Make Your Conference the Centerpiece for a Tight-Knit Community

Monday, November 12th, 2012

Get concrete ideas for making your conference more popular and profitable. From interactive TV and sessions to eBooks, more shareable ways that more stakeholders can participate, learn, build relationships, sponsor, co-create content and keep conversations going throughout the year

Two Experts’ Ideas for More Convivial Conferences

Friday, August 29th, 2008

If you’re new to MovingFromMeToWe.com, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Recession coming? Perhaps the best way to keep briefed on your profession is to attend the annual conference of your peers. Yet wouldn’t you enjoy the event more if you had a greater voice in the meeting design and [...]

A Natural Way to Network at “Our” Conference

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

“Did you go there on vacation?” “I rode on that bike ride for breast cancer too.” “Oh, you went to that meeting too?” Walking around the conference halls, with your favorite tote bag over your shoulder is like carrying a mini-billboard about some

When a Conference Audience Gets Ugly in Live Time

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Traditionally, conference attendees fill out conference evaluations after a session or conference is over, but the SXSW conference for tech and entertainment folks is anything but traditional. Some attendees heckled in real time at the  “pandering” and/or “self-promoting” style of Business Week’s “Valley Girl” columnist Sarah Lacey during her interview of Facebook CEO, Mark Zukerberg.A “trainwreck.”(Advice: know [...]

Want More Sponsor Money for Your Member-Based Group?

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Then provide companies more value. In one of those “Why didn’t I think of this earlier?” moments the leaders at Professional Convention Management Association adopted a simple and very successful change. They invited would-be sponsors to underwrite events and other programs throughout the year, not just at the annual conference or other one-time opportunity. The [...]

What Makes Your Expo a Must-Attend for Us?

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Is your expo + conference a “must attend” event for more people very year? How clear and well-known is the biggest reason to go? Attendance has grown a whopping 40% every year since George Jage launched his World Tea Expo in 2003. And he had a handicap. Jage had never worked in the industry he [...]

Fast Way to Learn From Each Other

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Pecha Kucha. This “equal time” meeting format is wildly popular because everyone gets a chance to share and compare in a quick and lively way. That’s why it spread around the world so quickly in the past few years. Attendees loved it yesterday when Joan Eisenstodt demonstrated the approach at PCMA’s prestigious conference of meeting [...]

Make Your Next Conference More Participatory …

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

… so they’ll want to come back next year. How many conferences have you attended where you felt talked “at” by a series of speakers up on stage? Then you rushed between sessions to meet new people and catch up with friends in the hallways. Wouldn’t it be great to have a meeting designed to [...]

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