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Systems for Planners: Mac vs PC
Jon Trask is a MAC and Elizabeth Glau is PC and they discuss the systems that they use to get event and meetings work done.
Be creative
April 24, 2013 By
I enjoy watching ZeFrank. I am always impressed with him and how creative he is. His TED talk where he read a spam email is still one of my favorite TED talks.
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I have talked to my writing group The Professioanl Bullwriters Association and we are going to gear up to do some creative writing. I already wrote the first assignment.
What are you going to
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Launch Festival Startups- Instaplayer – Luis Hervella – Show 253
March 28, 2013 By
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Great Walk In Video Option
Luis Miguel Hervella from CHIPOTLELABS is an indie app developing company that builds “apps to spice up your life”.
They take this motto very seriously and have made it our mission and philosophy. Luis talks with Mike about his experience at the Launch Festival.
Twitter: @chipotlelabs
Personal Twitter: @LMHervella
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chipotlelabs
Instaplayer: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instaplayer/id539683067?mt=8
Contact email: hervella@chipotlelabs.com
Eventbrite- The Story with Tamara Mendelshon Show 244
January 5, 2013 By
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Tamara Mendelshon VP of Marketing at Eventbrite.com joins Mike McAllen for another installment of Meetings Podcast. Tamara dives into EventBrite and how it saved the marriage of founders Kevin and Julia Harts 
to the way it has helped thousands of meeting organizers easily set up events and understand their audiences through simple analytics to improve, share and build great experiences for their events and meetings. The Eventbrite Story with Tamara Mendelsohn is the first show of 2013.
Sustainable Tip of the Week: Event Planning
October 17, 2012 By
Listening to Doc Hendly talk about his efforts with “Wine to Water” has really got me in the mood to become a more sustainable person. There are so many easy and simple things that anybody and everybody can do! I have decided to do a post every week on 1 easy and simple thing for people to focus on, whether its cutting back on water, donating your old soap to “Clean the World”, the list can go on and on. Being that we just came back from iMex America (one on the largest u.s meetings industry trade shows), we are going to focus on Event Planning Sustainability this week. Here are 5 ways to create a more sustainable event…
How to look at a meetings venue like a Technical Director Primer Series (3)- Show 200
December 6, 2011 By
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Todays show continues on Meetings Podcasts Primer series:
“How to look at a meetings venue like a Technical Director.”
Jon gives some easy tips and tricks anyone who is putting on a meeting or event can use. If you have any questions please email us at meetingspodcast@gmail.com and we will get right back to you. This third edition to the Free Meetings Podcast Primer Series intends to provide AV knowledge for corporate audio visual planners for your meetings and events worldwide.
Jon Trask has always delivered on-budget and stress-free audio visual services and is in the business of making you look good.
Meetings Podcast Primer Series intends to provide AV knowledge so that you get the most out of your services and rentals for meetings and events worldwide. Whether you’re organizing a 120,000-attendee conference, or simply need a microphone and speakers for a small presentation Jon and Mike are dedicated to the success of your event and ultimately your success.
If you have any questions please email Meetingspodcast@gmail.com or call 510 595 6921
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Top 20 Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite Events
June 22, 2011 By
Top Twenty Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite use!
It is becoming he must have equipment for meeting planners. Saving backs all over the world from the equally dreaded and loved show binder! You can find all of these in the iTunes App Store.
1) Pages – It’s like Microsoft Word. Technical agendas, transportation, BEO’s and any word documents can be edited in this app.
2) Manage - To-do lists with folders. Rate by importance and due date as well as change color and write with a pen.
3) Evernote – Where I do all my note taking. Put notes into folders and email them.
4) MobileMe iDisk – Allows you to store all your docs, photos, even videos in a single place that is accessible from your computer, iPad, or iPhone. (Also Dropbox.com is a great sharing solution)
5) Penultimate – Can be used as a writing tablet. I don’t use this app a ton, but if you really have the need to write notes you can. There is an actual pen you can purchase.
6) iBooks – Is not only for downloading books (I use the kindle app for that) but all PDF’s can be stored and read in iBooks. This includes all diagrams and beo’s if sent in PDF form. Don’t waste your money on an actual pdf app as this does it for free.
7) Numbers – Allows you to open and change excel docs.
8 ) AutoCad WS – If you use DWG files for diagrams.
9) Dragon Dictation – Speak notes outloud if I am to rushed to type and then email them to myself.
10) Flight Aware – Track flights of VIPs / presenters and see if they have arrived or are delayed.
11) World Mate - Travel it tracks all my flight, hotel, and transportation info. Even where you park my car!
12) Gate Guru- Lists everything by terminal/gate at the airports for when you need to grab a quick bite or a pillow from brookstone.
13) Emergency Radio Police scanner app that can keep you up to date so I could inform others.
14) Angry Birds, Words with Friends, Pandora (music) or other game to play on down times.
15) Skype- Skype is a great way to make phone calls or instant messages for your communication needs.
16) 2Do – For creating to do lists on multiple projects at the same time and being able to names notes and flag critical due dates.
17) VMWare View- for virtual desktops linking with your work PCs and application sharing
18) Quick Office-for viewing editing Microsoft Office documents
19) Noterize – for signing contracts and e-mailing them with your ipad.
20) Don’t forget to make sure to back up everything to your laptop every evening!!!!
Thank you Stormi Boyd, CMP Senior Event Manager at Keller Williams &
Dahlton Bennington Dir. Business Meeting Services: SFN Group for the list!
Meeting Engagement Solutions -Introducing Hybrid Videos
February 21, 2011 By
Meeting Engagement Solutions (hybrid video)
This week Jon Trask and I are working on creative production for a great client of ours.
As we got started the main questions we had for our client were about the audience:
Who is your audience?
What styles do they learn from?
What generation are they from?
Are you thinking about what your audience wants to hear? What is beneficial to them and not necessarily what your executives want them to hear?
We understand these are really tough questions to ask in a planning meeting with your boss (yes, those executives) but questions that need to be asked to ensure a great meeting takes place.
After we gain this knowledge, we can talk about the next steps building the theme, look, feel and hopefully add some engagement opportunities. (videos, corporate theater, interactive technologies, games etc…)
The below video is a fascinating way to look how we are teaching our countries kids. Seems our educational system is built for the industrial revolution, which spits out worker bees.
What about your meetings? What are they spitting out? Are your meetings built the same way? For a different time or audience? For a different generation? Are your meetings the same every year?
By the way, after coming back from EventCamp in Chicago last week; where Grass Shack Events & Media producing the Hybrid portion of the meeting with Sonic Foundry. I was very interested to see how RSA used a Graphic Recorder to go back and do a Graphic Recording of Sir Ken Robinson to make this Hybrid Video-(see below)- Cheers to the RSA conference for this awesome engaging video.
I have watched it several times now and it intrigues me.
Graphic recorders are a great way engage attendees and to give your content legs after an event. Grass Shack Events & Media was hired by Hewlett Packard (HP) to produce several such meetings- keeping in mind HP’s key priority to ensure that the messages were retained by participants. http://grassshackroad.com/hewlett-packard to do this for several of there meetings. After the event the attendees were given a hard copy to post in there offices so they could see the direction and actions that were presented at the meetings. HP’s key priority was ensuring that the messages were retained by participants.
Would you like to use a graphic recorder for your next meeting?
Interview with Ira Kerns of Meeting Metrics- Show 167
January 22, 2011 By
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Interview with Ira Kerns from Meetings Metrics.
The MeetingMetrics online service is based on 25 years of meeting measurement experience of its parent company, GuideStar Research.
GuideStar has been a pioneer and leader in measuring large group meeting results for over two decades. Ira Kerns, the firm’s founder, orginated the term Return On Event (ROE) in 1990. The firm has been providing the ROE service commercially to corporations and associations since then using the Meeting Productivity Process (MPP) to measure the psychological, behavioral and financial impacts of large group meetings and events.
Provided by a combined staff of professionals, Ph.D.-level organizational psychologists from GuideStar Research and MeetingMetrics , the firm has delivered dramatic, measurable ROE results for many Fortune 500 companies and associations looking to achieve greater value from their meetings and events, enhancing their critical business relationships and improving organizational performance.
