Russell Davies

Goals

"She speaks briskly, avoids jargon, and runs ahead of schedule."

(New Yorker) (findings)

Long, hard work

‘Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point’
– Frederick Maitland

I can't remember where I found this. 

(findings)

Interesting publicity

Interesting isn't far off now. It's on May 15th.

I've got a bunch of fantastic speakers lined-up and we've sold enough tickets that costs are covered, speakers can be paid, etc.

But we should sell some more because the more, the merrier, the busier, the better.

In the early years I could sell quite a few tickets via blogposts. Then, it was twitter. That worked well. Now, I'm really not sure where to turn. Should I be doing 'paid social'? (I'm not going to do paid social.)

I'm going to try the various new social platforms. I'll stick something on instagram. I'll pop something in the newsletter. But if you, the RSS massive, would be kind enough to encourage people to get tickets, I'd be very grateful.

 

 

 

Bankside

There's new activity over at eggbaconchipsandbeans and ebcbrevisited.

Any questions

Getting people to ask questions / say something at the end of a presentation / talk / lecture is difficult.

These thoughts might help:

Don't ask for feedback, ask for advice

Cheap tricks for starting discussions in lectures