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Buckaroo Breakaway Cadillac Conference Programming Trends Looming Your Way In 2017 – Part 1

Velvet Chainsaw

It’s the adventures of your next conference experience across the eighth dimension. Well, similar to Buckaroo’s adventures, you have the opportunity to take your band of conference participants into the 21st Century conference dimension. These conference programming trends are headed your way.

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Burn Conference Traditions Immune From Criticism

Velvet Chainsaw

Your association, annual conference, and governance are all institutions. That’s a decline of 14 percentage points from the 2017 report. One of the sacred cows for associations and their annual conference is attributing notoriety to the office of the president, board chair or annual conference committee chair.

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Configurable and Personalized Conference Experiences

Velvet Chainsaw

The mass-personalization wave that is dramatically changing what and how we buy as consumers has application to conferences. Application to Conferences. In my opinion, the first item — individualizing a conference experience for every attendee — isn’t scalable today.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

In order to design relevant education and networking experiences at our conferences, we need to be focused to the point of obsession with our target audience. Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences. Who has the professional development budget to attend every year?

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Even More Buckaroo Breakaway Cadillac Conference Programming Trends – Part 2

Velvet Chainsaw

They would embrace the context of each dimension much like you need to embrace these current conference programming trends. Five More Cadillac Conference Programming Trends. Here are the next five 2017 conference programming trends. Strategically Using The Conference As An On-Ramp Not A Cul-De-Sac.

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A Cautionary Word From Research About Personalization

Velvet Chainsaw

Personalization—it seems to be the 2017 buzzword for nonprofit associations and conferences. Data and technology can help make your conference more configurable. Personalization of a conference experience is a much deeper and complex ambition than making it configurable. Yet, personalization is more than technology.

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20 Ways to Modernize an Annual Meeting – Part 1

Velvet Chainsaw

If you want to breathe new life into your conference, and increase relevance for next-generation attendees, start with this kill/change list. Most annual meetings have used the same template agenda for decades. They just replace the filling each year. Part two of this series will include the remainder of the list. Annual Business Meeting.

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