Tweet Conference organizers and speakers, they’re coming to your next event. Bigger than the Blob. Mightier than the Undead. Faster than the Twilight Vampires. Here they come as you shake in your boots. Meet your new audiences: Attendee 2.0. They are coming to your next event and like the Blob, have the potential to…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Busted: Ten Conference Adult Learning Myths
Tweet In conference and meeting environments, attendees receive more messages and content from attending six to eight hours of presentations than a typical day of being bombarded by advertising, direct mail, radio and TV. Duplicate that day two or three times, and you have a mind that is flooded with messages and information on excessive…
How To Be Lean, Mean & Green At Your Next Event: Three Green Philosophies To Consider
Tweet “In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences,” R.G. Ingersoll (1833-1899). Environmental initiatives have been in vogue since the 25th Anniversary of Earth Day in 1995. Yet in the past five years, many environmental friendly programs have moved beyond fashion and fad to becoming socially acceptable and the norm. Even…
Fore! Some Master It. Others Teach It. A Speaker Selection Golf Lesson For Meeting Professionals
Tweet In early history, golf was reserved for the royals, played with sticks and pebbles over natural landscapes. During the Industrial Revolution, golf clubs and balls became mass produced and inexpensive enough for more of us to chase the little white ball around a fairway, rough and other hazards. Today, there are millions of golfers…
Radically Relational: The Social Conference
Tweet The Conference As A Distribution Center Typical conferences, events and seminars can all too easily become a distribution center, a place where attendees can come and get stuff and the conference organizers can dump stuff. The attendees receive education, information, new contacts, and swag. The conference organizers secure speakers to dump their presentations, vendors…
