My PodCamp New Hampshire wrap-up post will be coming, but I just couldn’t wait to share the “Best Of Battle Decks PodCamp NH” video with everyone. I had the opportunity to lead a session while at the Inaugural PodCamp NH last weekend. Having participated in the Battle Decks session led by Gradon Tripp at PodCamp Boston and seeing the Battle Decks SXSW video, I was inspired to bring it to NH. The result was five presenters, three judges, five PPT’s and a ton of laughs.
While Battle Decks is predominantly for fun, it is a great exercise for the public speaker to be able to speak on their feet about a topic they know nothing about and convince the audience that THEY are the expert at that particular topic. All of the speakers & judges did an amazing job thinking on their feet while, most, made us believe they were the experts on the politics of social media dancing and the dying art of the moustache!
The judges, who were scoring all presenters on a scale from zero to 10, all agreed that both Diane Vautier and John Herman were the big winners of the day as they faced off during the Battle Decks Deck Off. Five slides into the Deck Off, John Herman determined that there was room for two winners – even though he felt “3″ would have been more appropriate – and stopped.
Thanks to presenters Ed Justen, Steve Garfield, Anthony Liang, Diane Vautier and John Herman and judges Seth Cohn, Tara Sullivan and Leah Carey for participating and making this session a success. You all rock! I can’t wait for the PodCamp NH in 2010 where Battle Decks will be bigger and badder than ever!
