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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!
Marshall Kirkpatrick (Linkedin, [...]
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Conferences are a totally different beast when it comes to photography. Duncan Davidson (LinkedIn, journal, twitter), the photographer that -amongst other things- has covered the last six major TED events, shares some practical tips that matter when reporting what happens at conference. From equipment that can handle high ISO or high shutter speeds to setting [...]
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My friend and South African technology journalist & writer Simon Dingle (web, twitter, facebook) recently tweeted the following:
“Thanks for coming to our event. Here, have a bag of rubbish.” (original tweet here)
How many times have you participated to an expensive or so called high-profile event and during/after it you got a cheap congress bag full [...]
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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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Each role inside a conference’s organization team has it’s own challenges but probably one of the most demanding is that of the Program Director. It’s her main responsibility to assure content that is great, new, relevant, inspiring, useful, well told (having good public speakers and storytellers), etc.
Monique van Dusseldorp, experienced program director with a record [...]
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There are plenty of online tools for sharing your events: from the classic Upcoming to Facebook and Linkedin events. Plancast is rather an evolution of Upcoming on steroids, offering the extra layer of “social” that allows you to follow the events of your friends and contacts and then spread the voice on Twitter and Facebook [...]
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International conferences are a sensitive spot for the dissemination of highly contagious diseases like Swine Flu (H1N1), Bird Flu (H1N5) or just regular flu. This is because they gather lots of people and travelers in particular, who have a higher possibility of being exposed to someone carrying it while going to the conference (think of [...]
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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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A friend calls me for advice: she wants to attract some “bloggers” to her business conference in order to 1) make her event more “modern” by being present on the blogosphere and 2) satisfy a request from the company’s management to… be more “modern”. While her request was a valid one, product of a sincere [...]
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