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Which Would You Choose: Four Hours of PowerPoint or an Adventure?

Let’s pretend that you are putting together an All-Employee Meeting. What do you think your attendees will prefer: 4 hours of PowerPoint or an Adventure? I would go with adventure 10 times out of 10. Boston Scientific chose adventure, too. They skipped the General Session that would have stuffed 5,000 employees into

Posted on 2 Feb 2012
By Samuel J Smith
In interaction design

Creating Mad Event Science

Each year 3M spends over a billion dollars on R&D. One Billion dollars! They have thousands of people working on solutions to new problems, refining existing products and just creating mad science. Event Camp Twin Cities is an innovation lab for the meetings industry. A tiny one. The event is about

Posted on 13 Jul 2011
By Samuel J Smith
In other

Social Media in Events: Beyond Facebook & Twitter

Does it seem like every post about social media in events talks about Facebook and Twitter? Do you feel like your creativity is being constrained, because so many people are talking about the same 3-4 solutions?

I do.

In a followup to my last post (Real World Likes – The Next Big Thing in Social Media in Events), I want to show you two fresh examples that will help you open your mind to new possibilities for social media at your events.

New York City Marathon 2010

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See how Asics used videos and location based tracking to help family and friends at home cheer on their marathoners. This is really cool stuff. Fans record videos and leave messages for runners. Then as the runners go past a checkpoint, the videos and messages play on large screens.

Posted on 25 Apr 2011
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

Real World Likes – the Next Big Thing for Social Media in Events

What happens if I think that the ice sculpture and chocolate fountain at your event are off the hook? How do I tell my facebook friends and my twitter buddies? I have to pull out my phone, take a picture, enter a short message and upload it. I miss valuable networking

Posted on 18 Apr 2011
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

Meeting Innovation: PCMA’s Learning Lounge

What comes to mind when someone says - Learning Lounge? For me, I think of a sterile library-like-space with few people, little noise and empty chairs. I'm extremely pleased to tell you that PCMA's Learning Lounge was anything but. It was noisy, engaging and full of life! This experimental idea gave us a glimpse

Posted on 16 Jan 2011
By Samuel J Smith
In interaction design

Are You Using Events To Get Your Mojo Back?

Let’s face it. The past two years have been rough on most North American and European corporations. With the budget cuts, layoffs and bad press, it isn’t hard to figure out why everyone around the office is in a sour mood. All of this negativity can make the daily grind

Posted on 25 Oct 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In interaction design

Naming Events in a Digital World

As we start to bring more virtual and hybrid elements into our events – should we reconsider how we name these events? In the past, we might have given an event a local or regional name. This name helped the event connect and identify with the city, state, or region where

Posted on 22 Sep 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In other

The Future of Meetings: Are You My Mother?

The Future of Meetings was a hot topic at the MPI World Education Conference this week. While there was a lot of discussion around the topic - the answer was not so easy to pin down. At times, I felt like the baby bird searching for his mother in

Posted on 27 Jul 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In other

Are You Ready for Social Media in the New Event World?

A few months ago, I was asked to contribute to a research report on Social Media in events. The researcher was looking for insight on social media in events across several different dimensions - technology tools, event strategy, event design, co-creation, collaboration, etc. Yesterday, that report was finally published by Echelon

Posted on 16 Jun 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

The Twitter Experiment in Face-to-Face Learning

We can learn a lot about using technology in events from watching what is happening in college classrooms. This video called The Twitter Experiment from the University of Texas provides a good case study of the role that Twitter can play in Face-to-Face learning. Take a few minutes and watch it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8] How

Posted on 2 Jun 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In interaction ideas

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New York City Marathon 2010