Event Pros Discuss How Associations Can Make Use of Hybrid Events
Though associations are just beginning to explore them, participants at our May 14 #Eventtable chat agreed hybrid events offer potential benefits ranging from expanded reach, to additional avenues for sharing content to new ways of generating revenue. Long-time association supplier and hybrid event enthusiast David McKnight of Digital Publishing was our guest on the chat [...]
How Do Hybrid Meetings Fit Into Associations?
How can hybrid meetings help associations grow and thrive in a rapidly changing world? David McKnight, President of Digital Publishing Innovation, will help us tackle this question on the next #eventtable Twitter chat, Monday, May 14 at 3 pm est. McKnight has been helping associations manage content and create value for members for more than [...]
#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), [...]
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 [...]
The Value of Virtual Meetings for Event Professionals
Event planners are recommending virtual meetings. Why? Join us on the next #eventtable chat, Monday 2/20 at 3 pm est, when our guest will be Samuel J. Smith, one of the authors of a new MPI/Maxvantage study entitled The Strategic Value of Virtual Meetings and Events . The new study has revealed some surprising insights [...]
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 [...]
Building a Better Platform
Our son, Adrian, is a software developer, and frequently brings us his observations on the IT business. Sometimes, those observations hit closer to home. A conversation a few months ago had to do with a hardware manufacturer that may be nearing its sunset. It’s a company that once shone brightly, but is being overtaken by [...]
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 [...]
