Re: [AGA-mcm] video

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Well, let's just tell folks, don't be shy, he likes to talk
and Tomoko is a very able translator :-)

It can be done before the talks on Fri.

sh


--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:

> Well, we can ask him if he minds some scheduled "photo
> ops" but I'm sure he
> doesn't... He arranged one himself the last time he was
> here, and had Nozomi
> taking his picture with everyone.<g>
> 
> As far as the 10 minutes of flash-popping at the
> beginning of his talks,
> we've just got to tell people they can't do that.  You
> couldn't see the
> slides.  Again, if we want to let people have their 30
> seconds of flashes to
> get him at the podium, fine.  But then they have to put
> them away until
> after the talk.  It was worse than cell phones.<g>
> 
> Another thing that happened in Chattanooga that we have
> to work to avoid is
> that once the convention officially started, people who
> didn't know him were
> very reluctant to approach him casually and just talk. 
> We organizers were
> purposely holding back to avoid monopolizing his time,
> since we had had a
> chance to spend time with him before the convention.  But
> other people were,
> I guess, too shy to just go up and start a conversation. 
> Tomoko is very
> capable of handling the translation of a chatty
> conversation, and Amano is
> actually very approachable.
> 
> There were times during the reception and other
> unstructured events when he,
> Tomoko and Nozomi were sitting all alone.  We want to try
> to avoid that.
> Obviously we can't write this out in the program, but
> those of us on the
> management side of things have to do our best to
> encourage people to go sit
> and talk with him.  Otherwise the poor man will be
> monopolized by Peter
> again and he may NEVER come back!<g>
> 
> Karen
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] video
> 
> 
> > Should we ask Amano what he prefers?
> > sh
> > --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> >
> > > What about a couple of scheduled "Amano photo ops"
> where
> > > people can snap to
> > > their heart's content for 5 minutes?
> > >
> >
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