2008 Partnership Symposium Guest Speaker Auditions
Posted by Charlie Trotter on April 15th, 2008
Since last year’s auditions for Guest Speaker at the Partnership Symposium were such a hit, and since it introduced us to Tim and the Gang, who are now our good friends, we are having the auditions again. This year we are looking to double our pleasure with two guest speakers. Quick! you finance folks are good with numbers, tell me, if we keep doubling the guest speaker number every year, how many will we have in 2020?
Themes The Federal Credit Union Act gives this definition for a Credit Union (Hang in there for the first few stodgy lines, it gets romantic in the last three. Emphasis mine.):
...the term ‘‘Federal credit union’’ means a cooperative association organized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for the purpose of promoting thrift among its members and creating a source of credit for provident or productive purposes;
That statement of purpose is good news, good news we aren’t always good at sharing or remembering. So maybe you can help us get excited and refocussed by speaking to one of these two core ideas.
- Promoting Thrift
- Loans for Provident and Productive Purposes
How to Audition It’s pretty easy, just make a video of why you’d make a good Guest Speaker and tell us which of the two topics you’d like to speak on and why.
Here is a video we made with a few Dos and Don’ts on what to include in your audition video:
To participate, just post a link to your audition video as a comment in this post.
This video is incredible. I love you, Charlie.
I heart Charlie. He is an absolute genius. Well done!
HONK! And HONK-HONK for Charlie!
Chaztoo: As I’ve come to expect, nice stuff. When you do another video, call me – I’ll contribute a reasonably tasty Les Paul-fueled dirty blues solo.
Brilliant man! I laughed, I cried, I fell in love.
Love the use of stop motion.
I second what Andy says. But seriously – I think promoting thrift is BACK baby.
Way to keep us on task!
Nice work Charlie! You guys should play that intro at the Symposium before you show the “try-out” video.
Holly smokes. I am so happy no one else submitted a video last year (especially Charlie).
Charlie, that was incredible.
So Andy, does this mean we can expect to see an entry from you? I’m eagerly awaiting . . .
Brilliant work Charlie and I third what Andy & Denise said! Your wife’s a pretty talented multi-tasker too.
Everyone, thanks so much for loving the video. It was a lot of fun to make, especially with all our CU friends in mind.
We are really excited to see the entries.
Here’s my audition to be a Guest Speaker for the 2008 Partnership Symposium:
http://www.vimeo.com/947089
Charlie, I had fun doing this plus it gave me a chance to use my Flip, iMovie and Vimeo.
Ginny, your video is quite WONDERFUL. This is a fantabulous jumping off point for a great session on the topic. I don’t know who the judges are, but you sure have my vote to be the winner!
Here is Ginny’s video, hopefully embedded in this comment:
<object height="300" width="400"> <param /> <param /> <param /> <param /></object>2008 Partnership Symposium Audition – Ginny Brady from Ginny Brady on Vimeo.
Oh well, the video didn’t embed. Let’s see if I can at least provide a live link to it: Ginny’s audition video.
Here’s my (late) submission for the auditions. Sorry it took me a bit to get it in, its been a busy few weeks with getting ready to launch a new website and the walk and whatnot.
Gah, youtube didn’t embed either. Here’s the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-t5oMQVaw
Andy’s suggestion that his submission was “late” begs the question: when is/was the deadline?
http://www.vimeo.com/1062826