Susan RoAne is a public speaker who lectures on the social aspects of networking. She specializes in things like socializing in groups at trade shows or conferences, and dealing with face to face situations in business and social settings. Many people have business acumen but underdeveloped social skills which can be just as important when networking to build clients or contacts on the corporate ladder.

Of all Susan RoAne's writings, the most recommended is "How to Create Your Own Luck : The You Never Know Approach to Networking, Taking Chances, and Opening Yourself to Opportunity". I'm sure it would be much better to see Susan RoAne speak in person, as her strengths lay in her social skills and public speaking, which is much harder to communicate in a book.

Overall I think Susan RoAne would be good for someone who's shy and wants to work on their skills. Even better would be if you have a company meeting coming up and need a charismatic "people person" to give a talk to ease the drudgery of other, more boring speakers. Her social skills would make for a good presentation for management or sales teams, or any corporate employee that has to travel and schmooze with strangers a lot.

I don't understand why she hasn't made a DVD series of some of her best speeches, since the social theme of her material would lend well to a series. People could watch at home or in a training series, sold to corporations, for employees to go through along with orientation classes. Putting social networking and public speaking advice into book form just doesn't play to her strengths. I'd like to see and hear her techniques for working a crowd on video instead, and if she got permission to record her performances for clients it would be an easy way to produce them.