Learning to Remember

By Carlee Mallard, on December 16th, 2010%

December 15 – 5 Minutes

Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.

These fruits that grow in Jamaica remind me on little miniature brains (but they taste really good with eggs).

This was sort of a good exercise, except by nature of the exercise and having been reflecting on the past year for over a week now, mostly what came to mind were the big life-changing moments of 2010 or just the really exciting moments. I . . . → Read More: Learning to Remember

PechaKucha at ideaSPARK: Behind The Scenes

By Carlee Mallard, on September 29th, 2010%

PechaKucha Night at ideaSPARK on September 16th, 2010 was by far the biggest and most seamless PKN to date. With 14 presenters—out of about 26

Me and Alex Gibson (our emcee) at the PKN after-party celebrating 1 year in Raleigh

submissions—and a packed room of about 200 attendees (out of the over 300 that registered), the fact that it’s popularity had seemed to doubled overnight was sort of obvious.

While I expected the PK night during SPARKcon to be a more popular event, I was completely unprepared for what actually happened. I predicted that recruiting speakers would be . . . → Read More: PechaKucha at ideaSPARK: Behind The Scenes

PechaKucha Night #4 at ideaSPARK

By Carlee Mallard, on September 7th, 2010%

SPARKcon opens with 5th Annual ideaSPARK at KINGS

August 18, 2010—Raleigh, NC – SPARKcon 2010 will open with a sharing of new ideas and creativity at the 5th Annual ideaSPARK. The event will take place at the recently renovated KINGS in downtown Raleigh on September 16th, 2010 at 7:30 pm. This year’s ideaSPARK repeats last year’s successful format as a PechaKucha Night. The Thursday night opener will be the fourth PechaKucha Night coordinated by PKN Raleigh organizers and sponsored by Lonerider Beer, KINGS, Yelp! and TechShop.

What is SPARKcon? SPARKcon is a showcase of creativity, talent and ideas of “The . . . → Read More: PechaKucha Night #4 at ideaSPARK

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