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Learning Meetings and Conferences in Practice

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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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.




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El belga "despierta"a los profesionales de la reuniones

Posted November 19th, 2008 by administrator
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Article about Maarten Vanneste's book "Meeting Architecture a manifesto" in eventos magazine of July - August 2008.

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Meeting Architect

Posted November 1st, 2008 by administrator
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Article about Maarten Vanneste's book "Meeting Architecture a manifesto"
in Meetings - Autumn 2008

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The Handbook of Large Group Methods:

Posted October 25th, 2008 by hilde
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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:

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Presentation: Meeting technology

Posted September 26th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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A presentation for a meeting industry audience.
It 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.

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Meeting Participation Technology

Posted September 26th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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Meeting Participation Technology

Interactivity has been a buzz word in the meetings industry since at least on decade. Sleeping participant must have been the flashing red light for meeting organisers and meeting planners. Even though napping has proven to be healthy, tiredness after lunch is normal and powernaps are a rage from Tokyo to New York, nobody likes it during their own meeting or conference.

Keeping 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?

The Effect of smell on networking in meetings and conferences

Posted May 18th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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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?


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Amiando

Posted May 16th, 2008 by administrator
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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.


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Meeting Support tools: CHATTY tools

Posted May 7th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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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).
These 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.

interesting blog on networking at meetings

Posted May 7th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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A 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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