Digital Frontiers :: Nick Armstrong at Ignite Fort Collins #1

* By Nick Armstrong
Website : IAmNickArmstrong.com Twitter : @ImNickArmstrong Email : NickMArmstrong@gmail.com

.: The Gettysburg Address
… only took 2 minutes to deliver!
* I’m not as good as Abe, yet.

.: Other Ignite Topics…
“ How To Build Your Own Nuclear Reactor”
“ The Samurai Sword”
… and other various nerdery
* much cooler than my original ideas.

.: Nick Armstrong
Geeky Mad Scientist Galore
Star Trek as a method of Birth Control
Why William Shatner > Chris Pine
GMOs - Let’s Make Tribbles Real
Your Teenage Daughter and Twilight*
* watched this movie more times than I care to admit.

.: The World Today
FCC flip-flopping over Janet
Instant access to instant soapbox
Ravenous local webhabitants
Right to privacy voluntarily abandoned
Confirmation bias
Dysfunctional economy
… which leads to… * idiocracy and ww3

.: The Wild West
Rumor and hearsay
Libel and slander
Credibility and hucksterism
Privacy and the public eye
Digital vigilantism
* There Ain’t No Sheriff .

.: What’s Missing
Honesty
Transparency
Authenticity
Credibility
Accountability
Integrity
By extension, humanity .
* “ Fear is the currency of the impoverished mind .” Nick Armstrong

.: Step Right Up! “ Would you like to learn how to gain 1,000,000 Twitter followers in just 5 seconds ?” * I do not <3 so-called “Marketers” and they do not <3 me.

.: Where’s the Sheriff!? (It’s up to YOU ) What does that make us? * big damn heroes .

.: Digital Gunslingers Wanted
“ You must be the change you wish to see in the world .”
Mahatma Gandhi

.: Digital Gunslinger Values
Honesty
Transparency
Authenticity
Credibility
Accountability
Integrity
Humility
* digital gunslingers don’t actually get to shoot anyone.

.: Honesty Honesty does not imply integrity … “ He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose .” John Lyly * white lies count!

.: Transparency Transparency in business is great . Transparency in Facebook pictures may not be . * transparency and privacy are not mutually exclusive.

.: Authenticity * no authenticity = no sales

.: Credibility * the first word in Social Media is Social for a reason.

.: Accountability Own your mistakes! * or others will make you own them.

.: Integrity Integrity, like Trust, is earned over time! “ I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie ; I can, but I won’t .” Mark Twain * I want a mustache like his.

.: Humility “ In this galaxy there’s a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all that, and perhaps more… only one of each of us .” Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy

By Nick Armstrong
.: Summary Website : IAmNickArmstrong.com Twitter : @ImNickArmstrong Email : NickMArmstrong@gmail.com
No sheriff
Big damn heroes
Obligatory questioning of Facebook profile pictures
Digital gunslingers
Sunsets ‘n’ such
* star trek rules.

Nick by Tamara Lakeman (TamaraLakeman.com)
Slide 2 - Abraham Lincoln by onlinewoman
Slide 3 - Computer Nerds by Automania
Slide 4 - Nick by Leslie Stinson (LeslieStinson.com)
Slide 6 - Naked Cowboy in Times Square by Mister V
Slide 7 - More Wild West by Pulse3
Slide 8 - Snake Oil salesman by inky
Slide 9 - pointing-finger by purpleslog
Slide 10 - "Drawing Hands" - An homage to M.C. Escher by doozzle
Slide 11 - My grandfather, the cowboy by KateMonkey
Slide 12 - Crossed fingers II by Katie Tegtmeyer
Slide 13 - “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Cassy Teasdale
Slide 13 - “Food!” by Leslie Stinson (LeslieStinson.com)
Slide 14 - brands and authenticity by Will Lion
Slide 15 - Bored with the Internet XKCD ( http://www.xkcd.org/77/ )
Slide 16 - Justice delayed by prodigaldog
Slide 17 - Mark Twain, Public Domain
Slide 18 - "Grand Design" Spiral Galaxy M81 by TopTechWriter.US
All photos from CreativeCommons.org unless otherwise specified. * I’m looking for a job :-) Photo Credits Website : IAmNickArmstrong.com Twitter : @ImNickArmstrong Email : NickMArmstrong@gmail.com .: Thank You!

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