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 Friday,March 5th, 2010Earlier today PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) hosted a webinar entitled “Engaging Attendees Today: How to Combine Virtual and Face-to-Face Meetings.“ As you may know this is a hot topic in the events business in 2010, and there were nearly 200ppl in attendance at the webinar. I facilitated the session, with fellow panelists Jeff [...] Print This Post
Sunday,February 28th, 2010Last 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 [...] Print This Post
Friday,February 26th, 2010About 10 days ago, I wrote an article which, in part, was critical of MPI (Meeting Professionals International) for deciding to charge “non-members” a hefty fee for their Virtual Access Pass (VAP) to the 2010 Meet Different Conference. (occurred in Cancun, Mexico this week) Learning can be Painful!! Putting aside my disagreement with MPI’s [...] Print This Post
Monday,February 22nd, 2010Well, the MPI (Meeting Professionals International) 2010 Meet Different Conference kicked off in great style on Sunday morning, with it’s opening General Session, featuring Jeremy Gutsche, Innovation expert & author of the popular book, “Exploiting Chaos.” For context, MPI’s event is taking place in Cancun, Mexico through Tuesday. Unfortunately I am not attending [...] Print This Post
Monday,February 8th, 2010When I was in grade school, I was very active in an organization called “Indian guides.” I learned about the concepts of fellowship, camping and community-building activities. (including craft-making and community service) In the program we earned patches, for achieving various goals, such as “completing a nature hike,” or participating together in some [...] Print This Post
Thursday,February 4th, 2010It is hard to believe the big day has finally arrived. Tomorrow morning I board a flight at O’Hare to New York City. I am headed to Event Camp 2010. As I mentioned in yesterday’s article this “Unconference” will feature some of the finest “outside of the box” thought leaders in the events business, [...] Print This Post
Wednesday,February 3rd, 2010I am really fired up about this weekend’s (Saturday, 2/6) Event Camp 2010 at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City. An intimate group, nearly 50 people, are registered to attend this cutting edge event. While the attendance numbers are not huge the quality of participants is amazing. For those of you familiar [...] Print This Post
Monday,February 1st, 2010I read an article today written by one of my online colleagues that was very timely. Lara McCulloch-Carter, in her Blog post “Ten Creative Crowdsourcing Ideas For Event Planners,“ offers some great insight into best practices, for leveraging the collective knowledge and creativity of your event audience. As Lara’s article stated, according to Wikipedia [...] Print This Post
Sunday,January 17th, 2010I have frequenetly discussed, in my blog articles, a Twitter Hashtag group called #Eventprofs. Without a doubt this group has been the center of my social media attention over the past year. Several members of this community, including myself, are collaborating on a project to produce an “Event Camp” for Event Professionals. This cutting-edge [...] Print This Post
Friday,January 15th, 2010I have met some extraordinary people online in the first year of my social media journey. Through these new connections I have learned the power of collaboration, and the magic of peer-to-peer learning. I have discovered a whole new world of interaction, enriched by a uniquely special network of Like-minded professionals. Using tools such [...] |
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