Engagement has become the issue of the day. Companies want to engage customers. Teachers want to engage students. Associations and community managers want to engage members. We’ve moved from trying to keep someone’s attention, to seeking a dialogue. I read a great article yesterday about “The Flipped Classroom,” where students view their professor’s lecture from home, then come to class to discuss it. Great idea!
Perhaps nowhere is the topic of engagement more discussed, more critical – and, probably, ...
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Introduction
None of us would be where we are today without learning, whether it was in the form of instruction, reading, observing or doing. Thanks to the web, conventional learning models are shifting. In fact, they’re being turned upside down.
We’re discovering that knowledge and instruction can be embedded in web apps, empowering students to learn and experience at their own pace. In addition, we know that everyone is passionate about something. And just as blogging transfo...
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I define a virtual event as “a web and occasion-based gathering that facilitates information sharing, collaboration and interaction.” Virtual events typically involve hundreds, if not thousands of simultaneous users.
Facebook enables the very same information sharing, collaboration and interaction, but does so on top of a user base of 700+ million registered users and 500 million active users.
Facebook is by far the world’s largest virtual event. The “Facebook virtual event” is a perp...
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The last four months have been a whirlwind for me as I was lucky enough to be able to attend several industry events. I was able to attend the Certified Meetings Professional (CMP) Conclave, International Association of Exhibitions and Events’ (IAEE) Mid-Year Meeting, AIBTM, Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) World Education Congress (WEC), the Trade Show Exhibitors Association’s (TSEA) Red Diamond Congress and finally the Philadelphia pod of EventCamp Twin Cities (ECTC) just the other week. One ni...
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Last week I attended EventCamp Twin Cities (ECTC11) as a virtual attendee. I was both curious and excited about the experience. Several days before the event I signed up and awaited, not knowing what to expect. Let me share with you my experiences, insights and thoughts.
For those who are not familiar with ECTC, please check the ECTC website.
Beforehand I defined a few areas that I wanted to observe:
• Information Provisioning
• Technical Aspects
• Engagement and Interaction
• Overall Event expe...
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Introduction
I recently attended my child’s elementary school science fair and was intrigued to find game mechanics employed by the fair’s planners. The fair had several rows of “exhibits” (students’ science projects) and a number of students were seen walking studiously from project to project, with a rectangular slip of paper. It turns out the paper was a game card (pictured above), with a list of projects that students needed to find (and check off the list).
The Challenge and Completion...
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