All fair criticisms. I am learning how to promote myself in industry, and I'm not scared to take some risks. I understand how this can lead to gaffes and can be

All fair criticisms. I am learning how to promote myself in industry, and I'm not scared to take some risks. I understand how this can lead to gaffes and can be construed as gauche. Gimme some time to work on it. Regarding asking viewers to: "Tweet this". In the speaker room, I heard people talking about how you have to givepeople tweetable sound-bites. I put "Tweet this" images on some slides. It was an experiment and it wasn't well-received. I guess I learned something. Regarding asking people to rate my talk: I learned from my talk that people won't tweet stuff simply because you ask them. Similarly, I think if people disliked my talk then I would have gotten a low rating. Lastly, I appreciate your criticisms. I feel bad that you think that voicing them will cause you problems on m-o. This is not the case. I'm trying to learn something here, and I wouldn't be able to put myself out there if I were super thin-skinned.