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Compiling, completing and sharing all the relevant links (like twitter and linkedin profiles, personal & company websites, etc) of the speakers and attendees, or performing other long & mechanical tasks for your conference might seem as a particulary time-consuming burden of your event management activities… but not anymore thanks to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk!
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A good speech depends on several factors, for sure it’s not enough to invite/hire a good speaker. While she might have good public speaking skills, willingness to engage with the attendees or the [good] habit of practicing her presentation over and over again, some of the variables necessary for success are external to her.
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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).
There is no “one [...]
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There are plenty of online tools to make the live coverage of your conference over the internet. In this article I have summarized the most useful, powerful and easier to use ones.
The global availability of broadband and a bunch of web 2.0 services have made the live transmission of an event a low cost (if [...]
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In a perfect world a conference room should always be full to its maximum capacity. Even having a bunch of people standing up transmits a feeling of big success. In reality it seldom happens but as the event organizer you should try your best to make the room look full or at least to concentrate [...]
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Making a “faceroll” consists in documenting through photos the faces of the attendees to a conference with the scope of having a visual archive for you (the organizer) and the other participants.
You can achieve this goal through many ways depending on the kind of conference, venue and resources available. The one I describe is probably [...]
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When it comes to documenting your event through photography (together with video the most powerful instruments) a question I get very often is how to recruit the right photographer. Many variables are involved, from getting a professional one to having a lot of amateurs around to capture different moments and points of view. In any case one of the most significant factors is the creation of a storyboard.
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