Tag Archive: meetings as connections

The Extreme Makeover: Conference Edition

Keep the tissues box handy because the tears may flow. And prepare to cover your ears when Ty Pennington belts out that infamous phrase, "Move That Bus!" What often keeps many viewers riveted to the weekly show The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is the heart wrenching family story. One filled with anguish and great sorrow about local ...

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Meetings And Events As Systems Thinking: The Community Ecosystem

Recently I wrote Meetings And Events As Systems Thinking: The Contact Sport. I talked about viewing each meeting or event within the larger context of a system using the analogy of a sports season. Here’s another way to think about your annual conference, event or meeting: part of a community ecosystem. An ecosystem (or ecological system) is ...

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Meetings And Events As Systems Thinking: The Contact Sport

One of my favorite bloggers, Valeria Maltoni, has an interesting article on Marketing As Systems Thinking. Valeria says social media and relationships are contact sports. [caption id="attachment_1084" align="aligncenter" width="509" caption="If social media and relationships are contact sports, then conferences, meetings and events are the athletic fields, gymnasiums and playgrounds for player-to-player and player-to-object ...

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