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<p>Posted by <a
href=\http://moz.com/community/users/98309\>EricaMcGillivray</a/pp>
Are you ready for
<a href=http://mz.cm/19lSWSQ>MozCon 2014, July 14-16th, in
Seattle</a>? We've been up to our elbows in planning since December and
about knee-high since the last MozCon. Before we go any further, you have bought
your MozCon 2014 ticket, right? These tickets will sell out...</pp
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In 2012, we started the
<strong>community speaker program,</strong> where we take speaking
submissions from community members (that's you!) and select the four best
pitches to go up on the MozCon stage. These sessions are extremely popular with
the audience, and in our feedback, you ask us to bring back the program
every year.</pp>
Last year, speaker submissions were open for a week and a half, and over 130
of you sent in pitches! You did such a great job that the MozCon selection
committee had a crazy hard time selecting four amazing people to present their
ideas in front of the whole audience. I wrote a bit last year about
<a
href=http://moz.com/blog/announcing-the-mozcon-2013-community-speakers>what
makes a great MozCon community speaker pitch</a>. One important
point: Do keep in mind that these talks are only 15 minutes long. Make your
pitch reasonable for that time limit, as you'll only be able to pack so much
breadth and depth of information into that time frame. And, I expect even more
greatness from you this year. :)</pp style=text-align: center;>
<img
src=http://d1avok0lzls2w.cloudfront.net/uploads/blog/5331fa8c8251a1.99220530.jpg
alt=A Litsa on the MozCon 2013 stage style=float: none; margin: 0px;br>
<em>2013 Community Speaker A. Litsa talks about increasing conversions in
email marketing.</em/ph2>
The details about the community speaker submission process:</h2ul>
<listrong>Your pitch must be submitted by Friday, April 11 at
5:00 p.m. PDT.</strong/li> <li>Please submit only one pitch.
We're looking for the best of the best.</li> <li>Presentations will
be 15 minutes long with an added ~5 minutes for questions. Please frame your
topic with that in mind.</li> <li>Topics can range the online
marketing spectrum, so submit something you're passionate and knowledgeable
about.</li> <li>No matter whether you've never spoken before or
have spoken hundreds of times, we want to hear from
you.</li> <li>Where these presentations fall on the MozCon schedule
is TBD. So please plan to attend all of MozCon, July
14-16.</li> <li>Widescreen-format slide decks are due Tuesday, July
1, before MozCon.</li> <li>If you are selected as a community
speaker and you already have a MozCon ticket, we will refund your money or
transfer it to someone else; and if you don't have one, we'll comp you one! (You
will still have to book your own hotel, flight, and
other transportation.)</li> <li>You will be invited to attend
our speakers' dinner on Sunday, July 13. And pre-dinner, there will be time to
walk on our stage.</li> <li>You must be at MozCon in person. Sorry,
no Skype, Google Hangouts, or other video conferencing.</li> <li>Our
community speaker selections are final. Everyone who tossed their hat in the
ring will be notified via email whether or not they were
selected.</li> <li>At this point, we're still finalizing the
2014 agenda, so you won't know exactly what the other speakers are talking
about. However, I do encourage you to look at the lineup and see what's missing
or already covered. Pretend you're me or another committee member, and find the
holes.</li/ulp>
Thank you to everyone who has already submitted their community speaker
ideas for MozCon 2014. We'll be in touch very soon!</piframe
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I can't wait to see all the awesome submissions for potential community
speakers. And, a big thank you to our past MozCon community speakers, who've
made this such a success: 
<a href=http://www.whitespark.ca/>Darren Shaw</a>, <a
href=http://yoyoseo.com/>Dana Lookadoo</a>, <a
href=http://www.agenciamestre.com/>Fabio Ricotta</a>, <a
href=http://www.mybinding.com/>Jeff McRitchie</a>, <a
href=http://www.rmoov.com/>Sha Menz</a>, <a
href=http://www.swellpath.com/>Mike Arnesen</a>, <a
href=http://www.bazaarvoice.com/>A. Litsa</a>, and <a
href=http://frac.tl/>Kelsey Libert</a>.</pp style=text-align:
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alt=Dive right in and submit your pitch today style=float: none; margin:
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<em>Dive in and submit your pitch today! You can do it. Photo
credit: </ema
href=http://www.hallaminternet.com/2013/moz-skydiving/em>Hallam Internet
Limited</em/aem>.</em/pp>
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