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I just wrapped up my presentation at the CCI2008. Here's the slideshare for it:

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A much longer post is up at Raincity Studios.

See you all on the other side of the weekend, I'm going completely offline...

Whew! What an intense couple of days. Today was my speaking day for Web Directions North. I was very pleased to be selected as a speaker by Dave Shea and the rest of the WDN08 team, and I was a bit nervous up until the last minute. At the same time, I was really glad that I had the first day to attend and absorb and talk to other participants and tailor my presentation to what I was hearing.

I originally started with a "traditional" presentation. It ended up morphing into a pseudo Dick Hardt / Lessig style, with lots of slides with just a few words on each one. It may not make much sense without the audio, but Phil Djwa and the Agentic team recorded the audio for everything, so I'm hoping to combine the two.

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I wish I had had a little more time to practice the timing a little more, and I definitely need to invest in a non line of sight presentation clicker: right when I was on a roll I would have to more carefully aim the remote control at my machine.

It's late notice, but myself and Andre Charland will be presenting on Using the Tools of Web 2.0 at the BCTIA Go 2 Market Roundtable tomorrow morning (Sept. 28th). It's taking place at the BC TIA Boardroom.

What are the tools of web 2.0? Well, the audience will mainly be marketing focused, so we'll cover some interesting marketing ideas and basic concepts around blogs, wikis, and customer interaction. That's code for "I need to work on some more slides tonight". I'll definitely cover how for small businesses, blog == Better Listings On Google.