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Gamification makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli

Conferences that Work

Related posts: Create Your Dream Conference Collectively On This Friday’s #Eventprofs Happy Hour Join me and my special guest Bernie DeKoven on Friday, November 20, 2015 from 4 – 6 pm EST for a unique online experience where we’ll collectively create our perfect.

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Playing games, gamification, and the gulf between them

Conferences that Work

Related posts: Create Your Dream Conference Collectively On This Friday’s #Eventprofs Happy Hour Join me and my special guest Bernie DeKoven on Friday, November 20, 2015 from 4 – 6 pm EST for a unique online experience where we’ll collectively create our perfect.

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Jeopardy Meets Event Innovation: The Fishbowl Sandwich Format

Conferences that Work

We can dream Here’s how I answered Merijn’s question: “In 2015, I invented the fishbowl sandwich. Thousands of event professionals have purchased Event Crowdsourcing and The Power of Participation. They’ve beefed up their event design toolkits with the tools to tackle the hardest event design jobs.

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

Eventmobi

Giving their Event App a distinctive but simple name made it easier to find in the app store. Searching for the exact event name, “Spotlight on HR”, in the app store was more likely to return the right results than searching for “Atlanta Human Resources Conference 2015.” Reinforce The Value of The Event App Through Event Design.

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Lessons for #eventprofs from an improv and mindfulness workshop — Part 1

Conferences that Work

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Although that opportunity had to be passed up—PCMA made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: facilitating the 2015 PCMA Education Conference —I made it to the 2016 workshop. How I got there.

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Smart Moves: Access Appoints Three Female Co-CEOs

Smart Meetings

In this role, she developed a passion for event design, art direction and marketing. It became part of Access in 2015, and afterwards, grew from Colorado to Tennessee. At the same time, she opened rental and design company Max/Livie, which she still owns. In 2009, she opened Workshop, a Colorado DMC.

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

When a business event is built around attendee interaction, empowering participants to shape the content through active involvement and engagement, the outcomes are more likely to be successful, and at the same time, stronger and more meaningful relationships will result.