'I'll Be Your Visionary, and You Do the Things I Come Up With'
Does it get any bigger than having The Onion riff on you?
Archives for October 2012
Voices Carry: Understanding and Expanding Your Audience
So many histories, cultures, customs, and languages have remained in existence because of community radio stations.
Making Magic with Dancing Matt
Magic can happen when people get together. Especially when people put their hearts into it and don't mind looking goofy.
Site Selection
A recent Convene epanel survey revealed the ways in which more than 200 meeting professionals find destinations and venues for their events, and how they think hotels size up their business.
Breaking Convention
For meeting and exhibit space, flexibility no longer begins and ends with airwalls. Today, convention centers are rethinking how groups might utilize their every nook and cranny - and even how their facilities might be repurposed for entirely different audiences. Including the Olympics.
Connecting the Dots at MPI
What word connects the following three: pine, sauce, and tree?” Jonah Lehrer, author, academic, and former staff writer for The New Yorker, asked the audience at MPI’s 2012 World Education Congress (WEC). A few people in the front row called out the answer: “Apple!”
Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller may have wound up “hopping onto the meetings and events industry,” but she’s managed to carve out an important role in the field as the owner and president of Schaumburg, Ill.–based Total Events Resources and president of the 2012–2013 Board of Governors for the International Special Events Society (ISES), whose 5,000 members represent more than 50 different disciplines, including event producers, communication companies, event designers, entertainment producers, linen experts, and marketers.
Supported Article Innovative Meetings
It Takes a Village
Sage Summit attendees told conference organizers they wanted more ways to connect — and not just more opportunities to network in the same old way.
Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
When the researchers and designers at Steelcase were first invited to create the environment for the annual three-and-a-half-day gathering for TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design), we began by asking ourselves: How might we create compelling experiential spaces in this temporary environment?
Olympian Effort
History was made in London this summer - and not just by star athletes like Gabby Douglas and Michael Phelps. The 2012 Olympic Games were the most sustainable Summer Olympics ever, setting a new bar for sustainable event management and inspiring a new international standard.
Is Your Conference Marketing So Last Year?
The minute your conference is finished, you have to start working on how to get your audience to return next year.
Supported Article Meeting Management
Sponsorship: An App-titude for Revenue
As the use of mobile apps grows, so do opportunities for sponsorship. Here’s how the SATELLITE Conference upped its own signal.
