We live in the participation economy. We have phones in our pockets that are one tap, click or voice request away from finding anything that we want to know on the Internet.
When I look around, I still see events struggling to integrate and use technology to tap into the power
People come to meetings and conferences for lots and lots of reasons.  Here is my list of 20 reasons people come to conferences – in no particular order:
Learn best practices
Learn new skills – How to’s
Learn about new trends
See a vision of the future
Listen to a
In a recent study, 60% of trade show booth organizers said that "Closed Sales" is their #1Â measure of success at their event. Â Yet, there are many, many more ways that meetings add value beyond revenue generated. How are you measuring the business value that your meetings and events create for
Several years ago, I was in Norway giving a presentation and using interactive Q&A for the first time in a conference. Previously, I had always used the microphone for my presentations. On this day, we had a new event technology that had a Q&A feature.
I discovered very quickly that if
Mobile devices and social media technology makes it easy to create attendee engagement experiences in our events.
You can capture polls, votes, surveys, ideas, questions, photos and much more through event apps, audience response apps, social media, SMS, tablet activations and much more.
In return, there are many fun, animated displays that will
