{"id":670584,"date":"2014-03-24T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=670584"},"modified":"2014-03-24T21:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:15:27","slug":"speaker-coaching-with-scott-berkun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-coaching-with-scott-berkun\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Coaching with Scott Berkun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very lucky to be able to offer a wonderful opportunity to WordCamp speakers this year: a speaker coaching session led by <a href=\"http:\/\/scottberkun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Berkun<\/a>.  Scott is a best-selling author and speaker.  In addition to his books, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Wired magazine, Forbes, USA Today, Wired, Fast Company, National Public Radio, The Huffington Post and other media.  He has spoken at hundreds of events &#8211; in fact, he gave the keynote at WordCamp Seattle 2012.  <\/p>\n<p>Among his books are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596801998\/scottberkunco-20\/\">Confessions of a Public Speaker<\/a>, which offers entertaining and practical advice for people who want to speak in public, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com\/dp\/1118660633\">The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work<\/a>, about the year Berkun spent working for Automattic (the company that runs WordPress.com) and how Automattic functions with a 100% distributed workforce.<\/p>\n<p>This is an amazing opportunity for speakers to learn from a veteran speaker and coach.  Speakers of every experience level will learn something valuable from Scott.  We are very grateful to him for offering this opportunity to our speakers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very lucky to be able to offer a wonderful opportunity to WordCamp speakers this year: a speaker coaching session led by Scott Berkun. Scott is a best-selling author and speaker. In addition to his books, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7358376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7358376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682838,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670584\/revisions\/682838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}