May 2013
CONVENE IS TWEETING ABOUT MEETINGS
- 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
http://t.co/HF4Qn6SkvDby HootSuite - RT @sarahconvene: 4 amazing events designed by the great @davidstarkinc: #wow #eventprofs #pcma
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- What's Love Got to Do With Networking? #eventprofs #pcma
Tag Archives: Convene Reads
Convene Reads: The Facebook Effect
There’s no way that a book about social networking and technology and social-networking technology wouldn’t unfold in and around a bunch of meetings, and, boy, is The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, by … Continue reading
Convene Reads: “Inside the Secret Service”
Believe it or not, this guy works the reg desk. One of the consistent themes we’ve explored on this blog, as well as in the pages of Convene, is the fact that, pretty much everyone who does anything attends meetings. … Continue reading
Convene Reads: This Republic of Suffering
In This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust explores how the deaths of more than six hundred thousand Union and Confederate soldiers over the course of four years changed the United States — in … Continue reading
Convene Reads: The Sherlockian
The Sherlockian, by Graham Moore, uses meetings as a springboard, launching its fun, clever plot with the murder of the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes scholar in his New York City hotel room during a conference of the Baker Street Irregulars … Continue reading
Convene Reads: War
Meetings and conferences have always played a key role in the world of warfare — from planning battles to negotiating peace treaties — but, still, it’s a little jarring to see one pop up in the middle of Sebastian Junger’s … Continue reading
Convene Reads: The Wave
* This photo, of Tahiti’s Teahupoo wave, is courtesy of Duncan Rawlinson I’ve been meaning to write a new post for a while now, as I’ve been reading (and am now nearly finished with) this great book called The Wave: … Continue reading
Convene Reads: The Passage
We already know, from a previous Convene Reads item, that meetings will be a part of our (fictional) dystopian future. Now we have evidence that meetings will be a part of our (fictional) post-apocalpytic future, thanks to The Passage, by … Continue reading
Convene Reads: The Big Short
Don’t read The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis, if you’re trying to keep your blood pressure down, because what this book makes clear about the economic meltdown of 2007-2008 is that it was triggered by Wall … Continue reading
Convene Reads: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
You don’t have to look hard to find meetings all over a book like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, a graceful and absorbing biography of both a woman and the “immortal” cell line – the first … Continue reading
Convene Reads: Last Call
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, by Daniel Okrent, is one of those great books that’s about so much more than its ostensible subject. In telling the story of the Eighteenth Amendment — which from 1920 until it … Continue reading
