Weird And Wacky Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics February 13, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Yes, it’s true. It’s an infographic about infographics. And it’s animated and interactive. Neo Mam Studios may not be the first agency to have this idea, but what they’ve come up with is beautifully designed and brilliantly executed. An online experience built with HTML5 and CSS3, you can check it out in all its interactive … [Read more…] Filed Under: Attendance Marketing Tagged With: , brain science education, neuroscience, visuals
A Journey Down Conference Street February 6, 2015 by Jeff Hurt So go downtown Things will be great when you’re downtown No finer place for sure, downtown Everything’s waiting for you* *Downtown as sung by Petula Clark. Take A Mental Stroll It’s time to take a nostalgic journey downtown on Conference Street. Visualize yourself walking down a traditional city lane. Both sides are lined with the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference experience, emotional experience, event experience, meeting experience, user experience design
Our Screwed Up Thinking About Creating Conference Experiences January 28, 2015 by Jeff Hurt As conference organizers, we need to learn about the power of experience. Well, we already know about experiences. We have them all the time. We’ve had experiences with our families and friends. We’ve had experiences with work. We’ve had school experiences. We’ve had experiences with institutions and organizations. We’ve had vacation experiences. Terrible, Horrible, No … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference experience, emotional experience, event experience, meeting experience, user experience design
Are You Guilty Of Advancing The Height Of Conference Arrogance? January 27, 2015 by Jeff Hurt The sound of a great conference is not the thunderous applause following an inspiring speaker. It is the creaking of our mind’s doors and windows opening to fresh vistas and perspectives. It’s the low hum of people talking to one another in pairs about their insights, thoughts, reflections, concerns and opportunities around short chunked critical … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conversations, discussions, interactive, lecture, participant-centric, participatory conferences, peer-based learning, presentation best practices, professional speakers
Your Conference Audience Matters More Than You Think! January 22, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Having an audience at a conference is no longer a novel idea. It’s expected and a given. Unless you’re a speaker that didn’t resonate with this audience in a past meeting. Then you probably have a very small or limited audience if any. How you define your conference audience defines how you design your event. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , co-creation, community, conference audiences, conference best practices, conference experience, participant-centric
Is Your Conference Fostering Conscious Cognitive Misers? January 21, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Are you creating intellectually lazy conference participants? Your conference programming may harbor bias toward minimizing cognitive efforts. In other words, your conference sessions and speakers may actual curtail participants’ thinking. Your conference could be creating happy fools. These happy fools blindly respond to their own problems by erroneously using your conference takeaways as accurate solutions. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, conference best practices, conference education, copying great ideas, education best practices, transformational conferences, transformational learning
Become A Ridiculously In Charge Rock Solid Conference Leader January 19, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Every person in a team is a leader. ~ Alison Levine, 2015 PCMA Convening Leaders. Leadership matters! Whether leading an entire conference team or working in a meetings department as part of a team, leadership matters. So are you a conference leader? Do you lead others in a way to get their brains, hearts, minds … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , becoming a conference leader, Conference 2.0, conference best practices, conference leadership, leadership, meeting professional
Adopt These Four Values To Super Charge Your Conference Participant Peer Learning January 16, 2015 by Jeff Hurt In today’s high-tech, information-at-your-thumbs world, education models have shifted. Our conference participants now have the capacity and cultural motivation to produce their own knowledge. They experience overwhelmingly support for creating and sharing information and connections in their daily lives. We continue to witness the rise of the participatory culture as Henry Jenkins describes it. These … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , active participation, adult education, adult learning strategies, conference best practices, participatory culture, participatory learning
Inject These 5 Education Disruptors In Your Conference January 13, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Brain science is not a fad and neither is online learning. The more we learn about how we learn, the more opportunities we have to provide more meaningful and lasting learning experiences for attendees at our meetings and events. Inject These 5 Disruptors In Your Conference Education Here are the slides from my joint presentation … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , brain-friendly conferences, conference education, learning trends, meeting industry trends, neuroscience
Unlearning Our Old Patterns Of Conference Education To Relearn For A Socially Engaged Future January 7, 2015 by Jeff Hurt It’s past time for conference organizers to learn about learning! Our conference success depends upon it. We’ve got to stop saying that it is someone else’s job to manage the content, programming and the attendee experience of the conference. That all we do is work on the logistics of the conference. If we want to … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , adult education, adult learning, adult learning strategies, conference best practices, conference education, education best practices, unlearning
