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Thursday, March 18, 2010
So, it was 1910, and Clara was in Copenhagen, Denmark, attending the second International Conference of Working Women. At this conference there were more than 100 women from 17 different countries. They represented unions, socialist parties, working women’s clubs. At this conference, Clara shared her dream—that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day – A Women’s Day—a day on which women could gather together and advocate for their rights. And her suggestion was met with unanimous approval.
One year later, in 1911,
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
It's no surprise that we're seeing cases studies coming out of the recent SXSW interactive conference of what to do--and what not to do--when trying to mesh old-school speaking standards with the new Twitter backchannel. Today, New York University professor Jay Rosen--who refers to "the people formerly known as the audience" as a signal of audience power--weighs in with a positive case study, How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists. If you are organizing, speaking at or just attending a conference, meeting or workshop, I think it's a must-read because it is:
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Now imagine a conference and expo held in this large echoing hall, with speakers or musicians on the stage at the same time as a couple hundred people shmooze their way through the expo. The organizers of the event could have done a couple of things to make this better for everyone involved. Or, in the case of Earl Warren Showgrounds, had the organizers also rented the Warren Hall for Over this past weekend I shared a booth at the Women's Festival at Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara. The main exhibit hall at the showgrounds is a large, circular building with
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Friday, July 31, 2009
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.
SB: Speakers are the core of most conferences, yet the lectures and lecturers have earned a reputation for being boring. I’m not sure I’ve run a few events myself and a challenge many attendees never think about is how to arrange the day. When are the breaks?
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Most training conferences in most industries resort to what’s called a panel session. Sometimes they’re on the panel because they’re too dull, or low profile, to earn their own session in the eyes of the organizers, and the session isn’t tended to as much as other sessions. Often the moderator is the conference organizer, and they are afraid to challenge the panelists since the panelists are their guests.
This is where 3 to 5 experts get up on stage and each one, in turn, bores the audience to death.
Why do panels still happen?
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Friday, May 1, 2009
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. On the complete opposite end, I’ve seen one self-important moderator answer questions from the
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
about people. Conference Tweeting A Distraction and Waste of Time, or Not? Since the 2008 Zuckerberg interview, SXSW has to be one of the largest scale laboratories for using Twitter while at a conference. Many saw how that particular “interview” rapidly took a nosedive, spurred by backchannel twitter chatter live during the event. So… is Twitter helpful or hurtful when it comes to conference participation? For Home About Consumer Centric digging. listening.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
conferences. difficult one for the meetings and conferences industry, and as we start
another What is the state of conferences today? the game and continue to provide worthwhile activities for organizations
thinking makes a worthwhile conference, I’m starting a series of blogs on the future of
conferences. 0160; Last year was a
difficult
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Tim Sanders recently about the future and green conferences. doing well by doing good, and a part of doing good for any organization is
hosting the conference bag, you get a USB stick with everything on it. biggest area is what is thrown out after a conference or a meeting. I talked with author, speaker, and former Yahoo! executive
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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). The wife of the Governor of Lagos State attended the entire conference and each presenter started her comments with, "Her Excellency, First Lady of Lagos State, distinguished ladies and gentlemen..." They were both amazing experiences and I thought it would be interesting to make some comparisons between African and U.S. presentation
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Conferences ask a lot of passivity from their audiences –
audiences aren’t all conferences like this?
The Renaissance model requires a good deal of pre-conference
planning Another kind of conference model takes this even
further: audiences made up of people who are normally quite active. 0160; The traditional model involves sitting
in
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Friday, January 8, 2010
It took a year for the conference world (and the traveling
public) long will it take for conferences and meetings to rebound from the financial meltdown
of consensus in the conference world; from a low of 13% in June 2009, the number
of Professionals International (MPI), one of the two big organizations of
conference public) to recover from 9/11. 0160; How
long
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Overall, it was a great conference, as usual. By the way, to vicariously attend the conference, go to your Twitter account and search for #pptlive, the hash tag for the conference. Rick Altman is a great host and organizer; he makes the conference both a learning and a fun experience. Cliff Atkinson ( www.beyondbulletpoints.com This year, PPTLive was in Atlanta. I’m still processing all that I heard and learned.
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