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Public Speaking BadAss, Part 1 A Practical Guide to Inspiring Audiences

Dave Speaks! photo by Kris Krug Note: Draft Ever since performing alongside my Mom in old folks’ homes as a little leprechaun, I’ve always seemed close to a stage, a lectern or front of a classroom —...

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Disruption, a note…

Radio killed the Telegraph star. Emerge by disruption > Fade by disruption. Consider Perusing: Onward, upward (poem from Deb.) “ATG purchased” in The Olympian with comments by Dave Olson Music,...

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The Internet is personal

The Internet is personal, not professional, not corporate, not to be controlled by self-professed “gurus”. Fck stats, make art. Consider Perusing: F@ck Stats, Make Art spiel at SXSWi 2009 – Round-up...

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Social Marketing Kung fu: Choose a topic card, a story or spiel may follow

These note cards are residual evidence of a “lunch ‘n learn” and/or other spiel presented in some context or another. As it goes, i can’t cover all of my Social Marketing Kung Fu(n) topics o’ wisdom in...

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Riff: Fuzzy difference between craft and art

Can often be a fuzzy difference between craft and art / technique vs idea – I feel that art requires intent, honesty, integrity and emotion, plus the element of considered craft to execute vision. Sure...

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Note: Social Media “Revolution” (On many fronts, the revolution has waned…)

A note to someone re: social media’s “potential” and loss (or dilution thereof): On many fronts, the revolution has waned, lost under a fog of sugar high likes and viral broken dreams, but you and your...

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Riff: community building, fundraising & cross-cultural communication

Regarding “community building”: Harnessing the passion and enthusiasm for business or artistic pursuits requires most importantly, giving respect to the community itself. It’s a common mistake of...

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Riff: Event Wrangling & Community Magic

A riff in reply to a conversation with Isabella Mori and others (FB iirc) about the notable conference/event/happening called Northern Voice and the reasons it sparked such goodness. My thoughts about...

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Riff: Art vs Stats / Personal expression is the pinnacle…

From a response to a discussion somewhere at some time… “Like the venerable Mr. Christopher Trottier (@atomicpoet) pointed out,… the crazy thing is, if you make awesome art, the stats (i.e. likes,...

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“The Internet Age Began on August 9, 1995” / via Litkicks (with comment)

The Internet Age Began on August 9, 1995 by Levi Asher • August 7th, 2015 {excerpts – go read the whole article, its great} Two separate things happened on August 9, 1995, both by chance emerging from...

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Memo: Regarding Personal Archeology (for starters)

Sent to a friend who was feeling confused about how to get started archiving and documenting one’s own creative life ~ shared here for edification – sorta for business-y types i suppose In brief: Gotta...

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Memo: “document in the way which feels natural to you”

Re: Personal Archeology Document in the way which feels natural to you. Doesn’t have to be a “blog”, can be a notebook with coloured pencils, or buy yourself a fountain pen, or an audio recorder....

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Memo: Personal Archeology > for years and decades

Think of *every* surface as your own personal notebook and remind often you’re doing *this for yourself* and for the future and everyone else is just kind of “bonus” looking over your shoulder. In...

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Marketing Master Class (on notes)

Everything about building a brand, community and marketing is on these cards. This is not a thread or enticement to join a mailing list, membership or chat server. Just gateways to a bigger world....

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Riff: blueprint for a creative process / Vancouver Stories (prezo plan)

Projects of all kinds, a talk/presentation in this case, usually start with some kind of plan… (seems obvious so i’ll explain further). In this instance, this is the *origin document* of what turned...

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Riff: Organizing Fence Painters (for an institute)

Written as a bit of advice to someone organizing a nonprofit group, focussed on curating, archiving, compiling, organizing, amplifying on-going historical / literary records. Shared here as I find so...

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