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IMEX13 Frankfurt FRESH Dinner

Posted April 15th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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FRESH dinner is the place where you meet others with an interest in the content side of meetings. You will have the opportunity to meet meeting planners, meeting designers, facilitators, ROI specialists, technology suppliers, actors etc. Our last dinner at IMEX Frankfurt was a great success and was sold out with more than 120 people.

TapCrowd: Connecting the online and physical world through mobile.

Posted April 15th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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Mobile communications platform


The TapCrowd app building platform allows event organisers to easily create a professional mobile app for their event. The platform offers all necessary functionality to offer the best mobile event app available today to your visitors. Updating content or changing the look and feel of your app is easy as pie. Updates are live instantly!

For trade shows, conferences and corporate events

Webges:software and services for conference organizers

Posted April 15th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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WEBGES provides a complete modular solution with a proven software platform and efficient services to manage: Member Management, Registration, Program and Presentation Distribution.

We are an operational industry and it is time to embrace that.

Posted September 21st, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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For over a decade we now have heard about the ‘seat at the table’, ‘strategic meeting management’, ROI etc.  All very interesting topics, but the vast majority in the meetings industry have not walked far with these things.
 
I believe that the explanation is simple: Meeting planning is an operational world and the hearts and minds of the people are not into C-level stuff.

Give Participants Time to Talk

Posted September 21st, 2009 by DanTobin
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It is a common error, and one that I made early in my career. Because bringing participants together is so costly to the company, and because it happens so infrequently, there is a natural tendency to cram as much information as possible into the available time.

It's a technological world

Posted June 5th, 2013 by dominika.fudala
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(IMEX ShowDaily3) An interviewed with Maarten Vanneste published on IMEX ShowDaily3, published on Thrusday, 23rd May 2013

It’s a technological world


The role of technology in the meetings business has evolved hugely in the past ten years and shows no sign of let up. Where once the Telex was cutting edge, organisers must now manage in an age of hybrid events, multi-screening and streamed live content. Technology is making today’s events more engaging than ever.

Mireia Iglesias a student intern at the MSI

Posted June 8th, 2010 by mireia.iglesias
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The MSI welcomes students from all over the world with an interest in the content side of meetings, meeting design, Meeting Architecture. 
Her daily, weekly and monthly work at the Meeting Support Institute combines multiple and different kinds of tasks.

Superevent-The ultimate app to power all your events. IMEX Fresh Dinner App sponsor

Posted May 6th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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We started Superevent because we noticed that meeting people and networking is increasingly   becoming the main reason to attend professional events, while the content is the shared interest that connects us.

This got us thinking, because the networking tools that organizers provide are non-existent or basic at best.
When was the last time you got access to the attendee
list? Or did you not…

With Superevent we aim to provide the best tools to facilitate (professional) meetings and events, for all stakeholders.

Learning: Actively Recalling Information from Memory Beats Elaborate Study Methods

Posted February 6th, 2011 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) — Put down those science books and work at recalling information from memory. That's the shorthand take away message of new research from Purdue University that says practicing memory retrieval boosts science learning far better than elaborate study methods. "Our view is that learning is not about studying or getting knowledge 'in memory,'" said Purdue psychology professor Jeffrey Karpicke, the lead investigator for the study that appears January 20 in the journal Science. "Learning is about retrieving.

Pretty woman, dumb man…

Posted October 7th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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Johan Karremans couldn’t remember his own address when an attractive lady asked him at the end of a conversation. This Dutch psychologist had been so busy trying to impress her that his cognitive abilities were temporary exhausted. He decided to investigate this more closely and discovered man can’t think optimally after a conversation with a woman. The prettier the woman, the stronger the effect. With women this effect did not appear.

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