Case Study: Fully Immersive Virtual Environments
Host Organization: Clever Zebra Specialization: Fully immersive virtual environments Objectives: When an organization sets up a fully immersive virtual environment alongside a face-to-face meeting, the objective is to extend the live gathering in every possible way: by bringing onsite and online participants together, sharing knowledge and ideas across a continent or around the world, opening [...]
Case Study: The Better Buildings: Better Business Conference
Name of Conference: Better Buildings: Better Business Conference Host Organization: Energy Center of Wisconsin Dates: March, 2005 Location: Wisconsin Dells, WI Objectives: The annual Better Buildings: Better Business Conference seeks to make midwestern United States homes more energy-efficient by delivering hands-on training workshops, technology demonstrations, and building science education to homebuilders and contractors. The Energy [...]
Case Study: The NASC Sports Events Symposium
Name of Conference: NASC Sports Events Symposium Name of Organization: National Association of Sports Commissions Dates: Annual, most recent April 13-15, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio Objectives: Through its annual NASC Sports Events Symposium, the National Association of Sports Commissions keeps its members up to date on trends in the sports events industry and how to [...]
Meetings that Change the World
All this month, The Edge will carry advance and onsite coverage of MPI’s 2010 World Education Congress, July 24-27, 2010 in Vancouver. Posts are linked to an online community produced for MPI by Fusion Productions in partnership with The Conference Publishers, Clever Zebra, and master of ceremonies Glenn Thayer. Join the discussion today! At any [...]
Behind the Curtain: Why the Meetings Supply Chain Matters
One of the most profound ways for our industry to green its operations is to think of everything we do as part of a supply chain, not just as an end product. It’s a simple mental shift that carries big implications for meetings and events. It may run counter to the training and habits that [...]
Father’s Day Thoughts: How My Dad Helped Build Our Company
VANCOUVER—Father’s Day was a travel day for me this year, so this post is as close as I’m going to get to talking to my dad. That’s just as well, in a way, because I can’t think of a better way to start bringing our blog back up to date than by tracing some of [...]
When Opportunity Knocks
COLORADO SPRINGS — Our brilliant Denver freelancer Traci Pearson and I have been onsite this week at The Broadmoor Hotel, producing a daily newsletter for a software user group meeting organized by Karen and Gary Brown, the tireless and effective co-owners of Conferences by Design in Salisbury, MD. I’ve acquired new respect for the distribution [...]
Magic on a Shoestring
We’re returning to The Edge after a longer absence than we expected! In the next couple of weeks, watch this space for one of our clients’ insights on the cost of not bringing in professional support to capture conference content effectively, plus news on our move to a virtual office.) Today, I plan to spend [...]
Our Most Demanding Audience
Meeting professionals, meet your future audience. Last week, amid the hype and humour that greeted the release of the Apple iPad, some of the most pithy assessments of tablet technology came from a group of keen observers who will probably begin attending conferences in the next 10 to 15 years. By the time they start [...]
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 [...]
