Speaking

It seems silly to write these things in the third person but who am I to buck the trend, right?

Joe Boughner is an energetic and entertaining speaker and workshop leader with a sense of humour. Comfortable with crowds of any size, he speaks knowledgeably and passionately about topics related to social media, strategic communications, employee collaboration and change management.

Upcoming events

• Workshop facilitator, Fill Your Toolbox: How and Why to Craft Personas and Journey Maps (NAGC Communications School) – June 7-9, 2016

Comments

Comments from those who’ve attended one of Joe’s presentations:

“Probably the best session of the day – engaging and informative”

“Informative AND entertaining!”

“Totally amped by this presentation – Infectious enthusiasm”

“Gave really good examples and easy to remember. Great speaker!”

“Excellent presentation – great energy and content.”

“Terrific questions and approach – awesome!”

“Great points, well presented and very engaging.”

“Joe Boughner is great; having him do a class on implementing external social media for a full day would be great.”

“I appreciated very much that the presenter had a strategic comms background and that social media was discussed strategically as part of the media mix in your comms plan.”

Past events

A sample of recent presentations includes:

• Speaker, Authenticity means never having to censor your curse words (BConnected Conference) – April 23-24, 2016
• Speaker, Counting Apples: Defining success in social by understanding what you’re actually trying to do (Public Sector Social Media: Conference Board of Canada), October 27, 2015
• Speaker, Delivering Delight on Both Sides of the Screen: A new approach to audience engagement through social media (National Association of Government Communicators – Communications School) – June 4, 2015
• Panelist, Different Paths – Careers Outside of Journalism (Carleton University Journalism Society) – March 11, 2015
• Discussion leader, Digital analytics: Making them relevant to your association (CSAE Ottawa-Gatineau MarComm Networking Session) – November 11, 2014
• Speaker, Delivering Delight on Both Sides of the Screen: A new approach to audience engagement through social media (Public Sector Social Media – Conference Board of Canada) – October 21, 2014
• Speaker, Delivering Delight on Both Sides of the Screen: A new approach to audience engagement through social media (Social Capital Conference) – July 26, 2014
• Roundtable host, “Social media marketing: Beyond platitudes and hype,” BlissDom Canada 2013, October 5, 2013
• Speaker, “Power Hour: Finding my bliss,” BlissDom Canada 2013, October 5, 2013
• Presenter, “Microsoft Engage: Getting Started with Enterprise Social” (Edmonton) – March 6, 2013
• Workshop leader, “Making it all make sense, understanding and measuring multi-channel outreach” (IABC Ottawa PD Series) – February 20, 2013
• Co-presenter, Social Intranets: 10 Ways to Drive Adoption (Gilbane Boston) –  November 28, 2012
• Presenter, Building the social enterprise (Microsoft Inspired Enterprise Series) – October 30, 2012
• Presenter, Web Engagement Management: Understanding how your social efforts lead to meaningful engagement online (Social Capital Conference) – July 21, 2012
• Roundtable facilitator, Why don’t they understand? Change management for the social media advocate (Social Capital Conference) –  July 21, 2012
• Workshop leader, Building the Digital NPO (Carleton Centre for Community Innovation) – April 25, 2012
• Co-presenter, Enterprise 2.0 – Building the social organization (Social Capital Conference) – July 23, 2011
• Workshop leader, Social media for communicators (IABC Ottawa PD series) – November 9, 2010
• Presenter, Is my organization ready for social media? (Acuity Forums‘ Executing Social Media) – March 11, 2010
• Workshop leader, How to build a framework for social networking (ALI Social Media for Government) – March 4, 2010
• Panelist, Social media for fun and (non-)profits (Third Tuesday Ottawa) – March 29, 2009

Joe was also the founder and co-organizer of Case Study Jam, a now-defunct monthly event in Ottawa for which he frequently served as emcee and host.