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Mediocrity Is Your Biggest Conference Competitor

Velvet Chainsaw

Your real conference competition is not that event held six months after yours. Nor is your competitor time, money and resources. Today’s technology driven, hyper-connected, instant gratification, real-time world puts you as a conference organizer in a difficult position. It runs smoothly as planned. We look backwards.

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

A great selection of guest posts dominates this blog, and they also provide a host of additional resources in the form of guides and webinars. As the name indicates, this is a production blog, podcast and resource for the live events industry. Conferences That Work. Plan Your Meetings. The MICE Blog. This one’s for you.

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Learner- And User-Design Key To Next-Gen Audiences

Velvet Chainsaw

For conferences, the entire conference experience is the product. UXD experts suggest that we flip the order for improvement and start with designing attendee experiences first. Then we should work backwards, dealing with systems & resources (logistics & tools) last. Here are some UXD strategies to ponder.