Mark your calendar: Our ongoing series resumes October 15th. And this time, you can participate. Here is the announcement:
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What is 21 Slides?
90 minutes. 8 social media presenters. Five minutes each. No more than 21 slides. Add beer.
ZAAZ is inviting local social media digerati, strategists, and media dabblers of all backgrounds to submit presentation ideas to compete for the eight available 5-minute presentations slots. The submissions are reviewed by the event directors to assess quality and social media relevance (no vacation slide shows, please) – then the approved submissions are posted with a brief description on this Facebook event site and presented to the community at large for a vote. The 8 most popular topics as voted by the community will be chosen to present at 21 Slides – with a clear winner being adorned with a social media tiara and sash.
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258514510526&ref=mf
Participants in the presentations are encouraged to take creative risks, in terms of content and presentation, and to not just show-off their social media project portfolios. That would be lame.
We’re looking for submissions that present an engaging narrative that tells a powerful story (whether through humor, empathy, concern, enlightenment) about the role or influence that social media can have in our lives today.
Anyone and everyone is encouraged to submit a topic, subject to a few rules of course:
1. All presentations are 5 minutes max (and we do mean five minutes)
2. Social Media reference must be in the title of the presentation (and the primary focus)
3. No one may have more than 21 slides (get it?)
4. Commercials suck (don’t sell anything)
5. Event directors reserve the right to reject submissions based on content appropriateness.
Some possible presentations you might see at our 21 Slides event:
• An interactive PowerPoint that shows how you saved the breakfast sandwich purely on retweets.
• An uncensored look at some of the most powerful video imagery coming out of Iran on YouTube.com
• How to track Hurricane Bill using only your IPhone
• Junk you can do on Twitter besides lame ass status updates
• 10 ways to spice up your love life digitally
SUBMISSION TIMELINE:
September 10 – 22 :: Submissions accepted (PLEASE SEE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES BELOW)
September 22 :: Submission period closed and top concepts are reviewed for relevancy
September 24 – 31 :: Voting opens for top submissions
October 1 :: Final presentations announced
October 5 :: Presentations due from winning presenters (this means your full five minute presentation)
October 15 :: Happy Hour starts @ 6:00 PM, lights dim at 7PM and the show begins.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Send an email to 21slides@zaaz.com by September 22 with the following information included in the body of your email. You will receive email confirmation that your submission was received.
• Your full name
• Your email address
• Title of you presentation
• Describe presentation with as much detail as possible so we get the gist
• Twitter name
• What do you want the audience to walk away with from your presentation?
• How will you deliver your presentation? (PPT, slideware, tweets, interactive, etc.)
• What element of social media will you speak to?
• How do you plan to spice up your presentation? (lighting yourself on fire is grounds for immediate rejection – and so last century)
At the 21 Slides event, the presentations are preceded by a Z-bar sponsored happy hour after which the lights are dimmed, the crowd is hushed, and the social media enlightenment begins. In the spirit of community participation, we will have a split screen showing a live feed of twitter comments on the presentations as they unfold on stage.
See you there!
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