Taking meetings to the next level...

It seems like webcasts at conferences are popping up all over the place.  I believe that webcasts are going to become an important virtual component of face 2 face meetings in the future. 

How often have you attended a meeting or training session or taken an e-learning program and then failed at applying your learning to your job? Often this results from one of the following causes:
• Because the subject matter was brand new to you, you didn’t know what questions to ask in the class, so when you tried to apply your learning to your work, you find that you now have questions, but no resources available to answer those questions.

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A 6 MINUTE INTRODUCTION VIDEO about hybrid meetings: the combination of a real face-to-face meeting and remote participants and or remote speakers. Demonstrating the USE OF you-tube, camera, slides, document- camera, etc.

(in Februari 2009 Sam Smith moved from Switzerland to the USA.) A presentation about technology for a meeting industry audience. It informs about technology from Voting systems to Social networks. Ideal as a pannel with technology providers (based on the Meeting Support Institute members). Sam Smith coordinates and has a presentation to introduce the topic. Each panelist gets time for a short presentaton. This Interactive session is moderated, facilitated by Sam Smith. as seen at EIBTM 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 148,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.

This Dutch monthly magazine has, in every issue, 4 to 10 topics that are applicable in meeting architecture. For the Dutch speaking meeting professional with an interest in psychology, sociology, cognitive science and neurology this is a great resource. Every issue publishes research results, short versions of theses,  and articles from international publications like Nature, Monitor on Psychology and more.

Who We Are Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 148,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide. Comment: Search for learning or networking or Motivation or a combination. The monthly magazine Monitor on Psychology is on line.

Research from the US psychologist Blascovich shows that humans in virtual environments behave exactly the same towards virtual people as they do towards real people in the real world. Even if those computer animations do not look very realistic. It seems that the human mind has a built in mechanism to react in a social way. Writes Blascovitch It is nearly impossible, not to be fooled. Comment: