Interesting ideas on Conferences for Kids, Inflatable Multimedia, Holograms and more…
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The times when you could pull off a successful conference by just gathering in the same room a speaker (good or bad), a bunch of chairs and some people are over. If it’s only about the content, you can now avoid going to an event by finding it on the web or reading the latest [...]
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Many events have the habit of distributing crappy & useless gadgets, often provided by the sponsors. It gets even worse when attendees get to fight for them (I’ve seen men in suits which -directly or indirectly- had payed more than 2.000 USD for a ticket fighting over who got a cheap cap with the BMW [...]
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Marco Montemagno (blog, twitter) followed the live streaming of Le Web Paris 2009 and was terribly bored. He’s no ordinary spectator though. Montemagno is an Italian technology speaker & evangelist, web entrepreneur, TV host… in a few words a 360 degree communicator that has been running an “internet evangelizing show” throughout Itally called Codice Internet. [...]
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Following his series of videos started here, Robin Good further explores what in his opinion is going to be the future of conferences: engaged audiences and extended events.
Robin pitches two ideas for events to move from the classic (and rather obsolete) top-town broadcasting model, where the attendees are just a passive observer, to a participative [...]
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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).
More often than [...]
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Through my friend, journalist and blogger Luca Conti, I discovered this interesting website on event management and the Event Management Toolkit V.2 they have recently shared online.
The blog is run by Julius Solaris and the Event Management Toolkit V.2 (click here to download the pdf) is a collective project with the contribution of 15 professional [...]
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I asked the famous online entrepreneur Robin Good from Master New Media his opinion on what is going to be the future of conferences.
In this first part he describes how a conference is going to be “extended”:
Starting way before the physical event (if there is one) and lasting a long time after the event is [...]
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In a near future, ebooks could have an important role during conferences as they could serve as an interactive “digital handout”, avoiding attendees carrying hundreds of printed pages with them and providing advanced search functions for consultation after the event is over.
Amazon has just presented the Kindle DX ebook reader and everyone is crazy about [...]
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