Allison is president of a residential building company in Portland, Oregon, and more famously, a mountain climber and the first American woman to climb Everest, as well as peaks in Pakistan and Russia. MORE
I'll be presenting at Ignite Nishinomiya (Japan) on July 2 and I hope to attend the Portland Ignite (as an audience member) on July 16 in the USA, though I'll be flying into Portland from Japan on that afternoon. MORE
Audio Body Language Press Room Barack Obama kex 1190 portland mike bako State of the Union MORE
And the XPLANE head quarters is located in one of America's most creative, most livable cities: Portland, Oregon. Do you know XPLANE? If you don't, you should. MORE
23 – The Oregonian (Portland) 268,512 325,816. I found this post from Brian Solis very interesting – a list of the top media outlets, by circulation, as well as the 25 most popular blogs in America, as compiled by BurrellesLuce. . Marshall McLuhan is famous for stating “the medium is the message&# and with the introduction of a newer medium (online, web) there is constant debate as to its effect on older mediums (print, broadcast). MORE
The horror of two murders on the MAX train in Portland, Oregon might be the result of craziness. Or just being naïve about what "freedom" legally means in America. According to the media , the suspect in the murders said: "This is free America, I can do whatever I want." MORE
Hello readers! I'm back from vacation and ready to rumble. MORE
She came to Portland as the last stop in a tour that was unusual for her: no band. MORE
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' MORE
The chef in that cozy inn in Portland, Maine invites tourists to help decide on just-the-right spices. "The Pine Tree State kicked off a review of its tourism PR account on Oct. 2, putting the mid-six figure account in play for the second time in two years." MORE
This time the speaker happened to be Bob Moore , the founder of Bob’s Red Mill in Portland. MORE
A Portland State University archivist has uncovered a box of reel-to-reel recordings of campus speeches by figures such as LSD advocate Timothy Leary, Robert F. MORE
Here are the results of our October Joke Contest. The theme is City Slogans , inspired by the Las Vegas slogan: What happens in Vegas…stays in Vegas. New Joke Contests are announced on the first of the month (alternating months). New Cartoon Caption Contests are announced on the first of the month (alternating months). The next caption contest is November 1, 2011. ** FIRST PLACE **. MORE
In Sidney’s career he played with the Portland Trail Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and spent most of his career with the Boston Celtics. Danny Cox , CPAE is a giant in the professional speaking world. Author of Leadership When the Heat’s On and known as the Sonic Boom Salesman. MORE
But last summer I received a note from the DIrector of Marketing at InFocus asking if I would come in to see their technology and meet their staff in Portland, Oregon. With some of the InFocus team at their head offices in Portland, Oregon. "Do you need an in-focus for your meeting?" MORE
Based in Portland, Oregon, he happily accepts interesting assignments anywhere in the world. Photos ( Zenfolio | Flickr ) Archives About Contact Dear Speakers By James Duncan Davidson on March 8, 2009 12:22 AM | 71 Comments Tagged: advice, speaking Last week, while shooting eComm 2009 in Burlingame, I started posting a set of thoughts on Twitter, all starting out Dear Speaker. Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do. MORE
I'm leaving tomorrow for ten days - half in Portland, OR, and half in the Sacramento area. Visiting friends and family for a much anticipated break! Blog posts will be intermittent while I'm gone, because I have not stored up enough advance posts to keep it up for ten days! See you" when I get back! MORE
Furries, that is human beings dressed up in animal attire, have been banned in a public library in Portland, Connecticut. Let's cut to the chase: The library fears that a Disney-like creature could lure a child away and that will be that. MORE
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. Unless, of course, you actually do know Dick!). Dick Hardt. The presentation below (which, as you’ll see, was the inspiration for the title of this post) is an old one. MORE
Two of my more amusing experiences: Day One of an ultrasound in medical education conference in Portland Oregon. (Editor''s note: Talk About the Talk is our new series in which I ask speakers I''ve worked with to share their perspective on giving big or important talks. MORE
Paul Hawken is an environmental activist and author who gave the commencement address at the University of Portland. Commencement season has largely come and gone at universities and colleges around the nation. MORE
Lead : A man taking photographs of Portland’s skyline about 2:15 a.m. Excerpt from Fundamentals of Writing: How to Write Articles, Media Releases, Case Studies, Blog Posts and Social Media Content . In a previous post , we looked at the W5 lead. There are times journalists find multiple W5 elements, or need more than the basic W5 points, before they can write stories. There are times when they do not use all the W5 points they find. Either way, W5 is the place to start. MORE
Michelle Lawson February 24, 2009 Just back from Recent Changes Camp and Social Media Club in Portland, I’m inclined to see the use of the backchannel as more evidence of the trend toward collaboration and co-creation of content…a time-limited, living wiki, if you will. MORE
Following my post yesterday on the Portland State University lost speech tapes, I found an article about the Blank on Blank project that curates lost tapes […]. MORE
public radio's business show, Marketplace Money, gave the speech in 2013 at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. We've featured famous speeches by women who were fired, and some who've made amazing career changes. MORE
Well, the new camera phone is no substitute for a digital camera (which we keep forgetting to pull out of the car), but here are a couple of pretty things from the rose garden in Portland. MORE
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ahem … I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. MORE
One of them is Portland, Oregon. Today, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL runs an article about "youth magnet" cities that have few [good] jobs. But is this news? What might have been news is a story about a "youth magnet" city which had tons of [good] jobs. I was among the youth who found Ann Arbor, Michigan in the exciting end of the '60s. A liberal college town, it was a magnet for educated young people. MORE
Other participating cities include Portland , Paris and Washington, DC.) Can you tell a great personal story? It's one of the most effective ways to get--and hold--your audience's attention. MORE
The PORTLAND TRIBUNE, a piece of the mainstream media, didn't dig into the allegations about sexual misconduct by Al Gore. And now, reports Keach Hagey in POLITICO.COM, it appears it indeed might have committed a sin of omission, just like the Portland, Oregon police. All this is making it clear that there are few institutions in America we can trust. The mainstream media and the police frequently cave to the powers-that-be. MORE
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Here are the results of our October Joke Contest. The theme is City Slogans , inspired by the Las Vegas slogan: What happens in Vegas…stays in Vegas. New Joke Contests are announced on the first of the month (alternating months). New Cartoon Caption Contests are announced on the first of the month (alternating months). The next caption contest is November 1, 2011. ** FIRST PLACE **.
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