Mark is a natural speaker that lights up the room when he speaks. His presentation had the right combination of knowledge, imagination and entertainment.
– A. Vargas, Ipsos Reid
A truly eye opening speech; thought provoking. I will definitely look at marketing in a new light.
– D. Picard, City of Ottawa
I have been both a speaker and panelist on a variety of topics. Presentations I’ve delivered include:
- Onramps to Digital Engagement – An exploration of digital communications and how content in a variety of forms (text, audio and video) can be used as onramps to engagement and relationship building.
- Multidimensional Media – New and creative ways to engage your audience using text, audio and video. This session highlights how media can be used to tell several stories in one experience.
- Content Paleontology: One approach to media production workflow and creative process – An exploration of audio and video production that allows stories to reveal themselves instead of depending on a writing and production team to decide how stories should be written and presented.
- Extreme Innovation: How a democratic environment can drive innovation and success – Learn from a first hand account of how a lack of specific hierarchy, a common goal and a fair stake in the outcome can lead to creativity, collaboration, communication and tangible results in record time.
- Return on Influence: Exploiting Social Media for Business – Traditional business models are revenue focussed. Social media and open source movements have forced us to think more about the trust economy.
- Community Building as a Business Strategy – The information age has resulted in a marketplace that has no sense of time and space. This session explores turning “connectivity” into “being connected”.
- What is the sound of your brand? - In this session, I challenge the audience to think creatively and critically about using audio as part of their personal, professional or corporate brand, and how to use the podcast channel to bring that sound to life on the Internet.
- Editing Techniques and Decisions – Practical examples and live demonstrations of five audio editing techniques and discussions on how to apply them.
Upcoming public presentations include:
- Transmission and Integrating New Power into the Grid Conference
Previous speaking engagements include:
- Association for Bright Children (ABC) Ottawa Chapter
- Association of Jewish Libraries 2009 Annual Convention
- Bayer AG, Germany and Canada
- BookCamp TO
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Corporate Podcasting Summit USA
- CPRS Ottawa Take the Leap… from Good to Great
- International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Ottawa
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- 14th Intranets for Corporate Communications Conference
- Kidlit Conference
- Legal Aid Alberta
- Microsoft’s Ignite Your Career Webcast
- National Campus-Community Radio Conference
- Niagara-on-the-Lake Social Media Conference
- PodCamp Boston
- PodCamp Montreal
- PodCamp Ottawa
- PodCamp Philly
- PodCamp Toronto
- Podcasters Across Borders
- 7th Public Affairs Summit
- Radio Without Boundaries
- Social Media in Government Conference
- TEDxOttawa (an Independent TED event)
