TweetLovely video shot at Burning Man 2011 based on famous writer of children books Dr. Seuss‘s final book before his death. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! deals with life and its challenges, ups and downs and how to get over them. The video-story acts also as a presentation of at least one of the sides of [...]
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TweetRarely have I seen such a clear and useful way to represent the event strategy of a company. Michelle Thorne (blog, twitter) of the Mozilla Foundation (the guys behind the web browser Firefox among other things) has recently published the Mozilla Event Menu, and overview of different event formats they will be acting throughout the year [...]
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TweetCreating “interactive experiences” is essential for live events, be them face-to-face (f2f), virtual) or hybrid (a mix of f2f and virtual). Interactive experiences are one of the reasons that justifies being present, a way to connect attendees with each other, with the content and with the speakers. Creating interactive experiences is also an over-hyped expression [...]
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TweetSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) is a rather abused concept and often it means using tricks and not real value to make your content more findable on search engines, but there are a few things that are smart to increase discoverability (the possibility of your event being found). The main search engines, including Bing, Google, Yahoo!, have [...]
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TweetThe World’s Fair, Universal Exposition, or just “Expo”, is “encompass universal themes that affect the full gamut of human experience, and international and corporate participants are required to adhere to the theme in their representations” (from Wikipedia). The next edition will take place in 2015 in Milan, Italy (website). The theme is Feeding the Planet, Energy for [...]
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TweetMy friend, the power networker and tech entrepreneur, Kiruba Shankar (blog, twitter, linkedin) is currently attending TED Active in Palm Springs and posted a new interesting idea in action from the TED Team: TEDx in a Box. In Kiruba’s own words: TED has come up with a concept called ‘TEDx in a Box’. It’s a [...]
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TweetReflecting over a busy year of conferences and the main characteristics that made my experience as an attendee better, I always come back to event size and intimacy. In his recent article “An industry challenge: build “MicroSXSW” to bring back fun times at SXSW”, Robert Scoble complains on the big size that South by Southwest [...]
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TweetCan’t wait until late January! That was my first thought while sipping my morning cafe-latte in Amsterdam and avidly reading the latest issue of Monocle Magazine (issue 39. volume 04, December 10/January 11) and I came across the announcement of their upcoming Guide to a Better Conference (to be included in the February 2011 issue). [...]
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TweetA great conference is one that not only INSPIRES you but also moves you to DO something. What would you like that your conference stimulated in the attendees? How can you improve the event experience that you’re planning in order for this to happen? While following the live-streaming and tweets of the Web 2.0 Summit [...]
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TweetThis article is about some things we achieved during PICNIC that I’m particularly fond of. We made several things right and probably as many other wrong, but I the end it’s those fun, creative and innovative achievements done with the team that I cherish the most. Big disclaimer: I’ve been the Marketing Manager of PICNIC [...]
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