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Knowledge…you’ve come a long way, baby!
Do conference sessions have to be serious to be authoritative? There was a time when the wisdom was that a speaker should start with a joke to relax his (invariably his) audience. Thereafter,...
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Re-envisage event technology to significantly improve your events
Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors. —Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations I feel...
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Drive-by experts at your conference
“It’s been clear from the beginning of the Web that it gives us access to experts on topics we never even thought of. As the Web has become more social, and as conversations have become scaled up,...
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Meetings are a mess—and how they got that way
“Things are the way they are because they got that way.” —Quip attributed to Kenneth Boulding The hundreds-of-years-dominant paradigm for sessions, conferences, and meetings is broadcast: most of the...
View ArticleParallels between the evolution of journalism and events
There are fascinating parallels in the ways that journalism and events are evolving. Listen to the first minute of this interview of journalism maverick Jeff Jarvis by David Weinberger. Here’s the...
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