Audience teaches me a lesson in front of 400 people ( San Francisco, 2007, @Etech ). We joked about it later over drinks - he apologized, even though he was right). “Lets start 20 minutes late with gear that doesn’t work”  (San Francisco 2008, @Adobe Software ). Best story wins $100 gift amazon.com gift certificate One of the goals of the book is to talk about things going wrong in public speaking. Few books ever mention how often things go wrong, even for experienced speakers, and I want to make sure these stories get told.

Audience teaches me a lesson in front of 400 people ( San Francisco, 2007, @Etech ). We joked about it later over drinks - he apologized, even though he was right). “Lets start 20 minutes late with gear that doesn’t work”  (San Francisco 2008, @Adobe Software ). Best story wins $100 gift amazon.com gift certificate One of the goals of the book is to talk about things going wrong in public speaking. Few books ever mention how often things go wrong, even for experienced speakers, and I want to make sure these stories get told.

On Wednesday after Reboot, Nancy & Mark Duarte headed up to San Francisco to the fabulous Fairmont Hotel for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s 2009 Women of Influence Awards. The PZ book was awarded the Certificate of Excellence for design at the 38th Annual Bookbuilders West Awards held in Oakland in January. Last week I was in sunny Silicon Valley, USA for three days of seminars in the first ever Presentation//Reboot. The seminars were sold out and were limited to an intimate size of about 32 per day.