Monthly Archives: September 2010

Conferences

My Modern Media Man Presentation

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Today I was at the Modern Media Man Summit and while I was there I had the opportunity to give a presentation. I submitted a panel called Dad as Digital Historian. However, my session became a panel and then it went back to me making a single presentation again. In the meantime the session changed and evolved and became one called Energize Your Blog with Surf Stopping Images. Basically it was about photography. So I ended up telling everyone some ways in which I take my photos and then how I post them and host them all over the place. Here is the session, I think I got it all. Thanks Nathan Hangen for running the camera.

If you would like to see the panels from my session you can see it at https://benspark.com/M3

Disclosure: – The video was shot on the versatile Kodak PlaySport camera that I received for free to film the Roger Williams Paddle back in July. I’ve quickly made it my favorite video camera and in a pinch still camera.

Read To Me Dad

I Am Not Weird – A Read To Me, Dad Review

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My friend Kevin Metzger, whom I just met yesterday in real life for the first time but whom I have talked to numerous times online in the past year or so, sent me two copies of his daughter Haley’s book, “I Am Not Weird”. I decided that I would review the book here on BenSpark.com rather than on Read To Me, Dad because eventually I am going to pull that blog and the content there over here and do more view reviews with Eva and books for Children here. I’m going to stop spreading myself and my content across the web and off you content here in one place. So if you want to just read the Read To Me Dad stuff then that is cool you can still go to http://readtomedad.com but it will point here to the Read To Me Dad category. Here is the view review of the book.

Haley’s book is a wonderful one written by a strong intelligent courageous child. As a father I am blown away by this book and how much self confidence and self awareness Haley must have at such a young age. I also enjoyed that She signed Eva’s copy. Here is the link to purchase the book – http://myspellingsucks.com/weird/

Oh yes, the second copy. I am giving that away to a lucky reader.

How to Enter this Giveaway

(Please read the rules. entries not following the rules will not be counted and will be deleted)Contest open to US Residents Only.

1 Entry – Mandatory to Enter – To enter please visit the Let’s Cure CP site. Watch the video on the home page and tell me what you think. Leave this as your FIRST comment.
(If this is not done your entry will not count)

Additional Entries (Leave 1 Comment for EACH Entry)

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    “Win a copy of I Am Not Weird from @BenSpark – Enter here http://bit.ly/blvs8Y #giveaway“
    (Leave a comment with a link to your tweet. Here is how to get that link to your tweet)

The contest will run for one week. I will choose the winner through Random.org on September 18. I will not respond to any comments so that I can run the Random.org numbers correctly. The winner will be notified via e-mail and will have 48 hours to reply so that we can send the winner their prize. Contest is open to US Only.

Disclosure: – I received my copies of I Am Not Weird for free however all opinions on the book and the reactions as we read the book are 100% authentic and our own.

The video was shot on the versatile Kodak PlaySport camera that I received for free to film the Roger Williams Paddle back in July. I’ve quickly made it my favorite video camera and in a pinch still camera.