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October 2007 Meeting Planner News |
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The EIBTM WorldWide Technology Watch is awarded to... the new SPOTME The innovative European technology of the new SPOTME impresses the judging panel. This product scored highly at all three criteria: innovation, completeness of concept, and value for the users at events. The second generation of SPOTME is displayed at the Technology village at EIBTM, on stand number O513 / O514. |
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September 2007 Meeting Planner News |
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Dear meeting planner, meeting owner, The new season is taking all of us full speed ahead! Does this get in the way for us to look for new things and ideas that will enhance value of our work? Isn’t that what we as professionals should do on an ongoing basis? Find the latest and the best for increasing the results of our meetings? I for one find it hard to keep up to date and reading the Meeting Support Institute newsletter is certainly a shortcut to some real innovative tools, and advanced thinking. Much more study is needed in the low season, but for now the to-the-point topics listed in this e-mail at least give you some introduction to change, innovation, technology that may become crucial for your influence in your future projects. All the best, Maarten Vanneste, CMM |
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First ever wikiworkshop Today, 12 September 2007, the management of the Holiday Inn Brussels airport decided to use the WikiWorkshops.com format for their upcoming advisory board. This groundbreaking format will drive the key objectives of the meeting in different ways and on many levels. WikkiWorkshops is a simple format and a paradigm shift; it fits the goals of this exciting project, wonderfully well. |
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ASIC 2007 (Associations, Societies and Institutes Conference) Maarten Vanneste, founder of MSI, and Elling Hamso, Board of MSI, both spoke at this conference in London. Did you miss it? No problem, you can listen to their sessions online: http://www.minutestar.com/ASIC07/Maarten_Vanneste/player.html http://www.minutestar.com/ASIC07/Maarten_Vanneste2/player.html
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Meeting Support tools: CHATTY tools When we say tools, we mean "anything we can do for or bring to" the meeting to influence the content side of it (learning, networking, motivation). |
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Music in Meetings by Caroline van Niekerk Music’s power has been recognised and documented since before the time of the Ancient Greeks. The power of face-to-face meetings, as opposed to other means of communication - even aided by batteries of technological developments – is also widely accepted. So towards the goal of efficient and effective meetings – why not judiciously use music? |
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Organise the first joint conference about technology and Meeting Support Last week the first official conference call took place between Eventia en MSI. The topic was the upcoming conference. The agreement is to organize it around midweek in the second half of January 2008 in an innovative venue in central London. The MSI members will be exclusive in some instances and get serious discount rates in others. MSI will build the program and provide the content plus some members will be allowed to sponsor meeting support for use at the conference. |
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Mix In Music by Lenn Millbower, The Learnertainment® Trainer Meeting planners are starting to think more and more about the importance of using music in meetings. This is not strange since people spend more money on music than on books, and music stars become our idols and companions. |
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Brainstorming session with 10.000 people Philips recently developed an original way of brainstorming with its employees and at the same time it organized a unique and unequalled meeting. It is fun to brainstorm with ten to twenty people. Philips organized a session with ten thousand people at the same time, spread over 67 locations all over the world. Last year Philips bought Avent, the brand that is known by their baby products. A large assortment, but probably not yet complete. So Philips thought of a brainstorm session with a divers group of experts; parents, uncles, antes but also people without children. All of them working at Philips. The session started in Asia and went around the world in 24 hours. At every location, they worked in a similar way; groups of 12 people. Stefan Verhoeven, leader of the division domestic devices in the Netherlands, didn’t want to tell a lot about what was conceived. “But you could see that they paid a lot of attention to health and safety.” Source: CongresWereld / Nederlands Dagblad |
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| 2 | FIRST PRESENTATION BY A MEMBER Paula Crerar (nTag) speaks at Employee Involvement Association Paula Crerar from nTag has accepted to do a 90 minute presentation for the Employee Involvement Association. Certainly an area in which meetings and meeting support can play a role. Paula will focus on the WEB 2.0 as a theme and she will introduce the MSI and its members. The Audience are mostly HR people for corporations and that is clearly and audience that organizes lots of meetings and conferences as well.
Obviously Meeting support has a lot to do with the participation of the participants (what’s in a name) in many conferences. Look at the Learning Meetings from Ib Ravn, tools like Crystal Interactive, Synthetron, Badge2Match etc. All these have a supporting roll in the collaboration, the participation at conferences. Formats like Open Space and WikkiWorkshops all create an environment of participation. |
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IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation by Sandy Schuman Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation. This handbook offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by 50 leading practitioners and scholars. It includes successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups. IAF is the International Association of Facilitators |
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July - August 2007 Meeting Planner News |
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Lost memories Lost memories are not always totally lost. "Nature" published a study that showed recovery of lost memories through medication... Will the meeting participant in stead of little mints, find complimentary learning stimulating medication on the table in the meeting room? |
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Sleeping improves memory A growing consensus emerges around the hypothesis that during sleep, our brain actively organises and efficiently stores the information gathered during the day. Sleep gives the brain time to analyse quietly without any new incoming sensations... Is it of influence in learning to organise late night activities at conferences and meetings? Is is good to start conference activities very early? Or should we make sure our delegates get enough sleep? |
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Vision: Recommended Futurelab’s bi-annual magazine "Vision" offers possible visions of the future of learning with digital technologies and other innovative resources. This magazine focuses on education, but most of the information can be used in meetings. You just have to replace the word student by delegate and teacher by meeting planner. |
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Badge2Match: interactive Radio Frequency conference pass that enhances networking during an event |
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ROI evaluation in Europe The Meeting Support Institute works closely with the European Event ROI Institute. Our first Meeting Content Conference has been evaluated by Elling Hamso, also member of our Advisory Board. The course covers all aspects and levels of event evaluation, from the simple satisfaction surveys that you do for every event, to the complete financial ROI impact study which you may want to do for large and expensive events. |
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Mapping the Future of Onsite Learning MPI wrote a paper after the Professional Education Conference-Europe this year. Much of the breakthrough knowledge at the PEC-Europe focused on the Learning Meeting—on how adults learn, and what meeting professionals can do to maximize the learning experience at every event they touch. |
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Printed signage now touch sensitive and with printed loudspeaker Imagine a sign at a conference that tells you more when you touch the play button? It exists. A touch sensitive pattern for buttons, icons or images is printed over the print on your signs. A flat loudspeaker is integrated in the paper so the paper now talks to you if you touch it. |
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Tips for Innovative Meetings and Events (T.I.M.E.) Sue Tinnish writes a monthly e-newsletter. Her June issue about Visual Communication has a lot of interesting information and can be used by Meeting architects. |
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May - June 2007 Improving a meeting’s turnout |
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Dear reader,
Our first conference ‘the Meeting Content Conference’ was a success. The many positive reactions were heart warming and the support for the next one was overwhelming. The ICCA representative said “we must come with more participants next time”. This is what we all want to realise, making meetings more successful in its end results. To go beyond a great and fun experience by adding value on the meeting content side, increasing the ROI. Feel free to forward this newsletter and feel free let us know your ideas or discoveries. There must be a few tools or service companies out there that we don’t know of. We want to hear from you about anything that has an impact on the content side; all professionals that help improving a meeting’s turnout. With kind regards,
Maarten Vanneste, CMM |
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| 9 | PRESENTATION Eventia Summer Conference On July 1-3 2007 Eventia will organise their Summer conference in Old Windsor (nearby London). The Meeting Support Institute has a 60 min presentation to explain the Meeting Support Matrix and explain the latest technology trends. You can still register for this event at www.eventia.org.uk |
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| 8 | PRESENTATION ASIC (Associations, Societies and Institutes Conference) Another presentation will be held in London on July 5th. The ASI Conference addresses the key issues of raising value for members, increasing delegates , and harnessing more revenue from education and networking, via training and conferences. The Meeting Support Institute has 2 sessions of 45 min to present: "How to increase Delegate Value in Conferences & Meetings with Technology" For more information and regsitration: www.associationresource.org |
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| 7 | OUR CONFERENCE Presentations Online For those who missed our first Meeting Content Conference or people who are interested in the other presentations : PowerPoint and audio from the sessions are online, together with the voting results and the Q&A notes. "I look forward to seeing the other presentations online because it was so hard to decide what to miss out on the day!" says Marilyn Devonish from Transfromations. |
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| 6 | ROI RESULTS What people said about our conference The first Meeting Content Conference has been evaluated by the European Event ROI Institute for attendee satisfaction and intended actions (Level 1 of the 5 ROI measuring levels) and learning (Level 2). A further evaluation is planned in August where participants will be asked to report on how the conference has actually had an impact on their work behaviour (Level 3). The participants were overall very satisfied, 94% said the conference was ‘good’ or ‘very good’. Here are some participants’ comments: I would like to certify my 80 account managers as meeting architects. Thank you for an inspiring day in Frankfurt! Very inspiring for me and certainly left me hungry for more!! Thank you for a most stimulating time! |
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| 5 | TRAINING Meeting Support Manager Course For more information, contact the training manager from Abbit: paul.vanherck@abbit.eu |
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| 4 | PRODUCT New application with Shocklogic software As an important step into markets such as Russia, China, Japan and Korea, Shocklogic has implemented full multi-character set support in its event management systems. Shocklogic’s applications take this design approach all the way to the database level, meaning that integration with – for example – office systems (Microsoft and others) will be done without character conversion, thereby ensuring full interoperability in existing environments and no changes to existing software, hardware or operating systems. This new functionality places Shocklogic’s applications in a class of their own in the field of international event management software, says Johan Martinez, a member of the Meeting Support Institute. |
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| 3 | NEW PRODUCT SpotMe reinvents itself Shockfish SA, the creator of Spotme announced that it will launch a new and improved Spotme service for the global meetings industry. The new Spotme will first be used at meetings in Europe, China, and Singapore this June. The new service features state-of-the-art wireless handheld devices with an RFID card reader, positioning technology for networking, color screen, keyboard, and a wireless microphone and speaker. |
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| 2 | PAPER The potential power of music in meetings After speaking at our conference, Professor Caroline van Niekerk wrote a paper on the power of music in meetings. Music’s power has been both recognised and documented since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Why, therefore, is music not extensively used before, during and after meetings? This paper explores the effects which music, from a wide variety of genres, can have in context such as meetings. |
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| 1 | OUR CONFERENCE Called "groundbreaking" On Friday 20 April in Frankfurt, the meetings industry took a small step toward changing the way meeting content is created and delivered. This first ever Meeting Content Conference, sponsored by IMEX and OptionFinder Europe was called a ‘groundbreaking and historic’ conference by some senior industry people. Ib Ravn said: " The conference was a first: Put on by one of the most serious meeting outfits in Europe, to address a topic that will be of primary concern in tomorrow's meeting industry: How can we professionalize the structure and processes of meetings to make them effective forums for knowledge sharing, learning and concrete results?" "I'm not surprised it went so well - someone seriously addressing content at last!" - Damian Hutt, Compelling Conferences "I could not stay till the end but i found it very thought provoking and will certainly be recommending it for next year" – Mark Charles Felstead, Axica |
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March 2007 MEETING PLANNER NEWS |
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Dear meeting planner, Let me remind you that registration of the Meeting Content Conference can still be done. 2006 promises to be a great year for the Meeting Support Institute. Membership keeps growing and it becomes clearer what our mission is in this great industry. "One doesn't know what one doesn't know" goes the saying and I humbly agree. I'm just back from an amazing PEC-E in Copenhagen (MPI's European conference) and I did learn a thing or two there... It is amazing to see how the interest from our industry is increasing for the content side of meetings; the things that we organise meetings for: learning, networking and motivation of participants. I had the distinct honour to see Ib Ravn in action after seeing him 3 years ago at the Brussels Meeting Support Day in 2004. His book, recently translated in English is a stepping stone for our industry towards growing the content side of meetings (more below). I was proud to be invited to speak, later this year, at a conference of professors in Meeting Management from universities all over Europe. I will, as you can assume, be more than glad to introduce this elite group to the Meeting Support Concept and the idea of a new profession: the Meeting Content Manager, preferably Certified. Good news for meeting planners, producers, PCO's and others meeting designers is that our members are growing and evolving with the Meeting Support Institute as a catalyst. Already a second strategic partnership was announced, this time at Confex between two MSI members. The IMEX group stand is bundling a great set of innovations, the knowledge base on our website keeps adding great thing to discover, members and academics share research reports with us and much more. If you have read until her, I'm sure you will enjoy the newsletter below. Kind regards, Maarten Vanneste President Meeting Support Institute
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| 10 | OUR CONFERENCE Inaugural Meeting Content Conference On Friday, April 20th, 2007, the day after IMEX, this first-of-its-kind conference will be held in the Maritim hotel in Frankfurt. Our Meeting Content Conference will totally focus on the key objectives of meetings and how to influence those and improve meeting results. We have assembled a number of high level speakers on very diverse topics that are new and innovative. A must for all planners, pco's, production companies that want to be ahead in building successful meetings, above and beyond the meeting logistics. Register Now
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| 8 | TRADESHOW IMEX 2007 This year you will again be able to see about 15 of our members at and around the IMEX TechTap. In a short tour, Ilse Matthé will show you around and point out the participants key products and features. The meeting Support Zone is growing, also because our members are increasingly taking their own stand after the generous support they got from IMEX via the MSI group stand "TechTap". We hope to see you there and if you take the time to look around, you will discover amazing tools you have never seen before. Pictures of 2006 / more information on our stand here.
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| 7 | KNOWLEDGE BASE Research & Thesis idea bank All books, associations, research in this newsletter is assembled in our knowledge base on www.meetingsupport.org. We have just added a section where we collect ideas and suggestions for students that want to write a thesis or even build a PhD. If you have any ideas you wish to share, send them to maarten.vanneste@meetingsupport.org |
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| 6 | ASSOCIATION If you feel meetings are great events to develop employee empowerment, there is an association you may be interested in. The Employee Involvement Association is an internationally recognized organization serving professional managers and administrators of employee involvement and suggestion programs for over 64 years (in 2007) by providing quality educational programs, publications, benchmarking and networking opportunities. Our members are leaders in ideas and suggestion systems. Employee Involvement is the keystone of organizational development, nurturing the empowerment of people.
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| 5 | RESEARCH Crystal Interactive research report The Human Touch If you have missed the Human Touch report do take a look at www.crystal-interactive.co.uk. It provides some real food for thought in terms of the role communications plays in successful organisations. It proves that companies who interact with their employees are rewarded with greater loyalty, less churn and an employee base that is 8 times as likely to come up with business winning ideas.
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| 4 | NEW NETWORKING MEMBER Matchmaking in cooperation with Deutsche Messe AG at CeBit Supply and demand sides are brought together at the business matchmaking event for IT outsourcing. By entering your profile you make it possible for other participants to identify you as a possible partner. The profiles will be used to create a catalogue of supply and demand enabling participants to choose which partners to meet with during the event. More information about the system during CeBit on the website of ConVerve. |
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| 3 | BOOK Each of the seven 'rules' helps you explore a crucial element of conference design. By using the rules to prompt new ideas, you can create learning objectives that link to the bottom line of your organization. It will help you make decisions such as: is a keynote speaker better than a brainstorming session involving all participants that generates hundreds of ideas? The answer depends on your learning objectives…and this is the reason why creating a learning strategy is so important.
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| 2 | BOOK This new guide to measurement and evaluation includes chapters on meeting alignment, setting objectives, collecting data, analyzing data, and reporting results with up to seven types of data. Detailed case studies explain how measurement and evaluation have been used by meeting professionals to prove the value of their events—to the level demanded in the industry today. (MSI member nTAG provided a case study on event ROI measurement for this book, authored by the experts in return on investment analysis.)
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| 1 | 4 NEW MEMBERS Covr: www.covr.be Software for Associations, and abstract handling conference services. Eventsforce: www.eventsforce.co.uk Event management software Converve: www.converve.de On-line networking tool for meetings WorldPresenter: www.worldpresenter.com Recording of presentation for on-line education |
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January 2007 MEETING PLANNER NEWS |
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Dear meeting professional, First of all a happy New Year! It's also a pleasure to announce a new member and a few dates (see below) where you can learn more about meeting content management and meeting support.
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KNOWLEDGE BASE The Knowledge base is growing We have an abstract on a paper of Ib Ravn and Steen Elsborg, Learning Lab Denmark, The Danish University of Education, Copenhagen: "Creating learning at conferences through participant involvement" And an abstract for a presentation by prof Caroline van Niekerk University of Pretoria, South Africa. "The potential power of music in meetings" click here |
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ACTIVITIES Learn more about Meeting Support We will organise a Learning Lab at the MPI-NL Conference in Bussum, Netherlands on February 2nd. On February 7th Maarten Vanneste will speak about "Meeting Technology for incentives" in Athens, Greece. Come and visit our group stand at the EMIF trade show in Brussels on February 14 & 15 - booth number 160. Another Learning Lab will be held on 18 - 20 March at MPI's PEC-E in Copenhagen, Denmark. On April 16 - 18 we will have a group stand at the IMEX trade show in Frankfurt, Germany. Do you want to visit the trade show? Or do you think you would qualify for the hosted buyer programme? Click HERE for more information . |
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NEW WORD "Interactivist" A new breed of meeting participants. Word invented by Toney Carrey. The interactivist is a meeting participant that demands interactivity. It is a young, computer savvy dynamic person that is born with a mobile phone.
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NEW MEMBER Log On John Dudink for the Netherlands is the award winner at the EIBTM WorldWide Technology Watch 2006 (WWTW). More information on the competition, click HERE.
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TRADE SHOW Meetings Technology Expo The Meetings Technology Expo took place in New York City on October 26th with aline-up of technology, education and solutions geared specifically for the meeting professional. We did not have a stand this year, but some of our members are exhibiting (n-Tag, DMD Associates ). Check it out and let us know if you think it looks interesting. The next Meetings Technology Expo will be held in Chicago, May 2007. You can find more information on both trade shows www.meetingstechexpo.com |
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NEW BOOK Let's Connect! "Let's Connect!" is a practical guide for networking on events and on the web for every professional whether you're in sales or not. You will get insights in the dynamics of networking and how to network more effectively, efficiently and with more fun! Ask your FREE light version of the book and read chapter 5. Jan also wrote a special article for the MSI that talks to meeting professionals. |
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November 2006 Second general Newsletter |
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| 8 | NEW STAFF Welcome to Terje Skjaeveland Terje who is a 24 year old Norwegian started on September first. He will help Ilse Matthé in the day-to-day issues of the MSI. Terje will mainly concentrate on the content side of our association and Ilse on the commercial side. Our website will be put into shape and the most exciting project on his long list is an automated gap analysis and advisory system for meetings. |
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| 7 | TRADESHOWS MSI presence at EIBTM MSI will be present at EIBTM in Barcelona in November. We hope to have a few members participating besides our MSI stand. Get to know the MSI team and become more knowledgeable about the latest tools to improve your meeting for learning, networking or motivation. |
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| 6 | MEMBER NEWS Elling Hamso nr 5 in top 50 list of influential people in our industry. Elling Hamso from Norway, a board member from the Meeting Support Institute, was elected the 5th most influential person in the MICE industry by M&IT magazine. As a thinker, speaker and walking knowledge base on ROI in events and meetings he is a great resource and helps the industry to move forward. As founder of the Event ROI Institute he demonstrates his commitment to this industry. |
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| 5 | MEMBERNEWS Steven Simmons wins big MPI award Steven Simmons, a member of the Meeting Support Institute, is the recipient of the Award of Excellence from MPI. During the 2006 WEC conference from MPI in Dallas, Texas. Steven Simmons (picture) became the proud owner of one of MPI's most prestigious awards. Their outstanding work for the Super Bowl XL Opening Ceremony made them eligible for this quality label. Congratulations Steven. www.stagingoptics.com |
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| 4 | MEDIA NEWS Meetings International in Sweden supports MSI Roger Kellerman From the Swedish magazine Meetings International supports the MSI by putting its logo on the homepage of this web site www.meetingsinternational.se . The brand new English web site will also have the MSI logo on a prominent position. |
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| 3 | TRADESHOWS The motivation Show in Chicago reserves space for the MSI A 10'X10' stand space is reserved for the MSI on Chicago's trade show: The motivation Show. Taking place on September 26-28. We hope to meet many meeting planners and share our goals and objectives as well as our member information. Come and visit us! |
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| 2 | MEDIA NEWS Quality in Meetings dedicates one page to the Meeting support institute Eric De Ridder from QM pledges one page in each European magazine to the MSI. Twice a year the European QM and 4 times a year in Meeting Europe (the EU magazine from MPI).Also the bi-weekly e-newsletter gets an MSI banner with web link. This kind of media support is what we need to generate enough information and exposure to meeting support. With more of such support, the Meeting Support Institute will become a project that impacts the industry. We only need to find members to contribute educational written pieces. |
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| 1 | Meeting Support Education report The Pharmaceutical Meeting Planner Forum Our 3hour workshop, by Alex Lomax and Maarten Vanneste was a success: A total of 59 participants joined our session that was supported with a collaboration system from Crystal Interactive and a voting system by Abbit Meeting Support. More can be found on our web sites in Past events. Also have a look at the results of the voting. |
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June 2006 First Newsletter |
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Dear reader, The Meeting Support Institute was founded on January 2006 and it has been hectic ever since. Our membership is growing, the number of events increase, the website grows, speaking opportunities increase, this first newsletter, our knowledge base started, ... It is good to have Ilse Matthé on board as our first staff member. Without her we would not be able to do this. We are looking forward to hire a second staff member in a few months. Staff and expenses for them, will be the bulk of our financial balance so you can imagine we need more than 20 members. By the end of 2006, we aim for 50 in our business plan and it looks feasible still. To all companies with a Meeting Support tool “We want you on board as a member!” To our current members: “Thank you for your trust and early support!”
Kind regards, Maarten Vanneste president Meeting Support Institute
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Meeting Support Institute NEWS Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum The Meeting Support Institute is presenting a pre-conference workshop on “Impact Meeting ROI Through Meeting Support Strategies” at the Inaugural European Meeting Planners Forum in London 26 - 27 June. All our members will be presented to the audience of about 40 to date. |
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MICE ASSOCIATION NEWS ICCA invites our members to Rhodes Martin Sirk from ICCA invites all members of the Meeting Support Institute to the ICCA conference on Rhodes this year. Meeting Support Institute members would pay the Observer Rate. For the first time in the history of the ICCA Congress you will be treated to different Greek themes each day, inspired by the long history of the Island of Rhodes. Members can Contact Martin Sirk, CEO of ICCA, direct on m.sirk@icca.nl |
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Education NEWS Association day Frankfurt The association day in Frankfurt is organized by IMEX since a few Years. This year for the first time the IT Lab took place, an idea from Robin Lokerman MCI. The Meeting support was represented by Ilse Matthé and Maarten Vanneste was asked to introduce the sessions. A good debriefing was held and a few ideas for new year launched. Pictures & more on www.meetingsupport.org |
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Trade show NEWS IMEX Frankfurt, a great success. + 5 new members 11 booths at the MSI group stand; TECH TAP were this year positioned together with 5 other booths with Meeting Support companies, creating the first ever "meeting support zone". This is what one participant wrote: Dear Ilse, I would like to thank you and your team for the great support we have received before and during IMEX.Your extensive effort and timeless help was of a big asset to us. We are very happy to be member of the Meeting Support Institute and we look forward to many more successful exhibitions. Eveni AG Pictures & more on www.meetingsupport.org |
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Meeting Support Institute NEWS OUR FIRST AWARD The Vele d’oro prize is an award for innovation in the meetings industry. |
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Meeting Support Institute NEWS KNOWLEDGE BASE On our web site www.meetingsupport.org you can find a link to KNOWLEDGE BASE. This is going to be an important section of our web site. Here we are gathering all relevant knowledge about meeting support. We publish information or links to books, articles, academics, research projects, speakers, courses etc. The goal is to build a comprehensive core base of knowledge for our industry. Based on that in 2007 start publishing and more importantly a certification in Meeting Support Management. CMSM. Please send all your input (books, names, institutions etc.) to Maarten.vanneste@abbit.be
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Knowledge Base NEWS WAINHOUSE RESEARCH EUROPEAN FORUM 2006 Invited by Sonic Foundry, (Member of the Meeting Support Institute), Maarten Vanneste went to the Wainhouse Research Forum in Berlin, Germany. A day on research and innovation for corporate and remote participant meetings aka Virtual Meetings. It was an eye opener to see what is coming our way. One speaker managed to predict that "in 2020, only the happy few and the brave will travel to meetings." Food for thought! |
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MEMEBER NEWS A Sneak Peek at the nTAG System Version 2 and the nTAG Wave the nTAG System Version 2 is a revolutionary new solution for the event industry. "Our primary goal is to help customers drive event activities towards their corporate objectives" says nTAG CEO, David Goretski. "With the nTAG System Version 2, we've combined even more real–time functionality with a wearable device that is lighter, easy to use, and has more features for attendees and meeting professionals." |
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MEDIA NEWS Belgium RendEvenement publishes article on Meeting Support In a follow up on an article on ROI by Elling Hamso, RendEvenement, the Belgian Magazine RendEvenement will have an interview with Maarten Vanneste, president of MSI on the different methods and tools to improve ROI in meetings. All members will be discussed and members are therefore encouraged to send in their most recent news in 256 characters. |
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Meeting Support Institute NEWS NEW NEWSLETTER As you can see, we started our Meeting Support Institute newsletter. The goal is to collect short news items from the association, its members and others. It is Public news, so we aim at sending it to meeting planners and Media as well as our membership. Members are welcome to send in all the news they have in a 500 character text + picture + link (phone, e-mail or web link). The newsletter will be on our website until we have 7 or more articles. Then we will send it to our database and start a new one. |
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