Simone Brunozzi

Have you heard me speak?
Now it’s your chance to “vote” me!
Thanks for your appreciation :)

Few days ago I attended a very interesting event here in Singapore, organized by Asia Professional Speakers Singapore.
Among others, there was my friend Fredrik Härén, talking about how to make a million Singapore dollars a year, plus find two months to write a book.
Very interesting talk, which was all about being a great speaker, even before the “money” part.

This is Fredrik’s advice:
1) Repeat yourself: do few speeches, and do them often, so you get great at them.
2) Don’t offer training, it’s better to be a speaker full time.
3) Don’t do a lot of (different) speeches, specialize.
4) Don’t sell yourself, have someone else sell you, or have word-of-mouth be your main way to obtain speaking engagements.
5) Do not (always) charge: sometimes, do free talks, but beware: work for free, but don’t look cheap.
6) Do not “work”, try to have fun as much as you can.
7) Don’t speak. Talk about what you love.

A nice quote from him: “A brand is for a speaker what a band is for a singer.”. Build your brand, from graphics to fonts to everything else.
Great advice. Now I’m mumbling, trying to think how to apply this to the corporate world I’m part of.

Let me share with you this video of Fredrik:

I’m happy to share with you this presentation: Introduction to Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services, plus a demo.
The demo is inserted in the slides. You need to download the presentation if you want to be able to read the notes.
Also, if you like it, please share it on Facebook and Twitter, as well as “favorite” it with your SlideShare account.
Thanks!

Look at this. It gives you an idea of the amount of energy, effort and dedication you truly need to do a great job…
And, by the way, this is only four days.

I take about 110-120 flights a year. Attend more than 90 events. Sleep in at least 80 different hotels.
Not an easy life, I agree… But it’s a nice challenge to have.

Check out my latest slide deck on “Architecting for the Cloud”.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.

This is an old, unsolved question.
How can you measure a presentation in terms of:
- Effectiveness;
- Impact;
And assess if:
- It’s Memorable;
- It generates Awareness;
- It generates Leads.

I’ve always struggled with this point: no matter how much feedback you get from the audience, in the form of emails, tweets, or filled paper forms, it’s never enough.

I’m trying to think of a simple, creative way to solve this need. Suggestions?

So cool! CNN.com writes a story about people that found their jobs in “creative” ways. This is my story :)

It’s two years now! Still an amazing experience!

Everything started… here.
It’s an interesting story, “How I got hired by Amazon.com”.

From May 10th to 28th I’ll be in Australia, doing a business trip for Amazon Web Services.

Here’s my schedule:
May 10th: Perth
May 11th-15th: Melbourne
May 15th-18th: Gold Coast
May 18th-21st: Melbourne
May 21st-28th: Sydney

I’m busy on most days, but I’d be happy to meet with you if you’re around.
If so, please email me at this address: simoneb at am__a__zon dot com (remove _ ), and we’ll arrange a meeting!

Thanks :)

This week I’m in India, at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010, in Bangalore.
One of the biggest developer conferences on Earth.

I’ll break all records, doing:
3 talks;
2 keynotes;
1 workshop.

Here some examples of my slides:
One.
Two.
Comments are appreciated.

The workshop is very technical, but I’ll do a demo and I doubt I’ll use slides. So… You can’t watch it :)

In the next few days my blog activity will go down to zero, at most. I hope you’ll use this chance to look at some of my older posts.
Maybe you have better things to do, but I think it’s worth a try.
I don’t want to give you any hint… Just randomly look.

Or, if you read italian, check out my italian blog.

I wish you a great week!
Mine started well from the beginning ;-)