Create More Brain-Friendly Events With These #Eventtable Tips
Creating a more brain-friendly event doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. Led by insights from our guest, Neuroscience Researcher Andrea Sullivan, participants on the March 9 #eventtable chat came up with some simple, cost effective tips that are sure to make your next event a neuron haven. For instance, have you considered adding more [...]
Tips for Creating More Brain-Friendly, Engaging Events on the Next #Eventtable Chat
How can event professionals more easily create engaging events that employ brain-friendly techniques? Neuroscience researcher Andrea Sullivan will join the #eventtable Twitter chat to discuss this hot topic Monday, April 9 at 3 pm est. “Engagement in meetings and conferences is a function of a great many factors, as it involves overall meeting design and [...]
Chat Participants Share Favorite Events & How They Elicited Good Feelings
During the last #eventtable Twitter chat, our opening question “What was the best experience you’ve had at an event?” drew a similar response from many of the event professional participants – Event Camp. For a chat titled “Increasing Good Feelings for Attendees,” it seemed significant. Our guest on the chat, Neuroscience Researcher Andrea Sullivan of [...]
Increasing Good Feelings for Attendees at Events – Next #eventtable Chat
Smiles, laughs, blissful productivity: we know these are indicators that attendees are having a memorable experience. Such good feelings also increase learning. But how can event pros create situations where good feelings are more likely to be a result? Andrea Sullivan of BrainStrength Systems and Lynn Randall of Randall Insights will help us tackle this [...]
Content Capture and the Certified Conference Centre
I recently had a great e-mail conversation with Sarah Vining, the amazing and tireless social media manager at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA. Sarah published the interview summary today. I particularly liked the way she connected an effective content capture strategy with the focus on learning design and lasting outcomes that organizations can [...]
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 [...]
The People Formerly Known as the Audience
When I first worked with Adrian Segar at Event Camp East Coast in 2010, I knew I’d met one of the most insightful, skilled, genuine meeting facilitators in the industry. So after The Conference Publishers began working with the International Association of Conference Centers to host the Bright Ideas for Conference Centers webinar series, I [...]
Content Strategy in a Newly Connected World: Free, Fee or Hybrid?
Should content be free or offered for a fee? There could be a lot of revenue and visibility riding on the answer. As content capture specialists, we spend a lot of time talking to clients about the objectives behind their meetings and the specific format and level of detail that will help them achieve those [...]
Remembering What Matters
Memo to Vancouver hockey rioters: Get a grip. Last night, the Boston Bruins broke millions of Canadians’ hardened hockey hearts with what really was a well-deserved win in the Stanley Cup final. The street riots in downtown Vancouver began within minutes, making headlines as far away as India and Australia and gaining prominent play on [...]
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 [...]
