I’ve been to several conferences where the speaker I was expecting to capture my imagination utterly failed. It happens to even the best speakers, and it happens a lot on panel discussions and with tag-team speakers who don’t have a well–polished performance prepared.
So it’s nice to see Shel Israel apologize to attendees of the Les Blogs conference on blogging. No need to grovel, but a short nod to those who were expecting a better presentation goes a long way toward showing respect for the audience. Israel and Naked Conversations co-author Robert Scoble co-presented for the first time.
Says Israel:
"To those of you whom we disappointed at Les Blogs, all we can do is
apologize and tell you we will try to do better next time. A lot better."
Update: For the hundreds of visitors from Scoble’s blog, welcome. I’m glad I caught the broken link in this posting before you arrived.
Previous posts:
Lost Art of the Apology: Version 1, Version 2, Version 3, Version 4
Tags: robert scoble; shel israel; lesblogs