Tweet These days, potential attendees need all the help you can give them to justify their participation in your event. Here are three approaches you can take. Associations are pulling out all the stops to attract qualified attendees to register for their conferences. Some are leveraging social media to help (video testimonials, blogs, and tweets),…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
What Pinky And The Brain Have In Common With Conference Learning
Tweet Have you ever watched the cartoon Pinky and The Brain produced by Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. Animation? Genetically-enhanced laboratory mice, Pinky and Brain are caged in the Acme Labs research facility. Brain is egotistical and devious. Pinky is cheerful and dim-witted. Each episode starts with Brain devising a new plan to take over…
Stomaching Long Conference Lectures Is Out! Active Attendee Participation is In!
Tweet 14 Presentation Techniques That Encourage Maximum Learning, Participation And Memory Retention Today, many conference attendees will no longer tolerate the same old lectures, the conference committee’s poorly-planned-everything-for-everyone-panel or sessions that have no real meaning to their work. Younger generations will not endure classes that could have been learned at their desks in 30 minutes…
Eight Conference Presentation Myths That Hamstring Attendees’ Learning
Tweet Most conference organizers see attendees as consumers of the conference’s content and experience. Little thought is given to seeing attendees as active participants in their own learning and experience. Here are eight conference presentation myths that hamstring most attendees’ learning that conference organizers should avoid. Myth 1: There is one single educational approach such as…
Are You Providing A Homogenized Or Personalized Conference Experience?
Tweet Walk into most annual conference sessions and what do you see? What do you hear? You’ll probably hear and see the same thing in each room. One voice talking at a time. A speaker or panelist at the front of the room talking to a group of attendees. The attendees are sitting theater style…
