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    Monday,August 31st, 2009

    Some Humor to Start Your Monday!!!

    Most folks following this blog know my articles are usually focused on somewhat serious topics. Well, this morning I had an inspiration … at least once a week I am going to post something humorous, or light-hearted.

    Today’s post comes to you thanks to my friend Jeff Sacks. My hope is these [...]

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    Sunday,August 30th, 2009

    Giving Back –Community Service at Its Best!

    Earlier in August I participated in a community service project with my colleagues at Experient here in Chicago.  For details of the event please read the recap article on the Experient e4 Blog.  Here is the video recap I created in the fantastic web tool, Animoto.  Hope you enjoy!

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    Friday,August 28th, 2009

    Twitter Chats — Should They Have a Voice?

    A common perception emerging in the business world these days is the notion business people must be receptive to experimenting with new business methodologies, concepts & technologies.  In a rapidly changing world, with a highly competitive business environment and customers with dynamic needs I agree wholeheartedly.

    Since March, I have been actively participating in [...]

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    Tuesday,August 25th, 2009

    A Rich Virtual Experience

    Mike McCurry’s recent Hybrid Events post sparked an interesting exchange about the virtual versus face-to-face meeting experience. Mike asked me to write a guest post on his blog to add some substance to my pithy comments.

    Jay Smethurst

    The virtual side of hybrid meetings offers us a tremendous opportunity. Will virtual meetings completely replace [...]

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    Sunday,August 23rd, 2009

    The “Collaborative” Blog — Crowdsourcing At Its Best!

    Back in July I decided to experiment with an idea… to write a blog recapping an event I did not attend.  A further twist to this project was to create the article purely from tweets posted on the event’s Live Twitter stream.  Sounds like an interesting challenge?  Well, it certainly was ……

    The event [...]

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    Saturday,August 22nd, 2009

    Hybrid Events — Whats All the Buzz?

    There has been a lot of discussion in the business world lately about a relatively new genre of events, “hybrid meetings.”

    Briefly, the term “Hybrid” refers to an event containing both “Live” and “virtual” components working together.  In Wikipedia, the term “hybrid” is defined as “the combination of two or more different things, aimed [...]

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    Monday,August 17th, 2009

    ASAE Reflections — “Most Valuable Tweets 140 Characters at a Time”

    Day Two (Monday) of ASAE ‘09 was action packed beginning with Charlene Li’s presentation in the morning and continuing with Learning Labs and Thought Leader Sessions throughout the remainder of the day.  As I mentioned in Sunday’s blog post, I am not physically attending ASAE, but am participating as a virtual attendee.  My [...]

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    Sunday,August 16th, 2009

    Building Your Organization for the Future — ASAE ‘09

    Well, ASAE kicked off it’s 2009 Annual Meeting & Exposition in style this morning with a Keynote presentation by Gary Hamel, highly touted author of the successful book, ” The Future of Management.”   The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has [...]

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    Friday,August 14th, 2009

    Life of a Virtual Attendee … What’s in it for Me?

    In our company, Experient, we have a large account management team so our approach to membership within industry organizations such as ASAE, IAEE, PCMA, MPI, etc. is to divide the coverage.  Experient encourages us to be a member of one organization, and as long as we remain active they support it.  So how [...]

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    Wednesday,August 12th, 2009

    The New Business Culture!

    Without question a transformation is taking place in the business world. A new evolving business culture is emerging… a collaborative environment, where building and maintaining relationships is the focus.

    Last week I attended Experient’s annual e4 Conference, in Washington DC.  To provide some quick background e4 is Experient’s customer conference, held annually, whose [...]