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Corporate Event Gifting: Creative Ideas that Stand Out

Eventmobi

Having worked directly with thousands of event professionals since 2014, Cat has an intimate understanding of the day-to-day challenges event planners face when implementing new technologies to achieve their event goals. Should gifts be the same for all attendees? Desk accessories. These items can be useful for anyone in a corporate role.

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Crafting Compelling Emails to Engage Your Audience Pre-Event

Eventmobi

Having worked directly with thousands of event professionals since 2014, Cat has an intimate understanding of the day-to-day challenges event planners face when implementing new technologies to achieve their event goals. or Just Announced: See the New Speakers for Our Event! Teaser-focused. so readers click through to the main message.

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My Presentation Is Fine—It’s The Audience That Doesn’t Get It!

Velvet Chainsaw

So, why should speakers change how they present at your conference? The majority of your conference speakers imitate what their teachers and professors did with them. These speakers direct learning. Speakers design their presentations to facilitate participant learning. My lecture has worked for years. They lecture.

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Five Reasons to Change Conferences

Conferences that Work

Here’s my article “ Five Reasons to Change Conferences “ , published in the December 2018, NSA Speaker magazine. But our conference programs still focus on lectures, where a few experts broadcast their knowledge to passive listeners.

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Case Study: Meeting Expectations Doubles Attendee Event App Adoption Year-Over-Year

Eventmobi

2014 was the kickoff year for Meeting Expectations’ annual HR conference, and they knew they wanted to incorporate an event app to help engage their audience. Approach your most noteworthy speakers who are speaking early on in the event, and ask them to integrate a digital Live Poll or Q&A section into their presentation.

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?

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Who Are the Most Popular Speakers and Why?

PCMA Convene

Research professor and author Brené Brown is one of the most-searched TED Talk speakers of all time, according to VBQ Speakers. One way of determining the speakers who have the broadest and most enduring appeal comes from a U.K.-based Why do viewers continue searching for these particular speakers? Randal Ford photo).