On-line brainstorming in a nutshell on Vimeo. Synthetron helps you take better decisions and implement faster. If you want to know how this online brainstorming tool works, have a look the following video. Maarten Vanneste demostrates it with a "fruit vase".

With all the advancements in society and research on how the brain works, why is it that most conference education still provides talking heads and passive listeners? Is that best for your attendees? You can see the PowerPoint from a short 12-minute TED-style presentation in the following website:

Long ago we had meetings around a campfire. A small group of people in a circle, listening to stories, debating, conversing, learning from each other.
Much later, in more recent ages, only the rich and powerful could talk to larger groups, armies and other audiences.
And even more recently, thanks to sound equipment, we all can afford to address a public, larger than the campfire crowd.

When was the last time you ordered something in a restaurant and the wait staff brought you the wrong dish? Go ahead and think about that for a minute. You’re probably thinking, “Uh-h, when was the last time that happened? Where was I?”

John Nawn helps in designing creative and innovative meeting formats for higher effectiveness. He is a speaker on the topic of Meeting design.

Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the participant first hears the name of the object.

Michael J. Shapiro July 21, 2010 Communications technology giant Cisco has officially introduced Collaboration for Events, a suite of tech tools that facilitate virtual and in-person/virtual hybrid collaboration.

MYROI, a confidential, post-event report detailing the results of an educational experience including application of an attendee's learning to their job, impacts of post-event job achievement and an individual ROI computation, will be introduced to Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) World Education Conference (WEC) registrants this July by MeetingMetrics

ROI Week for Meetings and Events September 2010 on Vimeo.