Speaking

He speak on a wide variety of topics related to social media usually as a keynoter. Since 2006, I have addressed more than 100 audiences in nine countries on social media business topics.

Some of the most requested:

• Joining the Conversation: moving from traditional marketing into conversational marketing
  
• Twitterville People: he tells the real world stories of how Twitter has dramatically helped companies grow, provide greater customer service and changed the dynamic of the human conversation ·     How Social Media Improves your Organization: this highly customized talk is tailored to the professional interests of each audience.
• Online Enterprise communities: touring virtual spaces to find real business benefits.  

My approach is to be a storyteller and I select anecdotes from over 100 case studies I have gathered that I think will be useful or valuable for each particular audience.  I inject humor humor into talks primarily designed to provide new ideas and practical points. I am as interactive as I possibly can be.

I want each attendee to walk away feeling he or she has learned something new that will be useful to them in their professions.

For information on booking me to speak, please contact Steve Gardner, by email or Twitter. <SGardner@fivestarspeakers.com>,

UPCOMING TALKS

• Blog Potomac, Washington, DC, Oct 23
• SNCR Symposium, Harvard Faculty, Cambridge MA, Nov. 5
• London Social Media Summit , Nov.12
• Kansas City FiveStar Showcase, Nov. 18
  
• Chicago, TBD, Dec. 8

 PREVIOUS TALKS [partial]

Companies & Organizations

• Cisco
• HewlettPackard
• DowJones Conversational Corporation,  Roundtable, PA
• Intel, San Francisco & Las Vegas
  
• SAP, Palo Alto
• Dell Computer, Austin
• US Embassy, Rome
• CNET
  
• Microsoft Corp., Redmond & Brussels
• L’Oreal, Paris
• Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco
• Hitachi Data Systems, Santa Clara
• CNET, San Francisco
• Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park
• GlobalSpec, Saratoga, NY
• Amazon.com, Seattle
• Executive & Gov’t communicators, Ottawa
• Government Communicators, Toronto
• National Booksellers Conference, Las Vegas
• Seattle Chamber of Commerce
• AAF Houston

Events (partial)

• Twitterville Book Tour-Canada.
  
• TWTRCON, Nikko Hotel, San Francisco
• Les Blogs, Paris
• Internet 2.0, London
• Evento Blog Espana, Seville, Spain
• Community 2.0, Las Vegas
• WOMMA 2006, San Francisco
• Mesh Forum 2006, San Francisco
• Blog Orlando, 2007
• California Librarians Assoc., Long Beach, CA 2008
• SNCR Forum 2007 Las Vegas, Napa 2008, SF 2009
• WE Media, Miami, 2007,
• BloggerconCN, Guangzhou, China, 2008
• Infopresse, Montreal, 2007
• Blogworld 07, Las Vegas
• Measurement Summit, Manchester, NH
• IT Cork,  Ireland
• Office 2.0, 2006, 2007, San Francisco
• Third Tuesday Ottawa & Toronto 2006
• Silicon Vikings, Stanford University
  
• Social Media Marketing Summit, Moscone Center, SF
• Social Media Strategies Conference, Stanford Court, SF
  
• CNBloggercon, Guangzhou, China Nov. 10, 2009
• SARTA, Hyatt Hotel, Sacramento March 23, 2009