If you had five minutes on stage, what would you say? Allowed 20 slides, changing every 15 seconds, what images would you show? That’s the challenge for an ‘Ignite’ talk – and if you know about Ignite events, you’ll know how popular they’ve become. In communications training I’ll often ask participants to prepare a three-minute [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Igniting science communication
Posted in Communicating science, tagged Communicating science on September 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dublin bikes & those e-voting machines
Posted in Policy, Sustainable living, Transport on September 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Can you suggest any uses for an e-voting machine? I’m thinking we could rent them out for Lisbon Treaty referenda — free for the first 30 minutes — and hope that users wouldn’t return them! An idea prompted by the fact that Dublin’s new bicycles have hit the streets at last : 450 bright and [...]






