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90 Seconds to Prove Your Worth
Last night, I was privileged to be a featured speaker at the event in Portland that really needs a new name: The Inaugural Pecha Kucha/PK/Portland Collaborative Agency Network/Chit-Chat/event!
This lively evening was hosted by the Portland Advertising Federation at the Screening Room 11 in Northwest Portland. Each presenter had only 90 seconds to deliver three PowerPoint slides that conveyed to the crowd who they are, and what media function they performed. And, yes, we were actually encouraged to give a pitch about how great we are!
Here is a run-down of the individuals and their presentations:
1. Katja Asaro (MC), Henry V
Outstanding kick-off the show. Very polished,
2. Kevin Tate, Step Change Group
Social Media Programs and Applications – Interesting guys (other founder Greg Rau was there too.)
3. Mike Rosenberg, EngineWorks, Inc.
(me)
4. Stacy Westbrook, Happy, Inc
Do good work, get good work, be happy. Another polished presentation
5. Betsy Henning, Aha! Writers
Writers, of course. They love deadlines and lots of work. (Started presentation by dropping a dictionary.)
6. Kent Lewis, Anvil Media
Local search marketing company and board member of SEMpdx.
7. Jen Procter, Studio 3
Superheroes of commercial photography!
8. Rebecca Cohen, Reliquary Design
Loves kittens. Art director who knows a friend of mine from high school whom I probably haven’t seen since.
9. Lindsey Hammond, Hub LTD
Lindsey is awesome, always full of energy! Award winning branding/design firm that dabbles in Web sites. All women firm, not by design…but gives them a unique perspective.
10. Patrick Ezell, Copious
Full-service interactive agency. They do it all: design, development, CMS (that other agencies also use for their clients), email, etc.
11. Kimberli Ransom, Kimberli Ranson Photography
Great slides of photos. Has relatives in jail and in congress (or something like that).
All of my fellow presenters delivered fantastic pitches, and most even finished before the ‘gong’ went off. (I was ahead of the gong in the pre-show run through, but didn’t quite make it real-time). In addition, the Screening Room was a great venue for this event. Nice and intimate, with snacks, soft-drinks, beer, and wine. I’m not sure what wine they were pouring, because I stuck with beer. Even though it wasn’t Widmer (we at EngineWorks are a little biased), it was a good Oregon micro-beer, none the less.
I have to say that this inaugural long-named event appears to be the start of a great re-occurring one. Keep an eye-out for the announcement of the next one.
For you creative types, the event still needs an official name, since Pecha Kucha is already trademarked…any ideas?
Kent Lewis 06.26.2008 at 8:48 am
I agree, great event all around. Thanks for the recap, Mike. Your presentation design was solid (I think it helps when you have creative skills in-house with Kent S). Rebecca had me with Kim John Il, very creative person, and such a small world you went to school with her.
Lindsey Hammond 06.26.2008 at 10:38 am
Nice recap Mike!! I had a blast at the event. It was such a great way to network and hear what people are up to. I will totally be hitting up the next one.