Three Infographics On Conference Content And Delivery August 31, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Dare to color outside the lines. Have the courage to take risks. Let go of outdated, dead sacred cows. These were just a few of the overarching themes from Experient’s e4 2011 Conference “Outside the Lines.” Bye, Bye Breakouts! Hello Innovation Labs! The Experient team always delivers a stellar conference that’s engaging. They are willing to … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , committee best practices, conference best practices, conference tips, conferences, content, content strategist, content-strategist-curator, meeting best practices, meeting planning, meeting planning best practices, Speaker Emerging Practices
Helping Conference Participants Move From Superficial Knowing To Understanding August 29, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Have you ever walked out of a conference education session and said, “Now I understand,” and then can’t remember the main point? Sure you have. You’ve been a victim of superficial knowledge. You have a false sense of security that you “got it.” Then when you try to talk about it, you can’t remember the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning strategies, conference best practices, conference education, conferences, learning, meeting planning best practices, participatory learning
Creating Engaging Meetings Using Visual Language August 24, 2011 by Jeff Hurt I wish meetings and conferences were more fun! Don’t you? So many of them are nothing more than a boring, complicated, over stuffed information dump. Curating that information for the one or two tidbits of relevant, applicable take aways is like mining for gold. And there is little time for real dialogue and engagement. We … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference best practices, conferences, engagement, meeting best practices, presentation best practices
What Isn’t Going On In Your Conference Committee! August 22, 2011 by Jeff Hurt I understand what is going on in most annual conference committees: personal agendas, conference schedule deadlines, speaker favorites, leaders seeking control, volunteers posturing for their own ideas and power. What I struggle to comprehend is what isn’t going on. What Isn’t Happening It seems to me that annual conference committee volunteers should be serving the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , association, association best practices, association issues and challenges, committee best practices, conference best practices, conference tips, conferences, meeting planning best practices
The Next Big Conference Job Of The Future: Conference Content-Curator-Strategist August 19, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Most organizations receive hundreds of emails and phone calls asking about their speaker call for proposals. In one of my past jobs, we received 30-50 inquiries a month from professional speakers trying to land a speaking gig. And we were flooded with industry speaker requests as well. We hated those inquires. They were like speaker … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , association best practices, conference best practices, content-strategist-curator, meeting best practices, meeting experience, meeting industry trends, Speaker Emerging Practices
Dying, Boundary And Emerging Meeting Practices: Barbecuing The Sacred Cow August 18, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Does your organization have any meeting planning practices that are sacred cows? Don’t you wish you could grind them up for a barbecue? Well, it’s time to kill those traditions and make way for new, emerging ideas. e4 2011 Innovation Labs Recently I attended Experient’s e4 2011 conference, “Outside the Lines” as one of their … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , association best practices, conference best practices, content-strategist-curator, meeting best practices, meeting experience, meeting industry trends, Speaker Emerging Practices
Five Steps To Become Conference Content-Strategist-Curators (Part 1) August 12, 2011 by Jeff Hurt If you are a conference organizer, imagine your job as a museum curator. Art gallery and museum curators use judgment and a distinguished sense of style to select and arrange art. They juxtapose art pieces against one another to create a narrative, evoke a response and communicate a message. Conference organizers must approach a conference’s … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference best practices, conference curator, conferences, content design, content strategist, content-strategist-curator, curate, curator, integrated content, meeting best practices, meeting planning best practices, meeting professional
Seeing The Meeting Professional As Content Strategist And Conference Curator August 11, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Our conference participants are becoming progressively more sophisticated. At the same time, our digital network is becoming increasingly complex bringing current information and our audience closer. Often our conference participants walk into our events knowing more than our speakers. Their experiences applying knowledge and information frequently surpass that of our presenters. So how can we … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference best practices, conference curator, conferences, content design, curate, curator, integrated content, meeting best practices, meeting planning best practices, meeting professional
Going Viral: Be The Real Thing July 29, 2011 by Jeff Hurt I took my friends to one of my favorite weekend haunts, Kirin Court, a Chinese dim sum experience in far North Dallas. On weekends they offer a special buffet-type affair from 10 am – 10 pm. The Sunday wait time is usually at least an hour. The lines are long even though the restaurant seats … [Read more…] Filed Under: Attendance Marketing Tagged With: , conference best practices, conferences, event experience, meeting best practices, meeting experience, meeting planning best practices
Where Is The Conference Revolution Headed Next? July 27, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Like potter’s hands on clay, social technologies continue to shape our world. We are witnessing one of the greatest cultural revolutions in some time. It’s impacting everything from our personal lives to our families to our work to our relationships. The Social Network Era has arrived. From Things To Ideas Society has shifted from a … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference best practices, conference education, conferences, meeting industry trends, meeting planning best practices
