it quick.”
And now those Ignite events will be able to showcase their local Igniter’s talks online. O’Reilly Media has launched igniteshow.com, a new video portal that brings hundreds of 5-minute Ignite videos together in one site.

Read the entire Press Release on O’Reilly.com.

The sponsors of Global Ignite Week include Bing, Facebook, DonorsChoose, Eventbrite, Foursquare, Lullabot, Mashable and StickerGiant. Be sure to also read Mashable’s 10 reasons to watch or attend an Ignite event.

Be sure to check out the Raleigh city event page on IgniteShow.com or poke around and see if there is an Ignite night in your hometown. Videos will be continuously added to this central website as Global Ignite Week goes on during the first week of March 2010.

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Announcing @Phonebooth, presenting sponsor of Ignite Raleigh 2

Posted by Wayne Sutton in Featured Articles, Ignite Raleigh 2, News

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 going to make a splash at Ignite Raleigh 2. We would like to thank Bandwidth and the Phonebooth.com team for the support.

See you on March 3 for Ignite Raleigh 2!

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Announcing Miss NC USA 2010 Nadia S. Moffett speaking at Ignite Raleigh 2

Posted by Wayne Sutton in Ignite Raleigh 2, News

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

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We’re glad Nadia can join us for Ignite Raleigh 2 and we look forward to seeing her Ignite talk.

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Speaker Instructions

Posted by Jeff Cohen in Ignite Raleigh 2, News

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.

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Announcing 15 Selected Speakers for Ignite Raleigh 2

Posted by Ryan Boyles in Featured Articles, Ignite Raleigh 2, News

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!

1. Charlotte Moore, NerdGirls Unite! Fact: Women Don’t Have to Be Lame
2. Natasha Crawford, Using the Principles of Career Advancement to Enhance Your Intimate Relationship
3. Lisa Creech Bledsoe, 13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing
4. Janet Kennedy, 5 Bucks is Change
5. Chris Moody, Everyone Needs A Dumb Guy
6. George Smart, Mayberry Modernism – Why the Triangle is America’s Hotspot for Way Cool Houses
7. Evan Carroll, What happens to your digital identity after you die?
8. David Millsaps, All media is social. You are no expert. Go read McLuhan.
9. Jay Dolan, Anti-Social Media: Breaking Connections for Fun and Profit
10. Jess Commins, How to save $100+ with a DIY energy audit
11. Ryan Boyles, Ignite of The Living Dead!
12. Bethany Smith, Presentation Zen, or How to not to be boring while presenting at Ignite
13. Jay Cuthrell, The Redneck Guide to Silicon Valley
14. Charlotte Goodman-Smith & Christine Fawley, 20 Little-Known Facts about Sex & Pleasure
15. 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!

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Announcing Ignite Raleigh 2 featured speakers and voting ends tomorrow

Posted by Wayne Sutton in Featured Articles, Ignite Raleigh 2, News

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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