Happy Birthday Naked Conversations
[Israel & Scoble with 1st copy of Naked Conversations--Photo By Buzz Bruggeman]
On Jan. 4, 2006, Scoble and I addressed a group of retail booksellers at CES. The evnt, sponsored by our publisher John Wiley & Sons would be our first of well over 50 talks and media interviews the two of us did together over the last year.
I got to the event earlier than anyone else. When one of the Wiley folk opened the first crate of our books--drop shipped the night before from the printer, I was handed the first book.
It was a far bigger thrill than I had anticipated. Only two groups of people can relate--other authors and new parents. It is really quite overwhelming. I wandered around the downstairs at New York, New York Hotel and just walked into Scoble. I didn't say a word. I just handed him the book. He stared at it for a long moment with a great deal of reverence. He looked at our names on the cover, at our pictures on the back flap. He thumbed through the pages, randomly reading a graph here and there. He sort of hugged it, then handed it back to me.
It was one of the best moments of a great many best moments over the last year. Later, our pal Buzz Bruggeman, who played a key role in bringing Scoble and I together caught up with us and took this photo. It remains one of my favorites, although it doesn't quite caych the joy that was in our hearts.
Man, you guys look much young now; thinner, more debonaire, and intelligent. Fame has its virtues!
(note to self: comments are supposed to add value, and self, remember you are not a comedian for obvious reasons).
May your next book break new ground and sales!
Posted by: Ted Demopoulos | January 03, 2007 at 09:58 PM
Ted,
You failed to mention that we are both also taller and more verile.
Posted by: shel israel | January 03, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Good job and I hope I'll have the opportunity to read your next book quicker than this one. I just started it one week ago and it was just like a sunshine in my troubled brain of marketer.
Posted by: diaby mohamed | January 04, 2007 at 04:25 AM
Shel,
Naked Conversations opened my eyes to the potential of blogging to reach beyond our day to day geographic boundaries to find people who share our interests and are willing to give generously to others.
Now I'm looking forward to Global Neighbourhoods!
Posted by: Joseph Thornley | January 04, 2007 at 06:25 AM
Happy Birthday indeed!
Posted by: Jim Minatel | January 04, 2007 at 06:30 AM
What a great picture! I had forgotten about how much fun it was to take it!
Happy Anniversary!
Posted by: Buzz Bruggeman | January 04, 2007 at 10:56 PM
Happy Birthday. Many returns of the day. No returns of the book.
(I had a copy on the shelf when Robert was at my house last summer. But I would not ask him to sign it until I got your signature first.)
Posted by: Michael Markman | January 08, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Hi Guys
Great book, well done. Just read it over the couple of weeks back and have just joined the blogsphere. (http://rumi.typepad.com/rumi_shivaz). Have just left a post on this site about what you guys have in common with The Eagles !!!.
Rumi
Posted by: Rumi Shivaz | January 13, 2007 at 10:20 PM