Speaker Submissions For Ignite Wilmington #5
If you had to listen to something for five minutes, what would you want to hear? If you had five minutes to talk, what would you say?
Here’s your chance to cast your votes for the talks you want to hear at Ignite Wilmington #5 on April 7th. Also, here’s your opportunity to propose your Ignite talk as well. Don’t be shy!
You’ll have ten votes to cast, so choose wisely. Potential speakers will continue to propose new talks over the coming weeks, so save some votes and check back often. Choose talks that sound interesting, educational, thought-provoking, and engaging.
The Ignite Wilmington Team will be selecting the speakers using a combination of votes and committee to create an interesting, educational, thought-provoking, engaging and balanced event. We’ll be selecting the talks based on a number of factors, including diversity of topics and speakers.
Submissions will close on Sunday, March 6th at 6PM. Voting will end on Thursday, March 11th at 12PM.
If you want to submit your own Ignite talk, FIRST PLEASE *SIGN UP* FOR A USERVOICE ACCOUNT using the “SIGN UP” link above and to the right SO WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Thanks!
Last note to potential speakers: Please, no recruiting or product pitches. Be sure to include a great title and a detailed description. The more details, the better.
Good luck!
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Deploying Employee Satisfaction as a Strategic Weapon
I've worked for Prestwick House for 13 years. In that time we've developed "Employee Satisfaction" as a core competency to compete with the big guys and grow the company from a start up to a leader in Educational Publishing. As a result of a tight strategic emphasis on employee satisfaction, Prestwick House has been recognized as one of the ten best Publishing Companies to Work for in three out of the past four years. People spend most of their lives at work, so making a workplace great produces social as well as economic benefits.
51 votes -
What is "The Cloud" Anyway and Why Should I Care?
Cloud this, cloud that - it seems everything it moving to "the cloud" these days. But just what the heck IS the cloud anyway and why should I care? More importantly, how can you leverage "the cloud" to improve your business, your social life, your finances or just about any other aspect of your life. William Swezey II, President and C.E.O. of Data Management Internationale', a local provider of cloud based document management systems will explain what the cloud is, what it's benefits are, when you should use it and more importantly when you shouldn't.
34 votes -
The Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy in Delaware
According to Delmarva Power, shifting from coal to renewable energy will save Delawareans $1.8 billion to $4.3 billion in health and environmental costs. The savings won’t appear on your power bill, but your medical bills. Environmental advocate and finance geek Tom Noyes runs the numbers for you.
32 votes -
Top 5 Free Tools for SEO / Google Ranking
Unless you are selling buggy whips or run a messenger boy service, you better get your business on board with Search Engine Optimization and Google. But doing so doesn't have to be expensive or daunting. In fact there are some great FREE tools available to anyone to help! William Swezey II, President and C.E.O. of Data Management Internationale', a local provider of cloud based document management systems will list his Top 5 FREE tools for getting your website noticed, including what they do, where to get them and how to use them.
27 votes -
5 Simple Ways to Improve Any Relationship
Relationships are one of the biggest joys in our lives and one of the biggest stressors. Since most of us didn't learn healthy relationship tools in school and often learned the opposite of healthy relationships from our parents, sharing tools for healthy relationships has become one of my passions. So I would love to share with the group 5 simple ways to improve any relationship. If they help bring one person a little peace, then I have done my job.
4 votes -
Tag Clouds A Cure For Information Overload
Looking for ways to help me quickly process a large amount of information (e.g. #netDE Twitter tweets), I created a "tag cloud" (http://lozes.mobi/ttc). My talk would probably go over definition of "tag clouds", uses, examples and the process that I used to create one.
2 votes -
Heros Never Die!
My speech will motivate inspire educate and move one to take action! You will Laugh, Cry and feel empowered to Love!
1 vote