Review: Seth Godin in the Salt Palace

• Posted by Steve Spencer

Article posted on May 25

For those of you who could not attend, the turnout for Seth Godin at the Salt Palace last night was a HUGE success. Kudos go out to the whole wordmob team for all they did (I’ll put a full list of folks up later this afternoon.) Special thanks go out to Phil Burns, for having the guts to put this whole thing together, and to Matthew at Voxpop who was constantly turning around top-notch creative for the event under impossible timelines.

As for the event itself, I really enjoyed hearing Seth. For those of you who have children, you’ll know that one of the most amazing moments of being a parent is when your toddler looks up and makes an observation. There are times, when these observations are so astute… so stunning in their ability to cut through all of the crap that blinds us all every day, that all you can do is gape open-mouthed for a moment and wonder how all of us, other than your toddler, could be so stupid.

Listening to Seth is kinda like that. When he is asked questions, you sit eagerly with pen in hand for an answer that you are sure is going to be as insightful, and complex as the theory of relativity. But instead he throws out the business equivalent of the song “just put one foot in front of the other” that they used to sing in that old Christmas special (the one where they teach the winter wizard to walk.) You sit there open mouthed, and realize that it really is just that plain, just that simple.

Very nice event. I look forward to reading the book.

For some good pictures and Video of the event, Check out this post by Phil.

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