What have I been up too? Where have you been? Any new articles coming?
These are just a few of the questions that I have been getting lately. Truth be told, I have been hanging out at the pool….. Not that pool fool…. The Meeting Pool (ouch, bad humor alert).
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The more I explore Evernote the more I love it. There are so many business uses for it and not just for organising projects or staff. I really like the idea that it can be used as an organised information store. Use it for recording interactions with clients, storing important company procedures or sales literature. I am sure you can think of a lot more. [Read more...]
Technology – with the important caveat of when it is used properly – is adding significantly to every area within our events. We see it playing a supporting role, through the cell or tablet, in amplifying the content within via Social Media.
Technology helps our participants be more interactive through hand held devises; be that paddles for voting; “bump” technology for networking or RFID chips for tracking their every move.
We also see technologies tentacles reach into the rooms where we hold our events. Wires and cables transport content, through live or recorded feeds, into geographical areas we could otherwise never even dream of hoping to reach! [Read more...]
OK- This post is not necessarily about the Google Glass project but it is a post on technology and your event because Google Glass exists. [Read more...]
I love technology that works and as a meeting and event professional I know that I have to put up with a ton of crap that is half a solution, one quarter delivered and sometimes just freaking broken.
One area where technology is still sitting somewhere around 1988 are conference calls. How many times will we be forced to dial into those free conference call systems and sit and wait while that awful porn music blares only to be knocked off at the last second with everyone thinking that we were late to the party when it was, in reality, their slow asses that held up the whole shebang. [Read more...]
Join bunches of other meeting and event professionals that found out that we are kinda nice sometimes.
