Event Camp Twin Cities is about inspiring you to try new communication and collaboration paradigms at your events.
Social, innovation, experimentation and collaboration in events are the key words that summarize what we want to demonstrate and discuss at Event Camp Twin Cities in Minneapolis, MN, USA and the remote POD events in Dallas, TX, USA and Basel, Switzerland.

With all the advancements in society and research on how the brain works, why is it that most conference education still provides talking heads and passive listeners? Is that best for your attendees? You can see the PowerPoint from a short 12-minute TED-style presentation in the following website:

ScienceDaily (June 25, 2010) — Psychologists report in the journal Science that interpersonal interactions can be shaped, profoundly yet unconsciously, by the physical attributes of incidental objects: Resumes reviewed on a heavy clipboard are judged to be more substantive, while a negotiator seated in a soft chair is less likely to drive a hard bargain.

Peggy Richie (1974) is an experienced presenter, coach and trainer with heart and soul for her audience. In her career she has proven many times how important it is to know the difference between what you say and how you say it. She has encountered many different kinds of audiences and has lived through many different situations on stage.

How can we work together to apply new scientific discoveries to meetings? I was just reviewing a long list of research studies issued this week through Science Digest and posting a few that related to meeting planning and learning to the Meeting Support website. Every week there are many scientific studies that have practical implications to the Architecture of meetings. I am afraid that we miss too many opportunities for improving the effectiveness of meetings and are slow to adopt beneficial practices because we do not have the time or resources to review and apply these new discoveries.

ScienceDaily (June 1, 2010) — Can you help you? Recent research by University of Illinois Professor Dolores Albarracin and Visiting Assistant Professor Ibrahim Senay, along with Kenji Noguchi, Assistant Professor at Southern Mississippi University, has shown that those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.

More Balls Than Most gets people going - both mentally and physically. We have pioneered the use of entertainment as a means of driving communication within organisations - entertrainment - in The Netherlands & Europe since 1992. Hundreds of thousands of participants, many of them in our unique style of juggling training sessions, have actively experienced these messages both simply and clearly.

Creating an environment which is brand sensitive and helps accelerate the objectives of your event is key. De Otter Creators offer a truly creative approach in the field of live communications specialising in the creation, development and direction of effective live communication concepts, which always have their roots in the customer's original marketing strategy.

Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains for design and evaluation toolkit for training and learning. Cognitive Affective Psychomotor Domains Bloom's Taxonomy, (in full: 'Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains', or strictly speaking: Bloom's 'Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives') was initially (the first part) published in 1956 under the leadership of American academic and educational expert Dr Benjamin S Bloom.

Summary Report from an OECD-CER Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark As there are 34 000 classified emotions, the question arises as to how are teachers supposed to recognize and deal with the emotional states of their students, when most of the time the students don’t even know what they are feeling themselves..... Is it possible to develop a coherent framework for dealing with emotions that does not produce confusion?