NETWORKING OBJECTIVES
Learning Meetings and Conferences in Practice
Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
Learning meetings and conferences are about maximising the attendees' learning. Too many conferences are packed with PowerPoint presentations that achieve too little because they render attendees passive and bored. A learning conference engages attendees in active interpretation of what they hear and helps them share knowledge with each other.Learning meetings must be facilitated carefully, so attendees feel they are being seen and heard.
El belga "despierta"a los profesionales de la reuniones
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Meeting Architect
Posted November 1st, 2008 by administratorin Meetings - Autumn 2008
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The Handbook of Large Group Methods:
Posted October 25th, 2008 by hilde
Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems.
The Handbook of Large Group Methods takes the next step in demonstrating through a series of cases how Large Group Methods are currently being used to address twenty-first-century challenges in organizations and communities today, including:
Presentation: Meeting technology
Posted September 26th, 2008 by maarten.vannesteIt informs about technology based on the Meeting Support Institute membership.
Ideal as a pannel with technology providers.
Sam Smith coordinates and has a presentation to introduce the topic.
Each panelist gets time for a short presentaton.
A Q&A session is moderated, facilitated by Sam Smith.
Meeting Participation Technology
Posted September 26th, 2008 by maarten.vannesteKeeping the audience awake during presentations is one thing, but making the audience participate is a whole different ball game. Turning an audience into participants is key since it creates value for the participant and for the conference. Simply put: it increases the ROI.
Where does participation fit?
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The Effect of smell on networking in meetings and conferences
Posted May 18th, 2008 by maarten.vannesteWhat 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?
Amiando
Posted May 16th, 2008 by administrator
Amiando is one of Europe's largest event organization platform. We help people to organize and manage their events online. Thousands of private and public events are organized on amiando every month, including events like leweb3, DLD as well as several celebrity and charity parties.
In June 2007, amiando launched the first European online tool for a secure, uncomplicated and individual do-it-yourself ticket shop. The innovative amiando do-it-yourself ticket shop system enables anyone to instantly offer an online ticket presale without any effort and without piles of paper.
Meeting Support tools: CHATTY tools
Posted May 7th, 2008 by maarten.vannesteThese tools can be concepts, people, creative, technical or technological tools.
Five large groups of tools are CHATTY tools:
C Concepts: - formats, techniques, methods, processes- theme, slogan, communication
H Human: - stage facilitators, speakers, actors, - backstage technicians, ...
A Art: creative, look&feel, design, photography, video
T Technical: Equipment AV, set, flipcharts, pen & paper, post-it notes
TY TechnologY: - computer related / specialty tools- internet related / on line activities
These groups include all potential tools and services one ould deploy at meetings or conferences.
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interesting blog on networking at meetings
Posted May 7th, 2008 by maarten.vannesteA few intriguing articles and some research on networking at conferences can be found on the blog of Rick Borovoyn CTO at nTag. Make sure you leave a comment if you like what you see.
-A few interesting words will help build a vocabulary for our profession: Community mirror, event catalyst, betweenness centrality? ...
-some professional research
- an interesting thesis
All interesting material: have a look at http://rick.ntag.com/ and make sure you leave a comment or give us your feedback with a comment on this piece
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