Using Gamification To Influence Event Participants’ Behavior March 17, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Gamification is the current shiny object for the meetings and events industry. Why all the hype about gamification? As the business sector is discovering, gamification has the power to Increase and improve customer engagement Build customer loyalty Incent customers to do specific things Defining Gamification Gamification is the use of game mechanics and game dynamics … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conferences, engagement, event technology, Gamification, MMOG, MMOs, Social Media
8 Pre-Conference Strategies To Engage Your Participants March 10, 2011 by Jeff Hurt A lot of energy, time and passion is put into planning a conference. Many focus on all the onsite logistics running smoothly. Seeing Conferences In A Ecosystem Of Customer Touchpoints Conference participants focus on their experience. Their emotions range from the pre-conference anticipation and hype to the post-conference blues and exhaustion. And often the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Attendance Marketing, Experience Design Tagged With: , conferences, ecosystem of touchpoints, engagement, event technology, meeting planning best practices
Life Long Learning: In Pursuit Of Our Dreams March 9, 2011 by Jeff Hurt What d’ya know? Not enough. We can never know enough in the modern workplace. At least, that’s how I feel. Lifetime Learning A Path To Success Good education serves as the foundation for productive work. Lifetime learning offers a well-marked path to success. It’s up to us to follow it. On average, Americans spend just … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, conferences, Education & Adult Learning, learning, meeting planning best practices
Tech Seeds Of Revolution In Meetings And Events March 8, 2011 by Jeff Hurt The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. ~ William Gibson. From The Information Age To The Participatory Culture The explosion of digital media and the emergence of the participatory culture have amplified and transformed communication in ways we are only beginning to discover. Today, creating and sharing information is the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology Tagged With: , conferences, event technology, meeting planner, technology
Confessions Of An Industry Speaker: What I Dislike About Your Conference March 7, 2011 by Jeff Hurt I feel like a professional conference attendee lately. I have attended and spoke at nine different conferences in the last 63 days. That’s one conference for every seven days. In reality, I spoke more than nine times because sometimes I had two or three presentations at each event. Seeing Your Speakers As Partners As a … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, industry speaker, meeting planner, presenter, speaker
Make Your Conference Irresistible! March 2, 2011 by Dave Lutz This post is by Dave Lutz. One of the sessions that I looked forward to the most at Event Camp Chicago 2011 was from Liz Strauss. Liz is a deep thinker. And she did not disappoint! I had to go back and watch the recording to get my head around how to best apply her … [Read more…] Filed Under: Attendance Marketing Tagged With: , conferences, event marketing, irresistible attraction
A Step By Step Process To Use Text To Screen During Events March 1, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Does technology change today’s audiences? 95% of the attendees at my presentation at Event Solutions Idea Factory said yes. The majority of them felt that when technology is used correctly at a conference or event, it can engage an audience. And 100% of my audience texted me during my presentation. Yes, 100% of this global … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology Tagged With: , backchannel, conferences, engagement, event technology, Text to screen, Text2Screen, texting, texting at events, twitter, Twitter for events
Giving Your Conference Content Handles February 25, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Presentations are a way to move information from my head into your actions. If I do it right, I give my ideas handles, so that you can run with what I’ve started and make it your own. ~ Chris Brogan Do you design your conference content so that it has handles? Have you ever even … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, Education & Adult Learning, presentation strategies, speaker
The Conference Backchannel: Bonus Or Bomb? February 24, 2011 by Jeff Hurt When I say Twitter backchannel, what’s your first reaction? Seriously, what’s the first thing that you think? Huh? What’s that? OMG, that’s a way to destroy the speaker’s presentation! We can’t do that. What if someone has something negative or childish to say about the presenter or the event and it gets displayed for everyone … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , backchannel, conferences, engagement, event technology, twitter, Twitter for events
10 Key Gaming Elements To Increase Conference Engagement February 22, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Online games, MMOs, are changing the way people work, meet and interact. What Are MMOs? Multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs, MMOGs or MMOs) are sophisticated games with immersive environments. They support hundreds to thousands of players simultaneously. Played on the Internet, they feature a virtual world, a story with goals, avatars and guilds. Players engage … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Networking, Experience Design Tagged With: , conferences, engagement, massively multiplayer online games, MMO, MMORPG, online games
