James Coutts » Speaking

After The Day

jamescoutts — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:47:59 +0000

On 20 February, I spoke at the Museums and galleries marketing day about ‘Second Life: a new third place?’.

This is how it felt. A big cinema space. A huge screen behind me. A stage. Me wired up (and my voice booming round the room). Sound guys recording me from the top right. Lights shining in my eyes (now I know why rock stars wear shades!). About 60 people in the space. 35 mins talking (I went fast!), 25 mins Q&A. A dry mouth once in a while. Think it went well – the questions were great fun. Will find out more from the feedback results and listening (if I can bear it) to the audio.

The Big Smoke

jamescoutts — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:51:18 +0000

On 20 February, I’m speaking at the Museums and galleries marketing day about ‘Second Life: a new third place?’ .

Speaking Gig

jamescoutts — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:44:36 +0000

I’m giving a ‘get them thinking’ keynote on the latest web techologies to Forward Scotland and six other partner organisations on 28 March in Stirling.

Forward Scotland are re-thinking their main website and sub-sites. The idea is to bring together the seven sites, redesign and implement a new approach – a big task.

UPDATE: Talk went down well. Gave away two copies of The Corporate Blogging Book by Debbie Weil, in a novel deal which included me promising to Debbie that I would email her a photo to prove I did the handout! Think she is going to blog it too. Thanks Debbie!

British Council and SAC Talk

jamescoutts — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:54:39 +0000

On February 5 I’m giving a talk to a group of international curators for the British Council and Scottish Arts Council from Germany, China, Hungary and Russia on craftscotland international plans. Should be fun. I wonder if there will be translators (which is always interesting – it is amazing how a very short sentence in English can result in quite a huge translation!).

Falkirk Council Keynote

jamescoutts — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:32:32 +0000

On 17 February 2007 I’m keynote speaker at a Falkirk Council event for their Visual Arts and Crafts Department. The talk will be on building a website – practical advice on creating and maintaining websites for their craft membership. Taking place in Callendar House. More details later.