Return on Intention

I was fortunate enough to participate in the first Ignite NM held in Albuquerque on July 15th, 2009. Ignite NM is a short form presentation format that works by allowing each each speaker only 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. Sound hard? It is, but man was it fun.

At this event, which was organized by Mick Thompson and sponsored by Northern New Mexico Connect, there was 13 presenters. I was the 5th and did an abridged version of my Better Online Sales presentation. This was truly a unique experience, mainly because this format was hard for me, but also because there really wasn’t a bad presenter in the line up. It was great. You can check out more of the videos on the Ignite NM website.

Ignite NM – Reid Givens: Better online sales, tips and tricks to improve sales from David Thompson on Vimeo.

Yesterday (Wednesday January 21st) I attended the first official meeting of Webuquerque, the web focused section of the New Mexico Adobe Users Group. I have been scheduled to speak to this group in November on Marketing, but this time around there was no presentation, just a chance to get together, see the group and meet the other presenters. It was a great night for several reasons:

1. I won a door prize (a book on Adobe Air for Javascript Developers)
2. I got to see some people haven’t seen in a while and meet a few news ones
3. I had some really good conversations with other web folks about web stuff

I usually attend other get togethers, like the Albuquerque Web Geeks Meet-ups, but often people go there to get away from their work, not talk more about it. There seemed to be many people at the Webuquerque group that we’re waiting for a group that not only accepted, but encouraged shop-talk. I am one of them, and I think this group will work out very nicely. 

If you are interested and around town when the events occur (every 1st Wednesday) stop by and say hi. I promise I will get more sleep before the next meeting.