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Free-Agent, Lisa Block, Joins Velvet Chainsaw

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In 2013 she was awarded PCMA’s highest honor for lifetime achievement. Accomplished. Over the years, Lisa has been very active with the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) where she served on numerous committees and as Board Chair.

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Live in your own imagination

Conferences that Work

My 2013 Meeting Professional column described how existing meeting technology becomes invisible. Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination “ She delves deeply into nonobvious ways that historic designs encode and perpetuate inequity. Technology is one of the areas where culturally embedded designs impact society.

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8 Events Innovating with Beacon Technology

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Event planners have been using event apps for a while now, but starting with Apple’s WWDC 2013 and its iBeacon, they began noticing a much stronger way to use the technology. Are you considering beacon technology for your next event? Here are some ideas from event planners that are already using it. Beacons have been […].

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Scenes from a Participate! Workshop and Solution Room

Conferences that Work

The Solution Room—an introductory video The talented graphic facilitator Kristine Nygaard of Kiss the frog, whom I had the recent pleasure of meeting at FRESH 2013, has created a delightful one-minute video that introduces The Solution Room, a.

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How to Improve Your Call for Presentations Process

Velvet Chainsaw

in 2013, we found that nearly 77 percent use a call for speakers/sessions process. When Velvet Chainsaw Consulting conducted speaker research with 120 associations with research and consulting company Tagoras Inc. Associations value member input.

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Is the end of an event important?

Conferences that Work

Hack the peak-end rule to maximize conference impact , April 2013. That’s because the peak-end rule implies that we’ll better remember an event with a peak and then a powerful finish than one with two peak experiences sandwiched in the body of the event. Well, maybe not. What can we learn from professional speakers?

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Unexpected experiences of awe

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Parts of this post are adapted from “Mystery and play, and the suspension of belief” which I wrote in October, 2013. Have they happened to you? Share them in the comments below! An HT to Olivia Hoblitzelle , who inspired this post!

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