Tweet Attendees spend about 24 hours physically present in a three-day conference experience. (About eight hours a day, outside of sleep and night activities.) Students who attend school from kindergarten through high school typically spend more than 13,000 hours learning from teachers. 24 hours seem minimal as compared to 13,000 hours. Yet, most conference participants…
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Mission Possible: Engaging Event Attention
Tweet Attention is a payment of the brain’s resources. It requires that we adjust, engage and sustain each of our nine brain areas involved in attention. We must also exclude, suppress or ignore external and internal distracters. Ultimately, we need a highly disciplined internal state and the right brain chemical balance to maintain attention. This…
Every 60 Seconds These 21 Things Happen On the Internet
Tweet Infographic by- Shanghai Web Designers The World Wide Web is growing rapidly. On average, 6 billion pages are added to the World Wide Web every day. Take a look at Go-Gulf‘s infographic about what happens on the web every 60 seconds. Did You Know? Did you know that every 60 seconds: The search engine…
Transitioning From The Experience Economy To The Social Economy
Tweet To paraphrase President Bill Clinton, “It’s the Social Economy, stupid!” The McCann Worldgroup says that we have moved from the Experience Economy to the Social Economy. Their research indicates that the current economy is moving into a new phase where people seek to define themselves by their ability to connect, share and communicate. Consumers…
Why Your Event Needs To Increase Its Social Media Monitoring
Tweet The majority of conference and event organizers are not monitoring social media. Are you? According to a 2011 Social Media & Events Report released by amaindo, more than 60% of event organizers do not use social media to listen, connect and collect data about their customers and potential customers. Event organizers are overlooking a…
