Roy Ernest (1/25/2011)
Grant, Here is the issue. You can be really famous but there are still 75% of the people who will be reading the abstract that does not know you. Those people who are on twitter, read blogs regularly will know who you are, but others wont.Therefore I agree with comment that this is a bit too short. But with all due respect to Andy, I do not agree that he can get away with it because he is who he is.
You're right. I was thinking along the lines of he can use that to submit and get accepted because he's who he is. I don't think it's that helpful to the attendee.
Do this next time you're in a relatively big user group meeting with 20 or more people. Ask them how many know my name, Andy's name, Paul Randal's name... you'll be surprised at the response. I sure was.
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