Scott Berkun

Speaking at The Economist Innovation event

I’ll be speaking at this new event, first in a series run by The Economist magazine.

The ideas economy: Innovation
Berkeley, California, March 23-24

The roster includes Jared Diamond, Ray Kurzweil, Paul Saffo, Clayton Christensen, Dan Esty, Ed Catmull, John Perry Barlow, Arriana Huffington and more.

It’s 200 people only – registration info here ($1500 a ticket).

I hope to liveblog the event if I can.

Melbourne meetup – Sunday!

Sorry for the short notice, but I arrive in Melbourne for a few days this coming Saturday. I’m speaking at the PMI Asia Congress on Monday.

If anyone is up for it, I’d love to meet some locals, and share some beers or some food. Recommendations welcome for where. Saturday or Sunday are open.

I’ll be jet lagged out of my mind, but this often makes me 30% more entertaining.

Leave a comment if you’re interested, and I’ll email everyone when I arrive to follow up.

My talk at Google HQ, on Confessions

I wrote a few weeks ago about how my talk at Google about Confessions was the toughest room I’d had all year (with photos, and countermoves). The room was adjacent to a noisy cafeteria,at lunchtime, and an exposed busy hallway of folks on their way to and from the cafeteria: bad news all around.

The funny thing is, video is flat. It evens out the highs and lows, and the audio track isn’t mixed: there’s only what you hear through my mike. If I didn’t tell you, you’d never know how tough that room was, and how much of an impact the background noise had on me, and the vibe in the crowd.

Below is a picture I took of the reverse view, where you can see the cafe behind, and the hallway on the left, 10 minutes before the talk began.

Well enough whining. I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t show videos of talks I didn’t enjoy. So for your curiosity, here’s the video of the talk. The Q&A, which is better, starts at 34:00.

Live, Free webcast TODAY on speaking

(Updated: this is today. it’s free. If you’re in Seattle you can come down to creativetech and watch live. )

This should be fun – the folks at creativetechs have a fantastic tech setup for webcasts which promises to be higher quality than most. If you saw the last webcast and enjoyed it, please help spread the word.

You can tune in from anywhere in the world, or if you’re in Seattle come on down and watch live.

Learn inside tricks and hear entertaining stories that will make you more persuasive and less nervous when you speak.

If you’ve got something to say—and want people to listen—this is for you. Best-selling author and kick-ass speaker Scott Berkun shares the secrets of effective speaking in this interactive class. Learn the six reasons for suckage (chances are, you’re committing one), how to avoid them, and what to do when caught off-guard. Drill Scott with questions, learn from his mistakes, get tools to improve your delivery

The people who have to listen to you are begging you to attend, and to read the book, which is getting amazing reviews in the Wall Street Journal, NY Post, Slashdot and Lifehacker.

Click here to Sign-up for webcast, or in-person in Seattle

If you live in Seattle there are a limited number of live, in-person seats (I’ll sign books if you have ‘em).  Otherwise up to 1000 people can watch, and chat, for free online.

Event Date: Tuesday, January 19
Time: 6:30pm Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE event is FREE to attend!

If you want a preview, two free chapters of the book are available here.