If anyone knows how to use new media platforms for marketing, it's KiKi L’Italien. As the moderator of Association Chat (#assnchat), or as host of the webcast, The Social Media Sweet Spot she has mastered many social media tools.
As a senior consultant for DelCor she builds online communities for associations and businesses and trains executives on how to best use emerging media to their benefit. She also helps groups develop social media policies and strategies that integrate with their existing marketing and c...
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Travel industry research firm PhoCusWright estimates that nearly 900,000 meetings were held in the U.S. in 2009 and nearly two-thirds of them were “small meetings” with fewer than 50 attendees. This is not entirely surprising, given that the recession has shifted organizations toward hosting more intimate meetings and events to reduce costs and drive greater business impact.
If you’re among those planning a small meeting, there’s likely one option you have overlooked that offers a surprisingly elegant soluti...
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You may know KiKi L'Italien as the moderator of Association Chat (#assnchat), or as host of the webcast, The Social Media Sweet Spot, but Joplin Missouri knows her as one of its own.
Like so many families, KiKi's was hit hard by the recent tornado that devastated her hometown. Now she is teaming up with her sister Kylee Coffman and pal Lindsey Rosenthal of Events For Good to create a fundraising event, June 13 from 6-9 pm in Washington DC, to benefit Joplin. She recently shared a little about the upcoming fundraise...
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Life-long learning is no longer an option. It is a mandatory part of being involved in business.
With the world around us rapidly advancing, and statistics that show we may have up to seven careers, over a life-time, continuous professional development is more critical than ever. The learning can happen formally, through either a traditional classroom, or on-line, or at meetings and conferences. One of the keys to learning is creating opportunities for meaningful engagement with your community of learners and...
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Lee Bryant of Headshift has some interesting thoughts about how the Twentieth Century was wrong.
He says:
Some people see new social technology and networked culture as dangerous and ‘new’, and they fall back on their experience of technology and organizational culture in the late Twentieth Century as the ‘established’ model. Yet, in fact the reverse is true. The Twentieth century took the ideas of the industrial revolution and applied them to peopl...
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"Don't try to win over the haters, you are not the jackass whisperer"
Quote captured by @MikeTibbles by @BreneBrown
A few years back I was on the receiving end of a rant from a representative of a foam plastic manufacturing company who was upset I had been encouraging exhibitors to discontinue use of their product in displays and shipping materials. The event was for one of my first major clients. The complainant was one of their tradeshow exhibit sponsors.
I attempted to remain calm. I let her bl...
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