Keynotes and Seminars
"Talented speaker."
- Jeff Towers, Nortel
We regularly provide seminars and other public events that inspire: you
can choose to register from our public schedule,
or we'll help you host a professional development or fundraising event
tailored for your organization: if you wish to invite others to attend,
we can help publicize it. David Berman personally and expertly presents
each public keynote and seminar.
"Creative... encouraging exchanges. David
is a great speaker, making concepts more comprehensible.
- Beatrice Pollard, Forum of Federations, Ottawa
To register for a seminar hosted by David Berman Communications, get our Seminar Registration Form (PDF) or call (613) 728-6777.
Strategy, Design, Web, Project Management:
Seven Habits of Highly Effective
Web Sites (keynote lecture)
Learn the seven pivotal ideas that will
help you get the outcomes you deserve from your Web presence.
Successful Management of Web Site Projects (one
or two-day seminar)
Learn "The System" for bringing in Web
projects on time, on budget, and on target.
Developing Your Web Strategy (one- or two-day
seminar)
Two-day seminar on how to apply a proven step-by-step strategic
process to get remarkable business results from any Web project.
Building a Winning Strategic Plan for Your Impossible Project
(one-day seminar)
David demystifies the complete path to developing
your plan to save money, lower stress, save time, and yield great lasting
outcomes from communications projects.
Designing With a Purpose: The Role of
Strategy in The Creative Process (workshop)
David will teach you a 10-step process to include strategy in every process, helping you get better outcomes for you and your client every time, through strategic design.
Creating Sites That Matter: Effective
Web Information Design (one-day seminar)
David shows you how to make
your content meaningful to your audience, sharing his success as a senior
design consultant to some of Canada's largest sites.
Principles of Graphic Design and Electronic Publishing (two-day seminar) Two-day seminar on how to influence your audiences on all channels, using excellent graphic design and the latest technologies.
Accessibility and CLF 2.0: Liberate Your Web Site (one-day
seminar)
Learn how accessibility will broaden your audience, and how to make your
site more useful for everyone, while complying with international W3C and CLF 2.0 standards.
Getting it Right the First Time: Proofreading and Content Quality Control (one-day
seminar)
Gain a strong fundamental understanding of the value, principles and techniques of creating and maintaining accurate and consistent content quality control for Internet and print publishing.
Ethics, Social Responsibility, Professionalism:
Weapons of Mass Deception: Design & Social
Responsibility (keynote lecture)
David's most famous presentation:
visual communicators have way more power than they think: to do
damage or to help repair the World. Which will you choose?
Real-Time Ethics: Prospering through
Principles
(workshop)
Workshop on how to solve everyday ethical dillemas in professional
life by remaining in alignment with yourself,
and focussed on your values.
Certification (Accreditation) And Professional Codes of Conduct for Designers
(keynote lecture)
Lecture describing the benefits and challenges of government certification
for graphic designers.
Greener Meetings: Professional Climate Change (keynote lecture)
Learn how and why to start designing greener events: it will save money, help heal the planet, and it's easier than you think.
Organizational and Personal Management:
Successful Management of Creative Professionals
(seminar)
A toolbox of effective personnel management practices and procedures to help creative organizations build and retain loyal, energized, interdependent teams.
Seven Habits of Highly Profitable Design
Firms (keynote lecture or seminar)
Learn how to implement the seven powerful techniques that distinguish the agencies that run profitable, smoothly, and energetically year-over-year.
Plan or Be Planned: "Not Another Time
Management Seminar!" (keynote/mini-seminar)
Time management is just one part of a larger issue: priority and
choice management. First we have to make sure we're heading in the
right direction, and establish who's in control... only
then can we focus on how to do those things most efficiently
and precisely, and thus leave the most powerful legacy we can.
Starting Now: Strategic Priority Management
for Creative Professionals (full day seminar)
Apply David's results-oriented project strategy to your own life:
give us a day and we'll show you step-by-step methods to turn your
intentions into action, including learning
when saying No is really just saying Yes to something greater.
Information for our out-of-town guests to Ottawa:
Search for hotels found in the downtown Ottawa area: 
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Ottawa weather link, to help you pack appropriately: http://www.ottawakiosk.com/we.html
Map to the Minto Business Centre - where many of our seminars are held:
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Online Courses
In addition to the above in-person seminars, you can also access online e-learning courses on related topics (from Vubiz) in both English and French.
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According to an industry survey of conference attendees conducted in 2005, regarding session formats, people prefer educational seminars over all other kinds of content presentation, with almost 85% of respondents rating them as "very or somewhat important" (in comparison to only 50% for motivational speakers and 43% for celebrity speakers). Attendees want to acquire better skills, participate in structured training, and enjoy the sharing of ideas.
Reviewed March 13, 2008
