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research idea: STORY TELLING IN MEETINGS

Posted February 20th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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Story telling is a powerful tool for presentations but underdeveloped and not enough used in the meetings industry.
  • Are there specialists?
  • Is there a book about storytelling?
  • Do you know a storytelling association or Institute?
  • Who is PhD in storytelling?
Researching, listing, analyzing and classifying the existing storytelling components aimed at presentations in meetings, events, conferences, etc. has not been done.

Face Time, does it really matter?

Posted February 16th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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MEETINGNEWS THIS WEEK - Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010

In the wake of one of the meeting industry's most challenging years, nine industry associations have collaborated in order to launch a new grassroots marketing campaign—"Face Time. It Matters."—to promote the economic benefits of face-to-face meetings and events.

Spearheaded by the Convention Industry Council (CIC), the campaign will position face-to-face meetings as tools that businesses can use to:
1. Build trust and relationships

DRIVE

Posted February 7th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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Synopsis
Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Meeting architecture - a new force in meetings studies

Posted January 28th, 2009 by minnael
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As a tourism academic with a social science background, I have had an interest in meetings and conferences for some time now, but I have always felt I was pressured into rather economic, market research-type studies. I always felt my social science interests could give the research area an exciting added dimension, but I was not sure how to go about it.

I guess Maarten Vanneste was way ahead of me, and when I read his book, the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. Meeting content has to be a key research area co-existing with the more organisational and market research studies in the future if the field is ever to be taken seriously. The wealth of research areas and topics this offers is impressive, and to me, as a researcher, very exciting.

The Effect of smell on networking in meetings and conferences

Posted May 18th, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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(Re.: article of M&IT April 2008)

What is the effect of smell at conferences?
can we measure an increase in the number of networking contacts with certain smells?
Do people behave more extravert of more open to networking with certain smells?

What neurological / biological / sociological processes lie at the base of any increase?

What difference does it make to promote, support or organize networking?

Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
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What difference does it make to promote, support or organize networking?

Meetings or conferences with or without facilitators or moderators, what is the difference?

Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
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When considering two identical meetings where the only difference is the presence of a moderator or facilitator.
How do we measure the value of the facilitator?
How important is the  impact of a facilitator?
When is a facilitator more important, for which kind of processes?
What is the influence in the Learning area, the Networking area and the Motivational area?

Send in your papers, research results or thesis to hilde.geerts@meetingsupport.org

Do we realise what we learned from a presentation?

Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
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What is the real and perceived connection between things we know and even do, and the moment we learned it? Can we demonstrate that after so many years an individual does something based on what he learned so many years ago at a conference?
How much actually came from conference learning?
How much do we realize that is came from conference learning?

Send in your ideas, research results or thesis to: Maarten.Vanneste@meetingsupport.org

Introverts vs. extroverts in networking...

Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
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How to organise networking for optimal inclusion of introvert participants?

Is (day) light really valuable for meetings?

Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
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Use natural light.
Whenever possible, try to arrange for meetings (or breakout sessions) outside the classic four-wall meeting room. Windows that let in natural light keep people energized and contribute to mental stimulus. "Windows make a huge difference in our ability to think big and be open-minded" .
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