Last year Event Camp East Coast introduced the peer driven conference to many in the event industry. It didn't have hired speakers or a program listing session topics.
What it did have was a format designed to: 1- identify what attendees wanted to learn and who in the room could deliver it; and 2 - create a highly effective structure for knowledge and ideas to be shared.
Because it drew some of the most innovative thinkers in the industry, there were loads of discussions. And several people remarked that they appre...
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What would happen if you transformed your event with a game? Would it inspire creativity, problem solving and innovation among your attendees? Would it energize everyone? Or would it be so stressful that it wouldn’t be worth the effort?
The Green Meetings Industry Council used gaming to transform their learning and communication platform. GMIC designed an interactive and collaborative game that created incentives for attendees to (A) apply the learning from the conference in real time, (B) support...
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Today I read an article by Maddie Grant at Social Fishwhich made me think, as always thank you Maddie for your thoughtfulness! In this article she references an article by Rich Becker that also has some great points. Check these out too.
They are not the first people to comment on the keys to success in business and in doing business in a social media forum require that you have imagination, creativity, innovation and truth. This sounds great, but what does this mean - to us in ...
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A Summary from the
Engage365 Water Cooler Chat
March 18, 2011
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Topic: How events should adapt to the online world
Video killed the radio star. Netflicks trumps Blockbuster. And now, hybrid events are sneaking right up on traditional face-to-face events. It's a reality every event professional needs to face… The online reality, because for those who choose to ignore it, they will remain stagnant while the industry progresses around them, and while everyone's events wi...
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A Summary from the
Engage365 Water Cooler Chat
February 25, 2011
Complete Transcript
Topic: Takeaways from Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC) Sustainable Meetings Conference
“The industry talks about the future of meetings… This was it” (@ehenderson). In our recent Engage365 Watercooler Chat, we discussed our takeaways from the recent GMIC conference, and how their innovative meeting design broke the barrier between live and remote, and allowed them to collaborate (@psalinger...
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The Green Meetings Industry Council's recent Sustainable Meetings Conference entitled "Game On!", created a new conference format that featured collaborative and interactive gaming. The group took some big risks, that seem to have panned out for the most part as approximately 300 people, both on site and virtual, attended the event.
Elizabeth Henderson, Chief Sustainability Strategist with Meeting Change (www.meetingchange.com), served as GMIC 2011 Conference Chair. I recently asked her a few questions about how s...
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