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Each year student activities departments from around the country vote for their favorite speaker of the year. Last week, in Atlanta, we were honored as the 2008 College Speaker of the Year. To add to the honor, it’s our second year in a row winning the award. Last year we
Swift Kick is a laboratory. While there are many layers of experiments underneath (business structure, marketing, virtual company, transparency, etc.) our primary value to education is in the ability to visualize, put together, and sustain experiments in the fields of student engagement and education technology. To be clear, we are
Oklahoma Christian University partnered with Apple Computers to offer every 1st year student attending an orientation the option of a new Apple MacBook, iPhone, or iPod Touch! While it sounds unique, it’s not the first time as Abilene Christian University (ACU) were the pioneers in offering** a free iPhone or
I was complaining to my girlfriend last night about talking vs. doing. That I like talking. It’s much easier than doing. We get paid to talk right now. But it is a small part of the solution. Reconfiguring the system is doing – it’s much harder and a much bigger
Used to be one had to put long hours of Googling into research. Not so much anymore. Want to get and stay current? Use delicious.com to find the fast-fingered searcher types in any field. I thought this was a known way to use delicious – that of course it was
We semi joke that speakers don’t get paid to speak, but rather to show up on time as that is the hardest part of the job. To show you what I mean, here’s what the last 53 hours of my life looked like: Feb 26th 5:00 pm – drive 1
Traveling has me late with this post. Procrastination too. I’ve been worried about “sour grapes” and hoped that with a little time, I might better be able to get the right tone. A while back, when it seemed that we did not win the MacArthur DML grant, I said I
Even though right now, the majority of our income is from our trainings for schools, we’ve always believed that speaking was only a piece of the bigger goal of solving student apathy. We speak, but we aren’t speakers. In fact, we think there are speakers out there like, Dave Coleman,
At the beginning of 2007, we created company goals for the coming year. In 2005 and 2006 we did a similar exercise. This last year we wanted to create more specific, measurable goals that we could follow up on. At our company retreat last month, we reviewed the 07 goals.
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