We are part of Global Ignite week.  There are over 70 Ignites happening the same week all around the world.  Make sure your at Ignite NM to be a part of the worldwide movement that Ignite has become.

Note: Do you have video from Ignite NM 4?  Please share it with us.  Due to some technical difficulties we are missing some footage.  contact mick@davidmichaelthompson.com

Thanks to those that Created the Originals! Here are the links:

http://www.slideshare.net/phploveme/1st-ignite-seoul-9

http://www.slideshare.net/slars0n/reverse-engineering-the-brain-online

We’ll be starting to get the next event together for this spring, and when we have more info we’ll let you know.  But if you are interested in speaking start thinking about your topic so you’ll be ready to submit for Ignite NM 5.

Thanks Everybody!

We have a great lineup of speakers for Ignite NM 4.

• 30 days on JetBlue - Mick Thompson
• Social Media: Made for business - Terri Jenkins
• 1 thousand is the new 1 million - Jonny Flash
• No Only SQL: The New Databases - Jack Moffitt
• Brewdog! - The Art & Craft of Brewing Beer - Peter Brown
• Power Networking In New Mexico: Where to go and who to meet to maximize your business contacts. - Stacy Sacco
• What Net Neutrality Is (and why you should care) - Ben Byrne
• Banner Advertising: "No More 'Punch the Monkey'" - Kristelle Siarza
• The future of IT is cloudy - Klaus Mueller
• Starting the Fire at CNM - Miranda Evjen and Alexis Kerschner
• Easy Women: (not like that!) Success Techniques for Women in Leadership - Katie Snapp
• Bombs Or Tupperware? - Chris Kenworthy

Ignite is December 2nd 2009, 6pm at CNM’s Smith Brasher Hall, Room 100

Dont for get to RSVP!!!

How does it work?

First off people who would like to speak at Ignite submit a topic(a title and a brief description) The community votes on the topics, and the top ones get picked.  This is open to anyone.  What to speak at Ignite NM 4?  Submit your topic here.

The speakers that get chosen are notified, and the get their talks together.  Then we all come together on December 2nd to watch them present.

Past Ignites

Ignite encourages a wide range of topics.  We’ve seen everything from Curing Bacon to Electric Lowriders (and a lot more in between). See some of the previous Ignite talks here:

• Social Learning
• How the NeXT computer became the iPhone
• The Art and Science of Bacon

Your Job

This is a community event. The more people that join us the more interesting and diverse the topics will be.  Spread the word. Make it your job to tell someone else that they should check out Ignite NM.  And make sure that you are there on December 2nd.

Submit a topic for Ignite NM 4

RSVP for Ignite NM 4

We did run out of seating last time(great turnout, thanks again!). But dont worry this time we are getting a bigger place. So make sure to tell your friends, family, co-workers, or anyone else to come to Ignite!

Ok. We are starting to look for speakers today: Submit your topic to Ignite here. – Ignite is a great chance to tell others about something that you are interested in. We dont limit the topics, except to say something that you are passionate about. Its a fun, fast format. Look at some past presentations to see what other have talk about at Ignite.

Well open up tickets sales (Free RSVP’s) next Monday.

Also, keep up with Ignite: we are now on Facebook & Twitter.

What is Ignite? If you haven’t joined us before, Ignite is a speaking event in which our brilliant speakers only get 5mins (which works out to 15 seconds per slide and 20 slides) in which to talk about there passion. It’s fun, fast paced, and a great place to connect with the community around you that might might not have known existed.

Thanks to everyone who submitted a topic, there are some really great ones this time. We’ll have a blast! (Also remember there are prizes and giveaways!)

RSVP here for Ignite – Some of the giveaways are based on the list of people that RSVP .. so make sure you do. It is easy, quick, and free.

Here is the speaker list:

• Tweet My Dust: Truly Mobile Technology and the Great American Gimmick Rally - Dave Maass
• Be Brief, Be Brilliant, Be Gone - John Freisinger
• Any Surface Computing: 5 ideas to build a NM-based Ambient Computing Platform - Stephen Guerin
• Linking Open Processors - Marko Rodriguez
• Make Some Noise - Jack Moffitt
• Dreaming TechNiks - Almah
• The Art and Science of Bacon - Gabe Ortiz
• Kick Out The Game Jams - Jon Whetzel
• Interactive Maps: from h1n1 swine flu to solar power - John MacCuish
• Writing for the Web - Emily Lewis

For those that dont know, Ignite is a speaking event that give 12 presenters the chance to talk about their passion, for 5mins. While they talk their 20 slides automatically advance every 15 secs behind them. Learn a little about all sort of interesting topics in one fun night.

Submit you Ideas for a presentation here.

And RSVP for the event

Kenny Ham – Death of the Disposable Battery

Luke Nihlen – Video Game Development in NM

Jack Moffitt – New Things Now, Intro to Real Time Search

Planning for the next Ignite has begun. Want to be a part of it? Email Mick.