Tweet You’ve spent hours surfing websites, reading bios, evaluating presentation descriptions and viewing speaker online videos. You’ve finally reached a decision and secured a professional speaker to keynote your opening general session. You feel relief, accomplishment and maybe even exhaustion. Then you wonder, “Did I ask the speaker to do everything possible? Are there other…
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How Conferences Can Find Their Future
Tweet For most of us, the future is our past. So many people try to create a new future by modifying their past. We insist on doing more of the same that we’ve always done. We cross our fingers and hope it results in a new future. It won’t. Nostalgia Is Good For A Rose…
The Top Traits Of Rock Star Event Professionals
Tweet Rock stars! Just those two words create images in our minds of fun, money and pleasure. Rock stars get paid to bang on drums, strum guitars and scream into microphones. They get to do what they love daily. Traits Of The Rock Star Event Professional So what does it take to be a rock…
Conferences Need Dynamic Planning That Relies On Insight
Tweet Your conference planning process needs a dynamic strategy that relies on insight, not call for proposals and scheduling of speakers. Most meeting professionals who devote their time to the development of detailed conference schedules are destined to eventual disappointment. Why? Because the focus is entirely on the structural framework for the meeting. Until the…
Social Isolation In The Midst Of A Crowded General Session
Tweet Rows and rows of chairs in straight lines face the stage. Aisles separate sections of chairs so people can navigate the room. The large ballroom easily seats 5,000 people theater style. The air is cold and stale. The lights dim. A dancing image appears on the front screens and the delay screens hanging from…
