By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:02:54 +0000

Mary, I think you are doing a great job of teasing our some of the thgins I was senseing in my love/withdraw ambiguity. I think there may also be some of our habits that make the ‘self identification’ thing harder. Some of us are very comfortable putting ourselves forth. Others are not. This may be one reason why some great speakers never hit the scene. The one that is probably most bothering me you nailed head on: those self identifying who are known, established speakers (in fact how fast some of them put themselves on the list). Do they perceive themselves as new voices? Less known? (always a possibility – I think sometimes we don’t know our own reputations)By having A listers there, there is that danger of conference organizers going with whom they know. This is a very realistic way to choose, but it defeats the goal. So it seems that there is an adjunct to this list. First, you have the list where people do self describe and identify (I totally agree with your point there).Second, there is a way to encourage conference organizers to a) take a risk and b) be able to critically evaluate a new voice for suitability.So how do we do the latter? Sample podcasts? Testemonials (which you have already built in.) This is a dance where both partners have to know the steps. So far we have a bit more than half of the story. Maybe we need the insights of some conference organizers?Finally, I hope you take my sense of ambiguity as a reflection mostly on how I see myself, not a critique of what you are doing. I think the list is a great idea, the right step and important. I think it takes all of us to figure out how it does not fall back into the same old, same old because of the discomfort of folks like me. 🙂 Discomfort is a sign for me that there is something to be learned!

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