Today I gave a five minute lightning talk at the PSU web developer's lunch. The topic? blogging for productivity and work communication. Slightly different angle than my usual edu-bent pony show. I was one of around ten people who gave lightning talks at the lunch. Christian manned the cowbell. Topics included trac, collaborative editing (I learned of adobe buzzword), twitter, svn, delicious, diigo, irc.
You can find my slides below, 22 slides that I put together in almost no time using keynote, then exported to ppt, then uploaded to google docs to place in the presentation along side the other lightning talkers' slides. I am so in love with keynote right now. Using it is like breathing slides.
These slides don't really say much on their own. Or maybe they do. I don't know. It is nothing but a bunch of screen shots. If you are bored you can try to make up the story that goes along with this series of images. Here is the story I tried to tell with the images: blogs are a simple web publishing tool whose ease of use has turned web pages into pieces of a conversation. Blogs are personal content repositories, but also a piece of a social network and communities of practice. Blogs can cut down on the amount of info that must be broadcast via email. RSS allows you repurpose content in a ton of ways. Look at these examples.
Five minutes goes a lot quicker than you'd think when you are standing at the front.
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