What would happen if you transformed your event with a game? Would it inspire creativity, problem solving and innovation among your attendees? Would it energize everyone? Or would it be so stressful that it wouldn't be worth the effort?
This week, the Green Meetings Industry Council used gaming to transform their
Next week's Green Meetings Industry Council Annual conference (Feb 20-23, 2011) sounds like it will be really cool. They are complimenting the traditional lecture model with an interactive and collaborative games model. From what I understand - the idea is to send attendees home prepared to think strategically about building
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
While natural disasters throw an “unplanned” monkey wrench into the normal rhythm of our events, they don’t have to stop us from meeting.
I have been impressed with the role that event technology and social media have played in events during natural disasters like snowstorms, volcanos and floods this year. Some inspiring
Bruce MacMillan wants MPI members to look at their meetings and events in a new way. He wants them to look at new ways of connecting people to ideas and content. He wants them to start thinking outside the room.
That’s the message that he brought to MPI Members from Minnesota
What comes to mind when someone mentions the TED Conferences?
Do you think about a specific presentation - like Bill Gates presentation on malaria?
You know the one - where he opened up a jar of mosquitos in the auditorium. Then he said - malaria doesn't need to be a poor person’s
Ray Hansen and I traveled to Madison, Wisconsin to record a live webcast/webinar on our Lessons Learned in Building the Hybrid Event at Event Camp Twin Cities. Here are the slides and link to the video archive from that presentation.
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(Watch) This presentation starts with a photo slideshow from
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
The Lift Conference is perceived to be a very forward thinking and innovative conference. Here is an interesting analysis from the May 2010 event that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It will be interesting to see how they incorporate the results of this analysis into their events in 2011.
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Are you overwhelmed by colleagues wanting to add social media tools to your events? Are you wondering where to start?
Start by listening this Podcast with David Rich, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing & Worldwide at George P. Johnson. David offers healthy insights and practical advice for event professionals that are
