#Eventtable LIVE! From GMIC: A Chat on Take Aways From the Conference
To accommodate a special Sustainable Meetings Conference edition of the #eventtable Twitter chat next week, the chat will change from it’s regularly scheduled time of 3 pm est, to 5 pm est Monday April 22 and will focus on takeaways from the conference. The Sustainable Meetings Conference, hosted by the Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC), [...]
Pros, Cons of Gamification for Events Discussed at #Eventtable Chat
This week’s #eventtable Twitter chat featured guest Elizabeth Henderson sharing what she’s learned about gamification for events as both a researcher and as an event designer. Lindsey Rosenthal filled in as moderator for the chat which yielded some fascinating insights.
Gamification and Your Event: A Chat With Elizabeth Henderson
What’s the big deal about gamification for events? Find out at the next #eventtable Twitter chat Monday, March 5 at 3 pm est when our guest will be Elizabeth Henderson of MeetingChange. As chair of last year’s wildly successful Sustainable Meetings Conference for the Green Meetings Industry Council, Elizabeth led a team which used online [...]
Chat Yields Wealth of Info & Discussion on Event Sustainability Standards
The following is a summary of an #eventtable chat held 3/27 with Andrew Walker, event sustainability specialist and founder of E3 Strategy. There are new standards for event sustainability. That means, event professionals now have an agreed-upon definition of what it takes to ensure meetings and events are organized with social, environmental and economic sustainability [...]
The New Event Sustainability Standards: Why They Matter
What are the new event sustainability standards and what do the mean for event professionals? We will address that question during the next #eventtable Twitter chat Monday, Feb. 27 at 3 pm est when our guest will be Andrew Walker of E3 Strategy. Andrew has been immersed in the world of event sustainability for some [...]
Four Tough Challenges that Make Sustainability Easier
Earlier this month, a colleague shook up my thinking about green meetings with an idea that could shift any organization’s sustainability program in a more practical direction. And here’s the twist: the surest way to simplify our industry’s approach to sustainability might be to sharpen our focus on the toughest sustainability issues we face. Thanks [...]
The Conference Your Conference Could Be
If you could reach a wider audience with your next conference and deliver a far more engaging, immersive experience onsite, would you want to? How you answer that question—and the steps you’re prepared to take to set a new plan in motion—may not be as obvious as you might think. Your response will tell you [...]
Green Meeting Standards Mark Industry Transformation
After three years of rigorous debate and extensive input from more than 200 volunteers and pan-industry experts, a uniform set of green meetings standards is set for release before the end of this year. A joint project of the Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) and the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM), the APEX/ASTM Green Meeting [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Attend the Sustainable Meetings Conference
With the 2010 Sustainable Meetings Conference coming up in Denver February 9-11, the Green Meeting Industry Council is circulating the top 10 reasons that this is a must-attend event. This might just be the best, most in-depth green meetings conference the industry has ever seen. But the 10 reasons point to a bigger, wider value [...]
A Quiet Sense of Duty
Late last month, I received a surprising email that will shape the lion’s share of the volunteer time I devote to our industry over the next two years. I wouldn’t normally be quite this excited about an opportunity to pack dozens of extra hours into a schedule that is already overloaded. But this isn’t just [...]
