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    Saturday,March 6th, 2010

    Five Learning Lessons of Producing a Webinar

    Its amazing, in this new world of robust online technology, just how much there is to learn.  Over the past  year, I have personally spent quite a bit of time investigating the “ins and outs” of creating and producing online events, such as webinars and webcasts.  It has been a rich educational experience.

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    Sunday,February 28th, 2010

    Virtual Attendees are Real People Too! - 5 Mistakes with Hybrid Events

    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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    Saturday,February 27th, 2010

    The Robotic Keynote Session - How to Put Your Audience to Sleep!

    Have you ever attended a Conference Keynote Session, and watched a speaker read their entire presentation from their laptop computer?  Needless to say, it is not an energetic, or engaging experience! I’m thinking there must be some truth to the idea that, before God invented Tylenol PM, there was the “Robotic” Keynote Presentation.  [...]

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    Monday,February 22nd, 2010

    Meet Different - Exploiting Chaos with Disruptive Innovation!

    Well, 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 [...]

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    Saturday,February 20th, 2010

    Five Steps to Creating a Rich Attendee Learning Environment

    I had a lunch/meeting with two Experient colleagues this past week and our conversation really was terrific.  At some point our discussion turned towards social media. (Imagine that)  One of my colleagues referred to my enthusiasm for social media.

    Admittedly, I do have a passion for technology.  In fact, I am fascinated by it.  [...]

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    Thursday,February 4th, 2010

    Event Camp Here I Come!

    It 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, [...]

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    Wednesday,February 3rd, 2010

    Event Camp 2010 –Two Days Till Showtime!

    I 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 [...]

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    Sunday,December 13th, 2009

    Twitter For Presentations — Channel Or Context, Whats Appropriate??

    Recently there was a terrific discussion about “Integrating Twitter Into Presentations” initiated on a Google Wave by Lara McCulloch-Carter.  Fourteen  (14) event professionals were invited to contribute their perspectives on the subject, including myself.  Lara’s intent was to write a magazine article for an Event Industry periodical from the responses posted on the [...]

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    Wednesday,November 25th, 2009

    A Collaborative Blog Post: Part Two — Event Pro’s What’s Priority Focus in 2010?

    Yesterday 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 [...]

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    Tuesday,November 24th, 2009

    A Collaborative Blog Post: Part One — Successes of 2009!

    Earlier 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 [...]