April 2013
CONVENE IS TWEETING ABOUT MEETINGS
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Unplugged and Off the Grid
When is it time to unplug? Yesterday morning my wife wanted to celebrate Mother’s Day with a few hours of quiet, undemanding family time, so we took our two daughters to Great Falls Park, which straddles the Potomac River in … Continue reading
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Breaking the Ice at The Broadmoor
Yesterday morning, as part of a media trip sponsored by The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, I played foosball. With my whole body. While touring Broadmoor Hall, part of the resort’s extensive meeting and event facilities, we walked into Broadmoor A … Continue reading
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Google Hangouts Just Got Serious
While Google Hangouts may have gotten serious the moment President Obama used the program, or maybe when major media outlets started to broadcast interviews via Google Hangouts, now its gotten even more professional with HangoutMagix. Our team at Convene has … Continue reading
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Houston, We Do Not Have a Problem
There are no new ideas, at least not in my head this beautiful Friday afternoon. Last night my wife and I attended a reception at the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC, hosted by the Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau … Continue reading
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Planners Provide the Plot, Attendees Shape the Story
Recently, I had a phone interview with Storify Co-Founder Burt Herman while he was attending the 2013 South by Southwest Festival, held in Austin March 8–17. Wandering through thousands of festival-goers, he explained how much “noise” can be created on … Continue reading
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The Magic of Live Experience
Do we spend enough time talking about a meeting as a live experience? Not as a face-to-face experience, but as a unique, one-time-only production? I don’t know that we do. And we should. A good meeting is a sort of … Continue reading
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The Crystal/Corbin Ball
Technology + meetings industry + expert = Corbin Ball. That’s been a proven formula for the past 15 years that Corbin has devoted himself full-time to meetings technology. In this video interview with James Latham of International Meetings Review — … Continue reading
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Awesome Con, an Awesome Con
Ask me what I did this past weekend. Go ahead, ask me. I helped launch a new convention! Not that I planned, organized, or staffed it — but I showed up, paid to get in, spent a lot of time … Continue reading
It Turns Out Love Does Have a Lot to Do With It
When I read a review of the recently published book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become by Barbara Fredrickson, two things came to mind. One was that I was delighted to see that the … Continue reading
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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