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19/12/2012.
Internet video is seeing unprecedented growth for communication and marketing. This paper will cover the impact of this growth for promoting and extending the life of events with examples and ideas for ...
(Views: 2,137)
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19/11/2012.
These are exciting times. The rate of technology change is accelerating with thousands of ideas, apps and innovations bubbling up to help meeting planners, exhibitors, venues and attendees to do their jobs ...
(Views: 2,907)
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31/05/2012.
Meeting planners need to track a myriad of details at events (catering orders/guarantees, room/AV sets, staffing, exhibitor requirements, registration numbers, decorator details, entertainment, speaker requirements, transportation details, VIP requirements just to name ...
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12/04/2012.
Technology changes in the past three decades have been astonishing for both the meetings industry and for society in general. To see how far we have come, I felt it would be ...
(Views: 29,346)
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01/03/2012.
As the use of mobile event apps continues to explode, there is an increasing demand by attendees to have easy-access, barrier-free and, hopefully, cost-free Wi-Fi in the meeting space and in sleeping ...
(Views: 5,473)
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13/11/2011.
1. More free or low cost apps for events and trade shows"Information technologies of all types are doubling in capability every year" – Ray Kurzweil, Technology Pioneer and FuturistAnother ...
(Views: 18,585)
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31/08/2011.
As a professional speaker and consultant focusing on events technology, I stay in hotels about 130 nights each year. I have strong feelings on what constitutes the "ideal" stay – especially in ...
(Views: 3,111)
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31/03/2011.
A large, multi-session event is like a 3-ring circus. You work furiously putting the thousands of pieces together before the event. You work long and intense hours carrying out these plans onsite. ...
(Views: 4,070)
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06/02/2011.
The iPad is the most recent in the long-running, game-changing innovations from Apple. The Mac brought the widespread use of the mouse to portable computing (1984); the iPod changed how we ...
(Views: 5,152)
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30/11/2010.
The WWTW is the most significant and longest running technology award in the meetings and tradeshow industries. The goals are to recognize technology innovation and to highlight significant trends impacting meeting planners, ...
(Views: 3,536)
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08/10/2010.
The rate of technology change is increasing. Meetings and tradeshow technology continues to advance with technology products becoming better, cheaper and easier to use. Innovation is bubbling with new options. Here are ...
(Views: 5,726)
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19/08/2010.
We are going through a major technology transformation - we are moving from shrink-wrapped software to the web as a major means of software distribution. With the price of data storage, computer ...
(Views: 4,307)
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30/06/2010.
In 2000, I made the following prediction at the CIC Forum in Washington DC: "Mobile phones will morph into widgets (wireless internet devices for geo-positioning, ecommerce and telecommunication)."I went on ...
(Views: 5,899)
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18/04/2010.
I recently attended a concert in the small city where I live, Bellingham, WA. Before the music began, I noticed a teenage daughter, mother and grandmother sitting in front of me. I ...
(Views: 5,227)
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16/02/2010.
Google Wave is a free, realtime, online collaboration platform, now in beta distribution (by invitation only), to be released to the general public sometime this year. It combines elements of e-mail, chat, ...
(Views: 6,442)
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06/12/2009.
Meetings and tradeshow technology continues to advance with technology products becoming better, cheaper and easier to use. Innovation is bubbling with new options. Here are some of the major technology trends to ...
(Views: 6,798)
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06/10/2009.
The advent of the iPhone two years ago was a game-shifter. Rich mobile web browsers with wireless broadband internet access (in the iPhone and its multitude of clones) are now common with ...
(Views: 5,186)
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12/08/2009.
The future of using the web to broadcast video is bright. Consider these facts: - The U.S. has recently transitioned to digital television, which will stimulate a broader use of web video ...
(Views: 4,928)
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09/06/2009.
The world economic slowdown and financial woes dominate the news. As businesses and associations contract, meeting planners who still have jobs are being asked to do more than they did in the ...
(Views: 5,442)
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12/04/2009.
Web 2.0 is changing meetings marketing and management with numerous benefits for meeting planners, exhibitors and attendees. It is an imprecise term, however, covering a wide range of technologies that are part ...
(Views: 5,610)
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24/02/2009.
Would you like an almost free means of digital lead exchange for your meetings? Or inexpensive electronic ticketing using mobile phones? Or a means of providing paragraphs of information and/or web links ...
(Views: 7,596)
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12/12/2008.
EIBTM’s Worldwide Technology Watch (WWTW) is the meetings industry’s most significant technology award. The winner and four finalists for WWTW 2008 were recently selected from 39 applications. These companies highlight several paths ...
(Views: 5,827)
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14/10/2008.
It is getting easier being green. The move to make meetings more environmentally-friendly is finally taking hold and meeting professionals are working together to reduce, recycle, and reuse to dramatically improve the ...
(Views: 6,140)
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06/08/2008.
These are tough times for the airline industry. Air fuel prices have doubled in the past year. Several airlines have already folded and the surviving airlines are scrambling to cut back services ...
(Views: 5,090)
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14/05/2008.
Times are changing. Web 2.0 technology is moving the balance of power from the speaker to the audience. A case in point is the recent South by Southwest Conference (www.sxsw.com) ...
(Views: 5,562)
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16/04/2008.
Podcasting is a way for event marketers and associations to get messages out to new audiences, it is a way to build traffic to a website, and it can be used as ...
(Views: 3,631)
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28/03/2008.
Gone are the days where a college education will set you for life – much of what college students learn today at the start of their education is obsolete by the time ...
(Views: 6,310)
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05/02/2008.
We are going through technology adolescence. This awkward “pimply” time is difficult as we cling to old (paper-based) methods of managing our tasks while transitioning to more efficient digital methods. It can ...
(Views: 4,751)
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30/12/2007.
Podcasts are radio shows distributed on the internet. This relatively new technology holds significant promise for the meetings and convention industries. The impacts and possibilities are discussed in this article.
(Views: 5,142)
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29/11/2007.
Web conferencing and webinars provide low-cost ways of exchanging information to geographically separated attendees – without the hassles and costs of travel.Sure, these tools won’t replace face-to-face meetings in their ...
(Views: 6,162)
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29/10/2007.
There are over three billion mobile phone subscribers globally. This is more than the number of flush-toilets and televisions combined! Eighty percent of the world’s population is within mobile phone coverage range ...
(Views: 2,745)
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23/09/2007.
What will meetings, events and tradeshows be like in forty years?The rate of technology change is accelerating – half of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive today ...
(Views: 4,031)
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26/08/2007.
As Meetings West celebrates its 20th Anniversary, it is a natural time to look back at the meetings technology developments occurring during this time. 1987It is an understatement to say ...
(Views: 5,151)
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23/07/2007.
Events commonly involve business travellers coming to unfamiliar cities with common questions: Where is my hotel? The convention centre? A particular restaurant? Or other sites of interest? What is that building in ...
(Views: 4,945)
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13/06/2007.
A video revolution, the explosion of new TV and video options, is sweeping society and will have a substantial impact on meetings and events. Here are some of the ways we will ...
(Views: 5,662)
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18/05/2007.
With 106 million registered users, if MySpace were a country, it would be the 11th largest in the world between Japan and Mexico.MySpace exemplifies the revolution sweeping the web enabling ...
(Views: 4,431)
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17/04/2007.
In the not-too-distant future, you will be able to check out at the grocery counter stopping only long enough to pick up the receipt – the entire contents of the shopping cart ...
(Views: 4,864)
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02/04/2007.
Online registration has hit critical mass with more than half of meeting planners in recent polls using or soon to be using these multiple-benefit tools. There has been an explosion of useful ...
(Views: 4,848)
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07/03/2007.
This article offers a summary of how to use the Internet to promote meetings and events. General Site Construction- Craft your site so that it will come near the top ...
(Views: 7,353)
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06/02/2007.
This is the third and last article in the Building Effective Websites series, covering key design and content issues that will help to bring your customers back to your site on a ...
(Views: 4,749)
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21/01/2007.
This is the second article in the Building Effective Websites series, covering key design and content issues that will draw customers into your site. The three articles are:
(Views: 5,215)
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11/01/2007.
Your Web site should be central to your company or association’s marketing effort. When built and managed properly it will offer you the world as your market and lots of clients. Built ...
(Views: 5,647)
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22/12/2006.
The best way to find out what people are thinking is to ask them. Audience feedback can be essential in determining what the group wants, to measure comprehension, to encourage audience interest ...
(Views: 4,277)
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05/12/2006.
Don’t sit in your booth like a bump on a log. Don’t stand around looking bored - and boring. Remember, people come to the show to see Your Company - make it ...
(Views: 5,331)
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28/11/2006.
Tradeshows and exhibits are great ways to increase company visibility and, ultimately increase sales. However, the cost of travel, shipping, time away from the office, booth rental space/supplies can be significant. It ...
(Views: 4,451)
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20/11/2006.
Then and now: Then:We used to have two phone numbers: a business line and a home line. Now:Now we may have up to a dozen telecommunication connections (main home ...
(Views: 5,891)
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06/11/2006.
“The price of computation has dropped 42% per year over 60 years — a trillion-fold fall since 1940” Bill Nordhaus, Yale.Technology will continue to evolve at a remarkable ...
(Views: 4,363)
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25/10/2006.
I was interviewed in the November 2002 issue of PCWorld Magazine regarding the use of technology, and specifically PowerPoint, in presentations. Here is the interview in its unabridged form. Q. ...
(Views: 6,671)
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05/10/2006.
1. Three things you need to know about Search Engine Marketing.2. Unique challenges and benefits of SEM for B2B tech marketers.3. Classic SEM mistakes that can really hurt your success.
(Views: 5,617)
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04/10/2006.
Meetings bring people together – it is the most fundamental job that meeting professionals do. Our industry is highly social, mobile and collaborative. It is also one where often thousands of ...
(Views: 5,081)
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