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Meeting Architect's sessions at MPI's WEC

11 Jul 2009 - 00:00
14 Jul 2009 - 00:00
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Website: 
http://www.mpiweb.org/Events/WEC2009.aspx
Location: 
Salt Lake City USA
Registration: 
http://www.mpiweb.org/Events/WEC2009/GeneralInformation/RegisterNow.aspx

At the WEC MPI has organised a track called "Meeting Design".
This is the track I would recommend for Meeting Architects, meeting designers, producers etc.
The list below shows you the selection we made for future meeting architects.

ALSO YOUR ATTENTION FOR:
- one session with Ib Ravn on Tuesday
- a dinner with meeting Architecture friends
- academics gathering with MPI
- ...

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Meeting Design summer course

19 Aug 2009 - 10:00
21 Aug 2009 - 17:30
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Website: 
http://www.meetingarchitecture-education.org/
Location: 
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Napoli-Caserta, Italy
Registration: 
eric@mindmeeting.org or http://www.meetingarchitecture-education.org/
Meeting Architecture is gaining momentum and there are good reasons why this is so. One is that organisations want meetings to be more effective, especially in the current financial crisis, when everybody is cutting costs. Good Meeting Design contributes to meeting effectiveness, which is why the new profession of Meeting Architect deserves all the educational attention it needs. A perfect moment, therefore, to organise the first-ever multi-day training in Meeting Architecture: a short and effective summer course, centred around the current state of play and future developments in Meeting Architecture.

ROI WEEK: Meeting Architecture and more and the 5-Day ROI Certification Course

31 Aug 2009 - 00:00
4 Sep 2009 - 23:59
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Website: 
http://www.eventroi.org/
Location: 
Dublin, Radisson Blu St. Helens Hotel
Registration: 
http://www.eventroi.org/

ROI Week 31 August - 4 September, Dublin

Alongside this years 5-day ROI Certification Course we are offering a 2-day ROI Basics course and several courses in special ROI skills such as survey design and ROI forecasting.

We are also very excited to be launching SenseiROI for meetings and events, an online tool which takes all the hard work out of ROI evaluation.

ROI Week also includes a 2-day course in Meeting Architecture.

The venue is Radisson Blu St. Helens Hotel, a beautiful 250 year old mansion just 5 km from Dublin city centre and 16 km from the airport.

Go HERE for more information

Resource website for the meetings industry

Posted December 23rd, 2008 by Anonymous
Welcome to the Meeting Support Institute website where meeting objectives and participant experience are central. 
Thanks to our members and sponsors we are able to build a knowledge base about science, technology and other tools to improve Learning, Networking and Motivational objectives at meetings.
Your input is welcome and you may also subscribe to feeds & newsletters.
Get our bi monthly updates simply by registering here which takes less than 1 minute.

Scientists learn how food affects the brain

Posted July 1st, 2009 by maarten.vanneste
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Publication Date: 
2008-07-09
In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders.
"Food is like a pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain," said Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological science who has spent years studying the effects of food, exercise and sleep on the brain. "Diet, exercise and sleep have the potential to alter our brain health and mental function. This raises the exciting possibility that changes in diet are a viable strategy for enhancing cognitive abilities, protecting the brain from damage and counteracting the effects of aging."

Gómez-Pinilla analyzed more than 160 studies about food's affect on the brain; the results of his analysis appear in the July issue of the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience and are available online at www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v9/n7/abs/nrn2421.html.
Call contact person: 
+1 (310) 206-0511

instructionaldesign.org

Posted July 1st, 2009 by maarten.vanneste
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This site is designed to provide information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. Instructional design, also know as instructional systems design, is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of instruction. Instructional designers often use instructional technology or educational technology as tools for developing instruction. Instructional design models typically specify a method, that if followed will facilitate the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitude to the recipient or acquirer of the instruction. Obviously paying attention to "best practices", and innovative teaching methods will make any instructional design model more effective.

Today I saw a man cry.

Posted June 29th, 2009 by maarten.vanneste
Today I saw a man cry.
He lost 80% of his 2009 business because of perception based postponing. He had to let go more than half his team… Clients that worked with him for a decade or so just dropped him and his entire team like a useless piece of debris.
His 20 year passion died with the brutality and senselessness of the cancelations.
“Sorry” sais the client, “we will be back next year” as he cancelled two of my friends biggest conferences. But will the client find his supplier back, next year? A broken man, symbol of a broken industry, may find new purpose in his life. The pain of getting branded “useless in 2009” and the unbearable task of firing friends in a small team is not easily forgotten.
How much talent is wasted? How many great staff have we lost forever? How big is the mental damage to the meeting industry? And how long will it take to get back on track?

Facilitating Virtual Collaboration

18 Sep 2009 - 00:00
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Website: 
http://www.change-management-blog.com/2009/06/facilitating-virtual-colla...
Location: 
Keble College Oxford
Registration: 
http://facilitatingvirtualcollaboration.eventbrite.com/
Virtual collaboration tools have mushroomed and matured at the same time. There are thousands of tools and platforms such as online conference systems, blogs, wikis, chat rooms, forums, social networks, social bookmarking sites, files sharing, etc., which allow small and big groups to work together for a common goal. Many profit and non-profit organizations are using such tools for communication and collaboration with their internal and external stakeholders. In the future, most workshops, seminars, conferences will have a virtual component. Other events will be entirely online. Besides real-time events, the demand for facilitation of asynchronous processes of organizational development is high.

We offer you a practice oriented seminar to upgrade your skills for navigation and communication in the virtual world.

Objectives:
The participants, upon finishing the session, will be able to

Free copy of 'Meeting Architecture' at MPI’s WEC09 sponsored by Spotme.

Posted June 25th, 2009 by maarten.vanneste
The session ‘Meeting Architecture Process’ on Monday, July 13, 2009 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM will be an eye opener for tools and techniques that will help meeting planners and meeting owners generate more value. This session will introduce MAP™ as a standard operating process for managing the content side of meetings based on objectives.

Thanks to the generous support of Spotme, participants of this session will receive a free copy of the book ‘Meeting Architecture, a manifesto’ by Maarten Vanneste, CMM.

MPI World Education Congress, Salt lake City, Utah. July 12 – 14, 2009.

See http://www.mpiweb.org/Events/WEC2009/Sessions/KnowledgeTracks/Detail.asp...

Do the ‘Freudian walk’

Posted June 21st, 2009 by maarten.vanneste
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Freud has lost some of his influence in the psychiatrist’s office. Psychoanalysis, the technique of probing long and deep into the mind of a patient is no longer used in up to date practice. It used to be the system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders. These days new techniques have replaced the old one. Patients now hear they have to stop complaining and start running, or do other physical activities. They are told to leave the past behind and to get going with their lives. No more endless sessions of soul searching on the couch.

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