meetings | Interactive Meeting Technology

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

WEC Final: Love 161, Fiasco Zero

One of the great things about Social Media is your ability to monitor conversations. The general consensus at MPI’s World Education Conference in Vancouver last month was that the Twitter conversations were up and complaining via Twitter was down. So, I did a short analysis on the Twitter conversations from WEC to

Posted on 14 Aug 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

Five Perspectives on Technology in Learning & Events

Last week, I came across five different articles on technology that are worth your attention. In some cases these articles are directly related to meetings and events. In other cases the linkage is indirect. Regardless, I thought these perspectives would be useful to you as you think about using technology

Posted on 31 May 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In other

Stars, Champions, Trolls and Your Event Community

We know much more about setting up and managing an event community than we did a year ago. The report “Best Practices in Online Community Management” produced by Pathable reads like a secret decoder ring for first time event community managers. While the report is loaded with with helpful advice, I thought

Posted on 22 Apr 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social networking

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New York City Marathon 2010