Monthly Archives: February 2011

Creating The iEvent: Technology Tools For Audience Engagement

Tweet Today’s Audiences Want High Tech With High Touch Today’s conference and event audiences are hungry to be engaged and involved in the experience. They want to participate in a variety of ways. They are willing to try new things. 95% of the attendees at my presentation at Event Solutions Idea Factory said technology changes…

Giving Your Conference Content Handles

Tweet Presentations are a way to move information from my head into your actions. If I do it right, I give my ideas handles, so that you can run with what I’ve started and make it your own. ~ Chris Brogan Do you design your conference content so that it has handles? Have you ever…

The Conference Backchannel: Bonus Or Bomb?

Tweet When I say Twitter backchannel, what’s your first reaction?  Seriously, what’s the first thing that you think? Huh? What’s that? OMG, that’s a way to destroy the speaker’s presentation! We can’t do that. What if someone has something negative or childish to say about the presenter or the event and it gets displayed for…

Content Reduction: Making Your Presentation Thick To Stick

Tweet Do you want to have a rich finish to your presentation that fills the participants’ mind with an intense flavor that lingers? Like a fine wine reduction, you need to find a way to reduce excess information while intensifying and thickening the flavor of critical content. You need a content reduction. What Is Reduction?…

10 Key Gaming Elements To Increase Conference Engagement

Tweet Online games, MMOs, are changing the way people work, meet and interact. What Are MMOs? Multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs, MMOGs or MMOs) are sophisticated games with immersive environments. They support hundreds to thousands of players simultaneously. Played on the Internet, they feature a virtual world, a story with goals, avatars and guilds. Players…