Category Archives: Speaking

EdTech 2012 Keynote Slides :: Digital Literacies for Life

In June I gave a key­note at the annual EdTech con­fer­ence, organ­ised by the Irish Learn­ing Tech­no­logy Asso­ci­ation (ILTA). The event’s theme was “Digital Lit­eracies for Life.” This was a really well-run event, and I was impressed over and over by the forward-thinking attendees. I really enjoyed talks by Doug Belshaw and the team of Les­ley …

July 18, 2012 – 10:12 | By martha | Posted in Speaking | Comments Off

Writing Elsewhere Around the Web

I took a short break from Tues­day News­day and reg­u­lar writ­ing here to do some guest posts recently. Below is a quick roundup of what I’ve been up to in terms of art­icles writ­ten, pod­casts and speak­ing engage­ments.   Design­ing Enga­ging and Enjoy­able Long-Form Read­ing Exper­i­ences – guest art­icle for Smash­ing Magazine This art­icle incor­por­ates …

March 17, 2012 – 18:39 | By martha | Posted in Personal, Speaking | Tagged , , | Comments Off

CS Forum 2011 :: My Workshop Slides & Content

Last week I delivered a half-day work­shop at Con­tent Strategy 2011 Lon­don on Design­ing Nar­rat­ive Con­tent.  We covered top­ics like what makes nar­rat­ive con­tent effect­ive versus use­less, how to optim­ise work­flow for nar­rat­ive con­tent, and tech­no­logy options for nar­rat­ive con­tent.  The slides are below. Dur­ing the last sec­tion of the work­shop we cre­ated our own, short, …

September 14, 2011 – 14:56 | By martha | Posted in Speaking | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

CS Forum: Designing Narrative Content Workshop

If you’re work­ing in the area of con­tent strategy, writ­ing, devel­op­ing or design­ing web sites, mar­ket­ing or any­thing in between, you should prob­ably be plan­ning on head­ing to the Con­tent Strategy Forum in Lon­don from Septem­ber 5th – 7th. CS Forum has excel­lent speak­ers includ­ing Karen McGrane, Gerry McGov­ern, Kristina Halvor­son, Erin Kis­sane.  They’ll be cov­er­ing …

August 16, 2011 – 16:19 | By martha | Posted in Speaking | Tagged , , , | Comments Off