Schmoozing That Puts You in the Public Eye n 167 Chapter 13 Schmoozing That Puts You in the Public Eye A nne Boe of Encinitas, California, took the idea of being her own best press agent farther than most. Everywhere she went--meetings, airports, parties--she introduced herself to strangers and invited them to do the same. As a way to create unpredictable opportunities, it worked. During a speaking engagement once in Washington, D.C., she left the banquet to get something from her room upstairs and found herself in an elevator with a man she'd never met. "I wasn't going to waste 10 floors," she remembered, "so very quickly I said my usual, `Hi, I'm Anne Boe. I do career management and networking.