The tagline of your conference is responsible for giving the first impression of what it’s all about and this should not be underestimated. An effective tagline will transmit your personality, your mission and your promise. It should capture the essence of your event and help communicate it in a simple and direct way.
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A typical mistake of many stage setups is that of hiding the speaker from the audience by adding (or not removing) obstacles between both. The most obvious obstacle on the podium is the lectern.
The TED team is famous for taking care of details that might seem minor but that have a huge impact in …
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Before the conference: you promote and try to sell. During the conference: you engage with people and generate real-time buzz. After the conference: you disappear… until you will have to promote your next event. This often involuntary behavior is comparable to the refractory period after sexual intercourse or “the recovery phase after orgasm …
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This article deals with some of the alternatives for executing a survey or poll during or after your conference is over. Making a survey to know the attendee’s opinion about your event, its contents and execution, is a straightforward action to obtaining information firsthand (but not the only one, see note below).
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It probably happens in many different jobs across various sectors and industries, but it is particularly dangerous in the world of conferences… as today more than ever they should aim to the extraordinary, not just good content and execution (read this previous article for more information on the basics components of a conference).
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A typical mistake during many conferences is to barricade the speaker on the stage which creates an obstacle to the creation of a direct connection between the speaker and his audience. Any physical object that obstacles the line of sight between them is reducing the capacity of the presenter to communicate, specially his non-verbal …
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A Gantt chart is a key tool for planning and tracking your conference. In its simplest form it works as a schedule management tool that allows to control the milestones and activities related to your conference by tracking the start/end dates and the people directly responsible for each activity.
If you have an engineering or …
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Any conference is composed by 3 main elements that make it bad, mediocre, good, excellent or memorable. The event manager mixes the right dose of each of them during strategic planning and operations to obtain the desired conference.
Very often a compromise must be reached to comply with limitations in budget, space, time, etc and …
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