Tag Archive: conferences

NASA Is Looking For Signs Of Life…At Your Conference

The National Adult Survival Association (NASA) has decided to send the next generation of land rovers to your annual meeting. These rovers have more robust and hyper-sensitive life detecting systems than the traditional conference evaluation smile sheets.  NASA is looking for signs of life...at your conference. NASA's ...

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Tackle These Four Barriers That Prevent Effective Conference And Meeting Change

When was the last time you introduced some changes in your annual conferences and meetings? Perhaps you rearranged the schedule, mixed things up or set rooms in different layouts. So how comfortable was that change for you? I'll admit that I'm not ...

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Three Critical Keys To Your Annual Meeting Education Success: Context, Recall And Storytelling

When was the last time you ordered something in a restaurant and the wait staff brought you the wrong dish? Go ahead and think about that for a minute. You're probably thinking, "Uh-h, when was the last time that happened? ...

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Are Your Annual Meetings Producing Life-Giving Oxygen Or Life-Draining Experiences?

Oxygen, we can't live without it. We need it to live, breath and function. This colorless, odorless, tasteless gas is the third most abundant element in the universe next to hydrogen and helium. It changes everything it touches. It forms compounds with almost everything it contacts ...

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A Blueprint For Socially Augmented Events: The Seven Stages Recap

On June 15, at the PCMA Education Conference 2010, I saw Scott Klososky present how to use social technologies in the seven stages of event planning.  The title of his presentation was "A Blueprint For Socially Augmented Events."    Scott's presentation was mind boggling, thought-provoking ...

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