If you’re going to be in Washington, DC on the evening of Thursday, October 22 please join us for the inaugural event of the Intelligence Collaborative. The title and the topic are “Social Media and Next Generation Intelligence.” You can read more about the event and register here.
The Intelligence Collaborative is a nascent professional collaboration and networking group for intelligence professionals and those in related fields. We are purposefully casting a very wide net in this group’s mission. Our target audience encompasses professionals engaged or interested in commercial intelligence, government intelligence, military intelligence, investigative journalism, strategists of all flavors, fraud investigators and librarians. I’m sure I’m leaving some people out in that summary, and if you feel remotely interested feel free to check things out. The event is free, and you can read more about the concept originally launched by my friend Eric Garland on the Competitive Intelligence Community on Ning. You can also take a view of Eric’s video introduction to the Intelligence Collaborative here:
There will be a brief set of presentations at tomorrow’s event. One of the reasons these events will be brief is because we will be using the Pecha Kucha format: 20 slides that auto-advance every 20 seconds. This has in itself been a great learning experience for me, because 20 seconds is NOT a lot of time. You’ve got to be concise, get your points across very quickly and think very carefully about how you will pull everything together. And you’ve got to practice like nobody’s business. You can see a preview of my presentation here:
