Speaking

I am currently available to speak at conferences or provide custom online community or social media training for your organization. You can contact me via email (dawn@fastwonder.com) for more information.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

• MeeGo Developer Day

A sample of some of my presentations, many are on on SlideShare:

• Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.
• Demystifying Social Media Tools and Techniques
• Online Communities: short and basic introduction to online communities
• Online Communities and Marketing: comprehensive 40+ slides on how people in marketing can engage with online communities.
• Open Source Communities: overview of how open source communities function
• What Would Dr. Seuss Say about Online Communities: fun with online communities presented in Ignite style (slides with audio included in this link).
• Online Community Manager: Yes, it’s really a job: careers in community management.
• Social Media Training: presentation from a short training session about social media
• Online Community Training: presentation from a training session for people getting ready to build online communities.
  

Past speaking engagements have included:

• SXSW 2007, 2009
• Web 2.0 Expo
• Innotech 2008, 2009
• WebVisions
• OSCON 2006, 2007, 2008
• LinuxCon
• Community 2.0 2008, 2009
  
• Defrag
• Love@First Website
• BlogHer
• Ignite Portland
• Foo 2006
• Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
• Women in Technology International (WITI)
• Various BarCamps, unconferences, smaller speaking engagements and more