Pros Share Tips For Using Social Media to Augment Corporate Events
What are the advantages of using social media to enhance your corporate event and what are some methods that work? These were some of the questions participants on the April 30 #Eventtable chat addressed. Our special guest was Jill Drury of Drury Design Dynamics who has developed social media strategies specifically for corporate events. Jill [...]
How Social Media is Changing Humanity and Events
This weeks #eventtable chat featured guest Lynn Randall of Randall Insight’s, a company that helps planners apply the lessons of neuroscience and macroergonomics to supercharge engagement. Lynn helped us tackle the subject of how social media is changing humanity and how this is affecting events. The discussion was a lively one which ran the gamut [...]
#Eventtable: A New Twitter Chat on Innovation in Meetings and Events
We’re thrilled to be launching #Eventtable, a new hour-long Twitter chat for meeting and event professionals interested in innovation. The chats will take place every Monday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, beginning February 6. The chat, sponsored by The Conference Publishers and moderated by meetings and social media specialist Jenise Fryatt, will become an online [...]
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 [...]
General Session Design 3.0: Keys to Your Organizational and Personal Success
Fusion Productions collaborated with Meeting Professionals International (MPI) to produce the general sessions for the 2010 World Education Congress (WEC 2010). To demonstrate its “meeting of the future” design strategy, Fusion brought in a team of world-class partners and continued to co-create through the entire production process—before, during and after the WEC. During a Monday [...]
Audience Profile Drives Technology Choices
Before deciding dates, location and venue for a conference, meeting planners and suppliers must understand who should attend, why they would want to and what they’re most concerned about, social media specialist Paul Salinger told participants in a Sunday morning breakout session. Salinger, vice president of marketing at Oracle Corporation, described a plethora of technologies [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After Copenhagen: How Meetings Can Kick the Carbon Habit
By the end of this week, the 192 countries represented at the Copenhagen Summit may or may not reach a global deal to control climate change and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide. But whether or not humanity rises to the challenge, the science doesn’t lie. With or without an agreement, this is the moment for industrialized [...]
A Meeting Worth Holding
At a time when conferences are cancelling, participants are staying home in large numbers, and the flavour of the month is to replace live meetings with webcasts and virtual events, there are two sure criteria that still make it essential for groups to gather in person: • A clear, immediate purpose that is best served [...]
