6 Ways to Create a Community With Your Content
During the Meetings Technology Expo in New York last month, Event Farm's Brennan McReynolds provided insightful tips on how to engage your audience with an effective communication strategy.
Archives for October 2013
The Tech Threat to Face-to-Face, Circa 1969
As a professor in NYU's interactive communications and journalism program, Clay Shirky spends his days studying the Internet and digital networks. So my ears perked up when Shirky began talking about the kind of networking that's done when you run into someone in the hallway.
Embracing 'The Pratfall Effect'
I once attended a lecture by a prominent academic that was interrupted by a ringing cellphone. That's jarring, but this was made even more so by the fact that the phone just kept ringing — and ringing. Finally, the speaker realized that it was her own phone ringing, and ran offstage to find her handbag and shut it off.
Great [Meeting] Places in America
The American Planning Association (APA), a not-for-profit educational organization focused on the development of vital communities, traces its roots back to none other than a conference: the first National Conference on City Planning in Washington, D.C., in 1909.
This Trait is the Key to Success (in Any Industry)
Here at Convene, we’ve been talking a lot about how things are changing — in the publishing realm because we are a magazine; in the meetings realm because we are an association of meeting professionals; in the tech realm because technology is a vital part of both those endeavors.
5 Questions to Ask When Planning Your Communication Strategy
Event Farm's Brennan McReynolds provides meeting professionals with key tips for engaging with and evoking emotion from their audiences.
Introverts and Insights at ASAE
Quiet Storm Susan Cain (above) was the opening general session speaker at ASAE 2013, which drew more than 5,400 attendees.
Community and Research Intersect at AAIC 2013
More than 5,000 academics and researchers gathered for the world’s largest forum on dementia research — the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) — held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on July 13-18.
A Big Meeting About Small Things
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), an approximately 9,000-member international community of biologists who study the cell, will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Dec. 14-18.
How Big Media Does Medical Meetings
With health-care summits booming, we talk to meeting professionals from The Atlantic and The Economist magazines about theirs — and come away with prescriptions for organizers of medical association conferences, from creating a high-level blend of medicine and policy, to leveraging your organization’s brand, to standing out in a crowded marketplace.
