on the air

this morning i participated in this big webcast for work, where we talked about our new software release to customers from our top enterprise accounts. while it was mostly scripted, it was a live forum talking about the benefits of our new product to our most important customers.

man, am i glad that it’s over.

i had been nervous about this for days, even to the extent of staying up almost all night in order to practice my part. which really wasn’t necessary, as you want it to sound natural and not like you’re reading some sort of preset monologue, but while i was practicing i kept feeling like i was flubbing my lines and stupid repetitive phrases kept coming out of my mouth.

shmickmak!

alas, it all turned out fine. originally i thought it was going to be some crazy web video thing, but it turned out to only be audio and powerpoint slides. we ended up doing this in a conference room set up with computers, audio gear, and big microphones and headsets, so it was just like the old days being on some public affairs show on the radio. not that i had ever been on the non-booth side of that, but at least i can relate to being a talking head on the radio.

it’s all part of their evil plan to raise me up to this new position at work. which just seems like more visibility and more work for me. and really doubly more, since they’re still interviewing people to backfill for my old job. at least they did give me a not insubstantial raise recently.

i do notice that i’ve been talking a lot in double negatives recently.

i don’t think i know what that’s actually about.

Posted at November 10, 2004 9:41 PM