Become an opportunity-maker for the member organization that most matters to you. Imagine that your association or special interest group kept innovating to create more value and meaning for members.
That’s what TED has done and we can too by taking three collaborative steps over time:
1. Offer a single major conference – as most associations already [...]
Job hunting is dispiriting – often lonely and isolating.
That’s why it was so comforting for job seekers to be in a room full of knowledgeable people who were ready to meet with them, one-on-one, to answer their specific questions.
From job hunt web sites to career counseling coaches could personalize their advice to each [...]
If a coffee shop owner and a former minister can make money by leading groups then, perhaps, so can you and I. In the following success stories see if there’s a method you’d like to try. With the right approach people are happy to pay you for the opportunity to hone a skill they already have [...]
Anyone seeking more meeting participation may be discovering new ways by attending Obama-led town hall meetings. Some opinion leaders find Obama’s inferred endorsement of google tools jarring. Yet the three he’s using would be helpful to most any event planner, cause advocate, online entrepreneur or global team leader. They are free, easy to use and scalable:
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Exhibitors: here’s a surefire way to attract more warmed-up prospects to your booth, learn about their needs and bond with them as a festive part of the conference. As a speaker, I’ve forged value-building alliances with exhibitors that you can adapt to your kind of exhibiting.
“Make Every Moment Count” is the title of a [...]
Every once in awhile I’m going to share a Me2We kind of nugget from someone on my blog roll. See that roll now on the right side of the page, scrolling down through “Recommended Links.”
Today we’ll turn to the Center for Graphic Facilitation where Peter Durand takes Fast Company to task. Why? They skipped one [...]
It takes a tenth of a second to form an impression. So imagine how difficult it is to hold their interest for five minutes. That’s a short time for you and a looooooong time to them. For practice in being memorably brief, find or start an Ignite group. They are popping up all over, including [...]
Your hobby or work expertise or belief may be unusual, yet it’s likely that people near you share your interest. Or they may just want to have fun. How can you find those kindred spirits? By hosting an ever-better MeetUp.
Also consider start a MeetUp to create a profit center for yourself. Or to hone a skill or [...]
Oops. Don’t just design and decorate your people-serving place or event. Storyboard it. Create the experience for them, just as a movie director plans the sequence of scenes to pull people in and evoke an strong emotional response. But, unlike a movie director, you can involve all the senses.
From the first smell to the last [...]
From stay-at-home Mom to art teacher to designer of exquisite Ukrainian eggs to author of a book that lands her on The Today Show. That’s quite career ride.
Better still, it led Jane Pollak to her dream job.
Jane provides what’s probably the single most successful Me2We tool you’ll ever find. The mastermind group. She’s belonged [...]
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