Last week I attended two conferences simultaneously, one in Cancun, Mexico (MPI Meet Different) and the other in Santa Clara, Ca. (Virtual Edge Summit) Such is the life of a virtual traveler! While I certainly missed the face2face interaction at both events, the experience of navigating two conferences at the same time was [...]
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 Monday,January 18th, 2010Are you doing business with someone you refer to as a “partner?” I hear business people use this word in conversation frequently, declaring they are working as partners, or in partnership with one organization or another. What does the word “partner”mean to you? I researched, from some online resources, definitions for the meaning of [...] Print This Post
Friday,January 8th, 2010This article was my contribution to the recent Ebook, “Social Media For Events 2010: 7 Event Experts Weigh In On The Year Ahead Of Us,” created by Lara McCulloch-Carter. In 1982 a Grammy Award winning country/southern rock band, called “Alabama,” released a new song that, when heard nowadays, seems almost prophetic. Here’s a short [...] Print This Post
Wednesday,November 25th, 2009Yesterday I published Part One of a series of posts generated by an experimental use of Google Wave. For the details of the overall project please click here to read the article. To recap, I developed five “hot topic” business questions and invited several colleagues to respond to them in a Google Wave [...] Print This Post
Tuesday,November 24th, 2009Earlier this week I published an article introducing a new project idea of mine; to write a blog post utilizing Google Wave as the creation platform. For those of you not aware Google Wave is a new web 2.0 application still in its beta testing phase. Its greatest strength, initially, seems to be [...] Print This Post
Saturday,November 21st, 2009Have you reached into the hearts and minds of your customers? This is an essential component of becoming customer centric … especially if the products and services you offer are complex and supported by customer interfaces spread out among various units within your organization. (From Customer Advocacy, a whitepaper published by Customer Centricity, [...] Print This Post
Sunday,November 8th, 2009Are you a “glass half full” or a “glass half empty” person? That overused cliché is most likely irritating to some of you. Reality is this idiomatic expression is a useful litmus test to understand optimism vs. pessimism. How a person views the world and his/her experiences most certainly drives his/her response to [...] Print This Post
Saturday,October 31st, 2009I remember, as a young boy scout, my first canoe trip on a real river. Our troop’s destination was the lower section of the mighty St. Croix River which forms 125 miles of the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin. The St. Croix, while a popular recreational river, is very wild and scenic. Flowing through [...] Print This Post
Tuesday,October 27th, 2009In August I published an article entitled “Hybrid Events — Whats All the Buzz?” Interestingly that article generated more interest than any I have written since I started this blog in April. The concept of incorporating Hybrid events into conferences is gaining a lot of traction across the Meetings and Events industry. In the [...] Print This Post
Sunday,September 27th, 2009Recently I had an interesting conversation with my friend and client Lisa Thornton, of ACUTA (Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education). Our discussion was centered on the impact of the current economy on conference attendance. Like many organizations, ACUTA has experienced a measurable decline in attendance at each of their (4) [...] |
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