future of events | Interactive Meeting Technology

Are You Thinking Outside the Room?

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

Posted on 12 Nov 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In hybrid / virtual

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

Nacho Mamas Deep Fried Hybrid Event on A Stick

If Hybrid Events had fun recipe names, then the Event Camp Twin Cities hybrid event recipe would be called Nacho Mamas Deep Fried Hybrid Event On a Stick. Why? Because it sounds unhealthy, irresistible and something that you should try at least once! I imagine it just like the photo below. Why should

Posted on 25 Sep 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In hybrid / virtual

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

New Meetings Podcast Series – Going Digital with Samuel J. Smith

We need to a better job of talking about the benefits, opportunities and challenges of using technology in meetings and events. Mike McAllen and I are taking this challenge to heart. Today, we are launching a new show focused on technology strategy, social media and the latest trends and tools in event

Posted on 18 May 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In Going Digital

Inspiration for Your Shiny New Event App

Over the past few months, I have been collecting smart phone apps that I think are doing "cool" and "innovative" things in my inspiration folder. While I haven't found any "event" app that seems to pull everything together in "just the right way" - I have found several event apps that

Posted on 30 Apr 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In Mobile

Is Your Mingle Stick Poken Attendees in the BeLinker

In his book Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky writes - “If you give them more of a reason to do something, they will do more of it, and if you make it easier to do more of something that they are already inclined to do, they will also do more

Posted on 15 Apr 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In Mobile

After 110 Pages of Tweets is Twitter Worth It?

On March 5, 2010 - I celebrated my first Twitterversary. It came and went without much fanfare as I forgot that it happened. However, I thought it was worth reviewing my progress over the past year. In my first 365 days, I wrote 2,743 tweets - which is about 110 pages

Posted on 5 Apr 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

Game Changer For Small Events: Zerista’s Mobile Community Platform

Did you hear that Zerista launched a new mobile community for events last week? It could be a game changer for small events – giving them access to event technology that was previously too expensive.

This new mobile platform is a mashup of Ning, Eventbrite, Twitter and Foursquare for small groups. Plus, it has a self-service setup AND they are making it free for groups with less than 250 people.

Said another way: Zerista can do schedules, messaging, backchannel, take payments, support checkin, send invites, maps and browse member lists and probably other stuff, too.

Watch the video from the DEMO Conference last week to get an overview:

Posted on 29 Mar 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In Mobile

MTO Summit Chicago: The Wayne’s World For Event Technology

Last Thursday's MTO Summit had the feel of the Saturday Night Live Skit - Wayne’s World. On one hand, we were in the basement of the Chicago O’Hare Hyatt with a stage that looked like it came from Wayne’s mom’s basement in Aurora. On the other hand, the sessions were

Posted on 28 Mar 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In event tech trends

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