After work yesterday, Justin and I went to go see Rob present at a Pecha Kucha event. Entitled Humanity and the Environment, this was a one-off event that took place at a new venue, and was held at the School of the Art Institute. Walking in, we found Gretchen in the audience and camped out…
A few months ago, I came across a survey by Scott Berkun on short format speaking. I forget how it made its way to my screen, but it was intriguing to me. Note: my experience has only been with Pecha Kucha, but the bulk of Berkun’s survey is based on input from Ignite speakers. Yesterday,…
I recently got an email from local Pecha Kucha Chicago organizer Thorsten Bösch, along with a freshly made video of my Pecha Kucha presentation. I’ve posted up the video, but fair warning: it’s a bit of a monster at 119MB. It was enjoyable to look over this event again, and to remember the process leading…
Several weeks back, I learned about a new addition to the Pecha Kucha site, where they started to post up full presentations from around the world – including both slides and audio. Peter Exeley, one of the Chicago PK organizers, contacted me about submitting my slides and audio to the site. So I’m pretty stoked…