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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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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. Marketplace.

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Event innovation, Disney, and souvenirs

Conferences that Work

Event innovation has to be more than giving attendees souvenirs. Extending your event brand. Similarly, to successfully extend your event brand you need to design appropriate additive and new experiences into it over time. So don’t serve up the same stew of event formats year after year. Event innovation?

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

A dozen years of designing and facilitating these events, together with their enthusiastic reception, had convinced me that what I’d created was valuable and important. Attendees loved my events! Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love was published in 2009. Nothing worked.

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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. So there’s a disconnect between what’s best for meeting participants, due to their fundamental psychological makeup, and the dictates of their institutional bosses and the organizations that organize the events. ” — E. Technology.

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Renegotiating Live Event Agreements When All Parties Are Innocent Victims

Velvet Chainsaw

This is the third in a series of blogs posts, written collaboratively by our team, which uncover lessons learned in advising dozens of our clients on their events in the time of COVID-19. The previous low for occupancy was during the financial crisis in 2009 when occupancy was 55 percent. From Recovery to Reform.

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BlueJeans Video Conferencing Alternative: Attendease

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Now, customers who have been using the video conferencing platform to host online events, conferences, meetings, or live streams, have to find a new way of connecting with virtual audiences. Large companies, schools, and other organizations used BlueJeans to host and manage engaging events for people across the globe.

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