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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

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

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

iPad: It Just Works…But Will It Work For Events?

Today, Steve Jobs announced Apple’s latest product the iPad. For most of us “shiny object people” this was a much anticipated announcement. Why? Well - Apple products have been known to change the way that we interact with technology and experience life. Look at the iPhone, the iTouch, the itunes store and

Posted on 27 Jan 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In event tech trends

2010 Event Technology Shopping List Presentation

Here is the video from my 2010 Event Technology Shopping list presentation with Ruud Janssen at EIBTM on 1 December 2009. For those of you stuck outside of the room on Tuesday, I am sorry that you were not able to attend live. Hopefully, this video is an acceptable substitute. To set

Posted on 4 Dec 2009
By Samuel J Smith
In event tech trends

Worlds Are Colliding to Create New Opportunities for Events

Yesterday, my colleague Ruud Janssen and I delivered a presentation called the 2010 Event Technology Shopping List at EIBTM. I will post the slides and video soon. But, first I wanted to share some of the thinking that was at the heart of our work. Worlds Are Colliding The digital world

Posted on 2 Dec 2009
By Samuel J Smith
In event tech trends, strategy

It’s Halloween: Are Your Events Haunted by the Blackberry Prayer?

You know the blackberry prayer. It’s that pose that attendees adopt when they stuff their faces into their blackberry devices (or iphones) during the keynote address or breakout sessions. You know - at the exact moment that they should be listening. For some speakers and event organizers this can be embarrassing

Posted on 30 Oct 2009
By Samuel J Smith
In interaction ideas, Mobile

Announcing 2010 Event Technology Shopping List

With hundreds of new event technologies hitting the global events market each year, it can be maddening to figure out where to start and what to use. To help you, my colleague Ruud Janssen and I have developed an event technology shopping list. On Tuesday, 1 December, we will be presenting

Posted on 19 Oct 2009
By Samuel J Smith
In event tech trends

Thoughts on “Top 10 Meeting Trends for 2010″ Webinar

In August, I took a few digital-days-off to celebrate my 10 year wedding anniversary in Croatia. While I was off-the-grid, Corbin Ball of Corbin Ball Associates and David Nour of Relationship Economics hosted a webinar on the 10 Meeting Trends for 2010. (Watch) I finally got a chance to watch that

Posted on 10 Sep 2009
By Samuel J Smith
In event tech trends

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