I am a fairly regular speaker at events in Australia and elsewhere. I can usually make myself available to speak at your event or organisation. Please contact me if you think I could offer something.

All my presentations are available for viewing and download at my page at Slideshare and are linked below. The presentations are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. An email with an explanation of what you’d like to do with the presentation usually results in me getting the source file to you in some form.

2008 Speaking Engagements

Slide decks for speaking engagements I have done in 2008 are shown below.

All you do is talk talk - Towards shared language to enable social tools in your business @ BarCamp Sydney v3, 5 April and BarCamp Canberra #1, 19 April- a brief look at building common language and understanding in organisations wanting to adopt social tools.

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2007 Speaking Engagements

In 2007, I spoke at several major conferences. You can see the slide decks for each of those below.

Love in an elevator - UX as business strategy @ Oz-IA 2007, Sydney, 23 September - a look at how adopting UX as a part of your overall strategy can help your product or site be more successful.

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I am Knowledge Worker 2.0, hear me roar @ Office 2.0, San Francisco, 7 September - a discussion on the changing nature of knowledge workers and how their organisations can help them be better at their jobs and more productive.

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Knowledge Worker 2.0 - Power to the people @ IIM National Conference, Canberra, 16 August - examines open communities, social media and information sharing from a KM perspective.

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I still haven’t found what I’m looking for - Social computing benefits for business and government @ Web Standards Group, Canberra, 26 July - exposes some of the benefits for business and government of using social media tools as a medium for sharing and distributing information and knowledge.

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Liberate Your Control Freaks @ WebJam 3, Sydney, 7 June - a rapidfire look at some of the strategies and benefits of social media in business.

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Earlier material

Material here was written prior to mid-2007 and is retained for historical purposes.

The ACME Guide

Written by Stephen Collins and downloaded over 2000 times since March 2006, The ACME Guide (.pdf, ~7.5Mb) 3rd Edition is a valuable resource for ColdFusion developers of all levels. It provides detailed instructions on how to prepare a PC or Mac workstation for development using ColdFusion and several Open Source tools including the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and Eclipse.

Reaching the Peak

Presented at webDU 2006, this session covers development using the ACME toolset. You can view the paper from that session here (.pdf, ~1Mb).

Configuring a Mac Intel Development Environment with multiple ColdFusion instances

Originally blogged by Stephen Collins, this valuable guide (.pdf, ~1.2Mb) is a useful companion to The ACME Guide.

Data in the hands of a few makes for order; but data in the hands of many makes for endless possibilities.
Tara Hunt, Citizen Agency at GOVIS 2007