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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

Having been on Twitter (yes, I know it’s been renamed “X”, sue me) since 2009, I’d describe Mastodon as the old Twitter. What Twitter was back then When I joined Twitter in June 2009, the platform was just about to take off. By the end of the year, “Twitter” was declared the top word of 2009.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love was published in 2009. I continue to post every week on this blog, something I’ve been doing since 2009. I found a wonderful editor, Anne Lezak , who was incredibly encouraging. Towards the end of our working relationship, she told me I was a good writer!

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Sherpa: developing and deploying innovative and robust solutions to support the most complex events since 2009

Event Industry News

Sherpa has been at the forefront of event technology since 2009; developing and deploying innovative and robust solutions to support the most complex events. Our online and hybrid event solutions were designed to help events increase profitability like never before. Hybrid event platform: Unify.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

In 2009, the biologist E.O. 9 September 2009. 9 September 2009. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” ” — E.

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BlueJeans Video Conferencing Alternative: Attendease

Attendease

Founded in 2009 and launched for commercial use in 2011, BlueJeans was started by Krish Ramakirshnan and Alagu Periyannan as a video conferencing solution that hoped to be “as comfortable and as casual as your pair of jeans.” What Is BlueJeans?

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Event innovation, Disney, and souvenirs

Conferences that Work

The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. It’s hard to create genuinely new experiences for special events like galas, life celebrations, and incentive programs. Hey, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.)

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Monetizing Your Virtual Conference When Competing with Free

Velvet Chainsaw

The dynamics that we’re seeing impact conferences and their business models are very similar to the Freemium movement we experienced way back in 2009. We’re on content overload and it’s only going to get noisier as the pandemic lingers.