Lost in translation
Things to do if you’re organising a big conference and your keynote speaker is coming from overseas, number one: 
Organise a visa. Why not ask the organisers of newspapers’ Caxton Awards how?
Or perhaps not.
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Hey Tim, the URL is not working.
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Hey, Tim, Organise is spelt wrong in this post…
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Ta, Rog & Tom. Fixed…
So JWT.
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Brilliant: how to turn opportunity into, ahem, crisis.
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Blaming the speaker is disgraceful. If you can’t actually organise a VISA as a conference or festival organiser, you’re not worth your pay.
In fact, Mr Olmos would have needed to liaise closely with Caxton’s as the presenting agency in any case, so I can hardly see how it is his fault
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I spoke at a conference in Brisbane a year or two ago and will have great reluctance to do so again. Talk about being treated like a commodity and a money making machine for the conference organisers.
I gave constructive, yet pointed feedback to the company afterwards but never heard from them. So, when they rang me last week to pick my brains, I gave them what for and told them exactly what I thought of the last conference when I was asked. I was greeted with stunned silence.
So, yes, Ben Eltham, I agree that the conference organisor should have, at least, checked that the speaker was organised.
Wonder if they gave refunds of some type to the attendees? Want a bet?
Simon….
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