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Ten Meeting Professional Resolutions For Personal And Professional Development

Tweet It’s the start of a new year and most people are thinking about their New Year’s resolutions. Have you made yours yet? Personally, I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I make goals during the entire year. And I set personal commitments as I need them. 10 New Year’s Resolutions To Increase Your Professional Development…

Using Emotional Marketing Value To Create Conference Education Titles That Attract Not Repel

Tweet You’re browsing a conference website. The dates look good. The city is appealing to you. The hotel seems to offer a reasonable rate. The schedule is jam-packed with offerings. So does the conference offer anything of education value? You click the link to the education sessions. There you see a long list of hyperlinked…

Conference Trend: Taste On A Toothpick

Tweet Like moth to the flame, mosquitoes to blood or honey bees to pollen, the mall crowd surrounded the young man. Piranhas Devouring Their Prey They looked like a frenzied group of piranhas, devouring their prey. They were driven by the opportunity for a taste on a toothpick. The chance to sample food. To digest…

Nine Essentials To Keep Your Presentation From Becoming A Corpse

Tweet Presentations are the economy of most conferences and business today. Yet most presentations are boring. A majority of them are just uninteresting. They lack humanness, life, passion and emotional connections. Today, many conference participants feel trapped by a parade of monotonous, dreary, insipid presentations. It doesn’t take long to recognize a corpse. It takes…

The 21st Century Conference Attendee Bill Of Rights

Tweet Here is the heart of why most people attend conferences: learning. Learning about others. Learning new ideas through collaboration and problem solving. Learning what has worked. Learning solutions to our problems. Learning current trends and research to further our careers. Learning is the heartbeat of today’s world. Stop learning and you stop progression, and…