About 10 minutes into his speech, the conference attendees used Twitter to make fun of the speaker's poor word choice. If conference organizers don't lead -- someone else will! conference planner "best backchannel practice" is to define and promote a short, unique, and memorable conference hashtag for the conference attendees. Short - Twitter only has 140 characters. “Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends - if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath.

I’ve run a few events myself and a challenge many attendees never think about is how to arrange the day. One of my favorite conferences is GEL  - Good Experiences Live (it’s the place that let me run my NYC Sacred architecture tour ), and I asked the organizer Mark Hurst his thoughts on doing this well. I’m not sure how this compares with other conferences - I can’t speak for them - but I’ll leave it to you to imagine the other When are the breaks? What order should the speakers go in?

If you communicate the hashtag to attendees before the presentation, you can generate interest in your upcoming presentation by tweeting questions or recommended links and resources thereby facilitating a dialogue before you actually speak. Use Twitter as a polling technique to gather attendees' opinions and answers. Let's say you In a previous post, I explored  common concerns about Twitter usage in presentations and concluded that Twitter offers many benefits in terms of audience involvement and engagement. However, seeing the benefits of using Twitter and being able to incorporate

Logistically, they require the same things most conferences run on: great speakers, relevant exhibitors and sponsors, and eager attendees. The goal is to get the right speakers to draw the right attendees who might also be of interest to the exhibitors and sponsors. But just as much, it’s great to introduce someone who comes as an attendee to Tim O’Reilly or Charlene Li or any of the speakers we have coming. chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of The Art of Butts in Chairs March 20, 2009 · Comments I run a series of conferences .

Meeting planners and conference organizers are also using online community tools to help conference attendees network both pre and post-event. Then follow the presentation with a post-event Internet radio podcast/Mp3 of some of the attendees. If you have a video camera, film attendees talking about the content and post online. Skip to content Skip to navigation Mashable Mashable Lists Twitter How To Music Travel WordPress Jobs Games Google Business More Lists Blogger Blogging Bookmarks Browsers Business Celebrity Current Events Dating Desktop Apps Events

link] Judy Gombita February 23, 2009 As an event attendee, I find it very distracting when other people around me are tapping away on a computer, phone or PDA. The other issue that has not been addressed is what is the content of the tweets being exchanged with this less-committed audience of secondary attendees? Pistachio Micro sharing. Macro results.

38 mins ago « Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 30, 2008 Silicon Valley Sightings: San Jose Mercury News » 67 How to Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide Categories: Conference Posted on January 30th, 2008 Yesterday, I moderated another panel, ( here’s a review ) and I’m told by the conference organizers it went well. Ask the conference organizers what success would look like, what questions does the audience want answered and what is their

Also worth noting in both countries was the politeness of attendees. Unlike one might imagine, attendees sat patiently, without complaint, using the time for additional networking. found this to be a richer format for attendees as it gave them a number of perspectives on a given topic and encouraged greater dialogue among panelists and between panelists and audience. I've just returned from two trips to Africa where I spoke and ran workshops at the Women in Management and Business  (WimBIZ) conference (Lagos, Nigeria) and the Kenyan Association of Women Business Owners  (KAWBO) conference (Nairobi, Kenya).

An entire business exists for speakers, conference organizers and what are called speaker’s bureaus, for matching speakers and events together. They even have a search tool to help organizers find the right speaker for their event. SB: Most people I know are surprised to learn there is a public speaking economy, an entire network of organizations that help match paid speakers to venues. Most people don’t know it, but some speakers at events they attend are paid to be there. I

saw it as the ultimate learning experience: having the value of a seasoned presenter guiding our process and adding content, and peer to peer learning with attendees. You can organize it to have special live searches running on hashtags and very quickly reply to comments coming in from the audience. At the same time, organizers are asking to have live, public twitter included in the event to make it fun for attendees. Home Presentation eBook Blog About Best Posts Content PowerPoint Nervousness Delivery Audience Contact Browse > Home / Audience / 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool March 1, 2009 by Olivia Mitchell Welcome to this blog - my aim is to make a difference to the success of your presentations.