{"id":542,"date":"2009-09-16T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000542"},"modified":"2009-09-16T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:39:44","slug":"denver-bdnt-sep-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/542","title":{"rendered":"Denver BDNT Sep 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

I helped Brian Timoney, of the Timoney Group<\/a> present last night at the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup<\/a>.\u00a0 It was my second experience presenting at BDNT.\u00a0 (I presented in Jan of 2008 on GWT<\/a>.)\u00a0 But it was my first time at BDNT Denver–down at the Tivoli.<\/p>\n

Co-presenting is always different than presenting alone.\u00a0 I actually had a pretty small role in the presentation–I mostly just drove the demo (underwater navigation with Google Earth to visualize sonar coverage data–it’s very cool, but I don’t feel comfortable putting the demo login up–contact me<\/a> if you want to see it).\u00a0 I worked with Brian on the presentation format.\u00a0 Brian has deep knowledge of GIS concepts (he recently ran a workshop at GIS In the Rockies<\/a>), but he’s used to having more time to cover concepts, and 5 minutes just enforces a certain brevity.<\/p>\n

We had a mentor–Josh Fraser<\/a> of EventVue<\/a> took some time to run through our presentation with us.\u00a0 It was really great to have a third party, especially one in tune with the BDNT, give us feedback.\u00a0 As I told Robert Reich last night, we went into the mentoring session with one presentation, and left with an entirely different one.\u00a0 If you’re thinking about presenting at BDNT, please get a mentor (and you might have to ping the organizers a few times to get one–we did).<\/p>\n

If I ever present at BDNT again, I’ll follow the format we arrived at:<\/p>\n