Category Archives: Education

Eight Tips To Encourage Participation, Intimacy, Community In Your Conferences And Events

When was the last time you visited a museum? Nina Simon's Complicity, Intimacy, Community post about fostering personal relationships with visitors in small and large spaces brought back a flood of memories of ...

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Are We Ready For Annual Conferences In Perpetual Beta To Improve Attendee Experiences?

Change is the constant today. What would happen if conference organizers released information about their annual event and called it a perpetual beta version? What if a specific number of presentations were not identified and instead were labeled beta and the organizers asked attendees to help ...

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Improving The Annual Meeting Experience By Strolling Down [Semantic] Memory Lane

You've got 15 minutes to dash into your favorite hardware store and purchase some finishing nails for a project. You know exactly where they are as you've walked passed them many times. As you enter the store a sense of dread overwhelms you. The management has rearranged the products and aisles. You look up and sigh ...

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Making Meaningful Meeting Memories: Using The Five Memory Lanes

Have you ever lost your keys? Your wallet? Your cell phone? Your favorite pen? I have. Well, I didn't really lose them. I just forgot where I put them. I have a ritual of walking into my house and always placing my keys, wallet, favorite pen and ...

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Designing Next Generation Conference Education Sessions

On May 11, 2010, I presented a Webinar for KRM Information on Designing Next Generation Conference Education Sessions: Creating an Environment for Informal and Formal Learning in a Digital Age. Update May 13, 2010: Listen to the free recording of the sixty-minute presentation. As promised, here are the slides from the presentation. Enjoy.

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