Tag Archive: participatory learning

The One Technology Tool Most Associations And Conferences Need Today

Today's networked individuals have shaped the Internet into something especially hospitable to an emerging class of citizens - the participatory class. The Internet pioneers built into its structure, organization, model of governance and sustainability, the potential for creation, ...

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How Participatory Cultures Are Changing Conferences, Events And Associations

Roughly two-thirds of adult Internet users have created content and media for the web. The number of adults who use the Internet to broadcast or narrowcast to several people or more has gone from ...

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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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What If Association Meetings Became Open Source? 10 Tips For Planning A Living Conference

What if your professional association offered an open source meeting? What if association leaders redesigned the organization so that the focus was on social systems and morphing into Association 2.0? What if conference planners decided to adopt underlying principles of Web 2.0 to create Conference 2.0? What if your professional association embraced the following concept: “We ...

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