Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs

BO - The Greatest of Achievements These Days I saw Charlie Rose speak with PR legend Howard Rubenstein at a media relations conference hosted by the Bulldog Reporter in San Franciso. Charlie was fascinating. Really connected. I've seen a plethora, a bevy, a melange (I meant to say "a whole bunch" but got carried away) of good presenters and speakers. Good Is Not Hard All it takes to be a good presenter is hard work and practice. If you're not good - you have only one person to blame: yourself. But to be great you have to be good - and connect. Connecting is pretty special; it's an art. Maybe a gift. A heavenly endowment. You have to be an expert, wise, personable, dynamic, charismatic, likable. And ... be able to tell your story with the ultimate in sophistication - simplicity. Great Is The only speaker I've seen anywhere near rivaling Charlie Rose was Steve Wynn . He was unbelievable. Excellent. Saw him speak at an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of ...

Confession. I'm a bad bad boring blogger. Any of you reading this blog irregularly already know that. I don't blog consistently. Just not that prolific of a pontificating pontificator. I'm not that interesting. Don't have the urge to blog daily "sweet nothings." (Emphasis on nothing.) Only do it when I have something to say, or need to test some new whiz-shebang Web2.0 technology. I'm just a bad bad boring blogger. Odious & Odoriferous I'm bad. But at least I come by it honestly. I find it odious (Smell-bad-ifferus) to simply post a blog comment like "Joe Know-It-All " had a great post on "click here to check it out." IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ... JUST SAY IT! Plus - Ive been pretty busy writing and re-writing (and re-writing ad nauseum) a couple stories of my own (screenplays) as well as editing 1o-15 business articles a week for Expert Access , a B2B e-zine with 135, 000 subscribers. I do have quite a few sto...