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Remove Barriers Between Speaker and Audience (Lectern)

February 12, 2010

in Basics, Ideas, Tips

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 creating [...]

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Reducing the Risk of H1N1 Flu During Conferences

January 14, 2010

in Tips

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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The Montemagno Recipe for improving Le Web (and any other tech conference)

January 4, 2010

in Conference, Ideas, Tips

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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Bloggers in conferences: don’t try to tame the beast

October 26, 2009

in Tips

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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Event Management Toolkit V.2 by the Event Manager Blog

June 22, 2009

in Ideas, Tips

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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[video] Jasper Bouwsma on what makes a Remarkable Conference

June 13, 2009

in Future of Conferences, Interview, Tips

Last Tuesday I met Jasper Bouwsma at a new European event, I Realize – The Art of Disruption. Jasper is the founder of Vujàdé Ltd, a company that provides consultancy services to start-ups and established companies on innovation processes and change management and serves as an incubator for new ideas.
Jasper has attended many innovative conferences [...]

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Customer Service: small details that help create a better experience

May 31, 2009

in Tips

The following advice won’t make you earn more money but won’t cost you either… and might improve the experience of someone attending to your conference. Small details matter and when they are easy to take care of it’s diabolic not to do so.
It happens often that someone in your audience has a headache or accidentally [...]

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