May 2013
CONVENE IS TWEETING ABOUT MEETINGS
- Lockable phone/tablet chargers @ events sound like a great idea: #pcma #linkedin #eventprofs
http://t.co/kpvcib8Ltiby HootSuite - What's Love Got to Do With Networking? #eventprofs #pcma
http://t.co/9joeKpmXv8by HootSuite - #Eventprofs: How to take better photos on your iPhone (b/c sometimes it's all you got) via @cntraveler #pcma
http://t.co/99ImbVFjvuby HootSuite - Why mtgs and conventions are 'sales festivals' according to @danielpink #eventprofs #pcma
http://t.co/QyZXCGPYtvby HootSuite - How to predict results of your meeting BEFORE it happens w/ @kaplanmobray
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- Lockable phone/tablet chargers @ events sound like a great idea: #pcma #linkedin #eventprofs
Author Archives: bpalmer
Sticky Meetings in a Spray-Glue World
He’s an “expert on Web stuff,” computer scientist and artist John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, told the digitalNOW audience earlier this month at Walt Disney World in Orlando. A little bit of an expert: Maeda has been so … Continue reading
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Meetings March on Washington
On April 10–11, the U.S. Travel Association and partners including Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) will gather for Destination: Capitol Hill, which will bring together professionals from all segments of the travel industry to Washington, D.C. for an event that includes … Continue reading
From Epic Fail to Radical Hope
It takes a lot of courage to admit that you mistakenly ordered 40,000 elephants to be shot. But that’s exactly what biologist Allan Savory did in the talk at TED2013 in Long Beach. It was a terrible decision, he told … Continue reading
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Retail Therapy
Macy’s is making retail history by investing $400 million into one existing store — its flagship Herald Square store in New York City. It’s hard not to be wowed by the new shoe department: the largest in the world, it … Continue reading
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“Four Days in January”
It’s been 18 months since we posted an interview with Billy Kirsch, a Grammy- and Emmy- nominated musician and president of Kidbilly Music, which creates music-based team-building and icebreaker sessions for conferences and events. I asked him then if he had … Continue reading
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Thinking Like a Paranoid Optimist
When New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman spoke Wednesday at Convening Leaders 2013 about what it will take to survive in a hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world, he described a global shift from the three Rs to the three Cs … Continue reading
When Donkeys and Elephants Meet … Face to Face
As regular readers know, Convene has an ongoing feature called “There’s a Meeting for That?” which spotlights meetings that take us by surprise — there’s a meeting for that? —while reminding us of the sturdiness of the desire for people … Continue reading
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Meeting Planners Without Borders
Just four days after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, I heard from Jean Tracy, national sales manager for George Fern Exposition & Event Services. I wasn’t the least bit surprised to learn that Jean, who lives in Austin, was … Continue reading
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5 Questions for GMIC President Michael Luehrs
Sustainability in the meetings industry is having a moment, following the success of the Olympic Games in London, planned from the beginning to be the greenest Games ever. (Read our story here.) And Michael Luehrs, 2012-13 president for the Green Meeting Industry … Continue reading
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Hanging Out With Katie and Sarah
It was Adrian Segar who got me thinking. Last summer, Adrian used Google+ Hangouts on Air to easily and inexpensively stream video of a keynote speaker at edAccess 2012. I read about it on his Conferences That Work blog, and … Continue reading
