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

Eventmobi

For their annual ‘Spotlight on HR’ conference, the Meeting Expectations management team wanted to set a new record for member adoption and engagement on their Event App. 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.

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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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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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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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How Design Thinking Camp organizers cope with event communication plan? [Interview]

Eventory

Today, we spoke about what they did to lessen the difficulties in event communication. A dialogue between an organizer and an attendee starts the minute the event is created. First information, agenda and presentation of speakers. gorzata Rzepa – Project Manager of the Design Thinking Week. Eventory: Right!

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Lessons from Anguilla: What meeting designers can learn from religious services

Conferences that Work

And in 2014, the Vatican recommended that sermons be limited to eight minutes or less ! While people joke about the length of boring sermons, contrast this relative brevity to modern conferences, where speakers typically speak for an hour. Although some pastors take more time, their number is decreasing.