198 - 50 Minutes to Keynote and Quake Hits: e-Learning to Rescue

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50 Minutes to Keynote and Quake Hits: e-Learning to Rescue

Seattle, Washington 3:00 PM: It was 11:00 AM this morning and I was in my
hotel room in Seattle, getting ready to present a Keynote Address on
Technology Trends to 1,000 participants at a Direct Marketing Association
Conference. Tweaking my PowerPoint, when all of a sudden the hotel started
to rock and roll. We were having an earthquake. What is the speaker to do?

After the rocking settled and it was clear that the hotel survived without
damage, the question was: Will the Speech Happen? Hundreds of people
leaving Conference Center and reports of falling ceiling tiles and overall
stress. So, one keynoter with no keynote to deliver.

Hmmm. Let the conference organizers know that is what e-Learning was
invented for! So, once I can get out of Seattle, I'll make a 60 minute
streamed version of the speech that I was going to give (with appropriate
new stories) and stream it out to the participants from the DMA.

Now, the next question, is how to get to McDonalds in Chicago for a keynote
about e-Learning tomorrow. Hmmm..

Stranded in Seattle!

Elliott Masie