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Comment on Bringing Tupac back from death using Hologram Technology at Coachella by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:40:29 +0000

Thaks so much for the link Phani!

Comment on Bringing Tupac back from death using Hologram Technology at Coachella by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:39:17 +0000

Really cool stuff. Rye you might want to check out Jons personal blog on concerts he goes to. Glastonbury & Beyond Some great insights from a real music fan. Thanks for the comment. mike

Comment on Bringing Tupac back from death using Hologram Technology at Coachella by Rye @Event Wifi

Rye @Event Wifi — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:44:25 +0000

Props to coachella. They did an excellent job and because of them I had an incredible time reading hilarious tweets from people who thought Tupac was either never really killed or magically resurrected. By the by, this is the future of entertainment. It’s great to have the artists that we loved but are no longer with us perform our favorites.

Comment on Presentation Magic to Engage Audiences by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:56:24 +0000

It is so fun when thought is put into a presentation. This is over the top in a great way… love it.

Comment on Presentation Magic to Engage Audiences by Ruud Janssen

Ruud Janssen — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:36:05 +0000

Very well put together and really cool to see traditional story telling, ipad technology and magic come in such a playful and entertaining package.

Comment on Presentation Magic to Engage Audiences by Cameron Toth (@CameronToth)

Cameron Toth (@CameronToth) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:46:57 +0000

Excellent! I love magic incorporated with Technology!

Comment on Bringing Tupac back from death using Hologram Technology at Coachella by Phani Kumar

Phani Kumar — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:24:32 +0000

The link to the unofficial guide book is right here on Smashwords just for you Coachella fans: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/151795. If there was a way I could attend to the festival..

Comment on Presentation Magic to Engage Audiences by Midori

Midori — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:28:04 +0000

Cool find!!!

Comment on Interview with Sasha Souza of Sasha Souza Events by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:00:12 +0000

Thanks so much for listening! Would you like me to do a followup interview?
mike

Comment on Interview with Sasha Souza of Sasha Souza Events by Somerset wedding gal

Somerset wedding gal — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:26:11 +0000

So interesting to hear about how she became a wedding planner – especially from a time before the internet was what it is today. She must have intelligently evolved to keep her presence strong and keep business going – and I’m totally with her that education is that way to do that.

Comment on Why Online Video is So Important for Events and Meetings by Event videography : The importance of having it | A Singapore Videographer

Event videography : The importance of having it | A Singapore Videographer — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:43:13 +0000

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Comment on The box… by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:09:28 +0000

Then go!!!! It will be for research for Cantrav.

Comment on The box… by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:08:32 +0000

Hey John- Jon wrote this and gets to go to Coachella. I will be here in the office if you need me. Listening to my Air Supply albums.

Pretty cool stuff Coachella did though!

Mike

Comment on The box… by JP

JP — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:14:49 +0000

Nice analysis, Mike! Every interaction with an attendee is an opportunity – you just proved that. I’d be pumped too.
jp

Comment on The box… by Tahira Endean

Tahira Endean — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:05:57 +0000

Now I want to go to Coachella.

Comment on Hybrid Events 101 Primer Series (4) Show 203 by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:13:21 +0000

Francis-
Thanks so much for listening. Are you currently producing Hybrid events or meetings?

mike

Comment on Hybrid Events 101 Primer Series (4) Show 203 by Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:10:31 +0000

Hey – thanks for a great podcast. Completely agree with the point that events are *already* hybrid events – conference organisers just need to begin to harness this. We’ve found that simple a simple private social network can be a great way to do this for many conferences.

Comment on Social Media Monitoring for Meetings and Events Show 209 by Pat Ahaesy

Pat Ahaesy — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:17:02 +0000

Great Podcast. Yes, it’s important to engage the virtual audience. Just as important is selecting the right person or people to handle this.

Comment on Meetings Podcast Now Available On Stitcher App (Mobile: OnDemand) by Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:46:05 +0000

Really cool! Looks like the Stitcher app is quite high in demand. And why not…..its removes the need to download the podcasts. I guess this will come in handy for me.

Comment on Top 20 Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite Events by Must Have Technologies for Meeting Planners (and the next must have step to take) « jillstone

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:41:22 +0000

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Comment on Tracy Stuckrath from Thrive Events & Meetings Interview from PCMA- Show 206 by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:14:39 +0000

Thanks Joan!

Yes! We should do followups to this podcast and talk more about other dangers and oversights.

Thanks for listening Joan. Did you meet Tracy at PCMA?

Mike

Comment on Tracy Stuckrath from Thrive Events & Meetings Interview from PCMA- Show 206 by Joan Eisenstodt

Joan Eisenstodt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:05:08 +0000

Say it louder. I’ve been doing so for years as have many others. The industry – ALL of it (those how plan, those who cook, those who cater and serve) don’t get it — at all. Cross-contamination is a huge issue.

And then could we talk about scents and the danger for some of us?

Thanks.

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Comment on Virtual Edge Summit Hybrid Event Speakers- Show 204 by Noella2

Noella2 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:46:50 +0000

Am sure it is going to be a worthy event, enjoy and thanks for the good work and information you give us here.

Comment on Interview with Michael Douglas of GenieMobile Show 201 by mike mcallen

mike mcallen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:21:18 +0000

Hehe

Well that is to bad. Its a quick trip for me and I need to now record a bunch of podcasts for you!!!

Happy Holidays Traci

Mike

Comment on Interview with Michael Douglas of GenieMobile Show 201 by Traci Browne

Traci Browne — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:17:26 +0000

I’m going to miss that one again this year. Too many trips west so I have to start getting pretty choosey about what I’m attending. And besides…I don’t need to go, I can just listen to the podcasts

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Comment on Interview with Michael Douglas of GenieMobile Show 201 by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:55:27 +0000

Thanks for listening Traci! Michael is a smart cookie and the system is really awesome. Are you headed to PCMA or Virtual Edge in January?

Mike

Comment on Interview with Michael Douglas of GenieMobile Show 201 by Traci Browne

Traci Browne — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:52:14 +0000

I second your opinion Mike! Just saw their app at Expo! Expo! last week and was very impressed. These guys understand conferences and trade shows and their app shows it. I often say, “an app’s an app’s an app”, but this one knocked my socks off. It is a godsend to the small conference organizer as well due to its ease of use and its price.

Comment on Tools for Engaging Meeting Audiences by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:06:29 +0000

Thanks Brian for weighing in on this…. I am sure there are other great services.
Mike

Comment on Tools for Engaging Meeting Audiences by Brian Weck

Brian Weck — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:12:43 +0000

Sorry, so late finding this post.

In my opinion, Pond 5 is a decent alternative to iStockphoto and the rest of the microstock gang. Another tool that I rely on is StockFuel at http://stockfuel.com, plenty of decently priced videos and photos there.

Comment on Tahira Endean from EventCamp Vancouver Show 186 by Podcast – How will Event Camp Vancouver benefit you? « eventcampvancouver

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:16:07 +0000

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Comment on EventCamp Europe Virtual Attendee Roundup Show 184 by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:14:52 +0000

Thanks for putting together EventCamp Europe Ruud! I don’t think when we started EventCamp we would ever dream it would go international! You guys did a great job!

Thanks for listening!

Mike

Comment on EventCamp Europe Virtual Attendee Roundup Show 184 by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:13:07 +0000

Thanks Traci

I always love chatting with Greg. Such a funny smart cat! Thanks for listening!

Mike

Comment on EventCamp Europe Virtual Attendee Roundup Show 184 by Traci Browne

Traci Browne — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:00:31 +0000

I love these conversations you and Greg have. I feel like I’m sitting at a hightop in a bar with you guys!

Comment on EventCamp Europe Virtual Attendee Roundup Show 184 by Ruud Janssen

Ruud Janssen — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:58:52 +0000

Hi Mike and Greg, Really enjoyed listening to this PODcast reflecting on the Event Camp Europe experience. Your honest and constructive feedback helps the learning around what we intend to do as co-founders of Event Camp Europe. Also enjoyed hanging out briefly in your Google Hangout on the day itself while at Down Hall. I think the options of multiple connectivity while something is going on live is very powerful.

Couple of remarks on the content:
Elling Hamso is based out of Norway and you can find him here: @ehamso and on http://www.eventroi.org

The content will be available post event for the sessions you missed on http://www.eventcamp.eu/live and we will be publishing news capsules around the specific sessions.
More links can be found on Lanyrd (who were also present onsite in Down Hall) and I’ve taken the liberty of adding your podcast there as well… http://lanyrd.com/2011/eceu/

Thanks for the reviews and feedback and look forward to further comments. We will be doing a full survey on the ROI of this event including the explanations of why certain questions are being asked. Appreciate your help in spreading the word on that once it comes out later today to get the benchmark of the 3 audiences!

Best regards,

Ruud Janssen
@ruudwjanssen
co-founder Event Camp Europe

Comment on Event Camp Silicon Valley Pod Discussion – Show 183 by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:20:41 +0000

Thanks Tracie for listening. I forgot about the Philly Eventcamp and I thought it was done in the Adrian Segar Conferences that Work fashion. I do think we should have more unconferences. The first year we did this and did not have many signups at all. (In fact I think Adrian was one of the only ones who did) So many Industry events now cover what we started to cover at the first EventCamp so having an unconference might be the the way to go. I had one of the speakers at EventCamp Silicon Valley bow out because he thought it was an unconference type of an event and when he found out it was a traditional one he dropped out. In hindsight, I should have listened to him.
I woke up at 5am the first day to make sure all our setup was ready for the attendees to interact with EC TwinCities. Made several trips to Fry’s, beg borrowed and stole to have everything ready. Many of our attendees/sponsors left because they said it was like watching television. I was so frustrated that day. I slept the night and decided to come in at 8am instead of earlier and try to enjoy the next day without frustration. I did this by talking with my fellow attendees laughing and looking at other technologies. One of the Pod attendees Quan showed us Google hangout and she invited the rest of the group to join up. I found the POD comrade we had together was the most beneficial thing I got out of EventCamp TwinCities.
I wont go into what I/we ended up spending on this whole thing….. but as they said. “We make the mistakes so you don’t have to”

Thanks for the comment

mike

Comment on Event Camp Silicon Valley Pod Discussion – Show 183 by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:03:41 +0000

Sue-
First thanks for listening. Glad you had a good experience on your end. I also enjoy an experimental nature of EventCamp and that is why I started it with Jeff, Christina, Mike and Jessica. Sadly, this eventprofs crowd can be very enthusiastic and equally brutal. But it is a learning experience for all involved each time. I learned a ton from putting together EventCamp Silicon Valley, much I would like to forget. Again, in the same way I appreciate all the work Sam, Ray and gang put into having another EC Twin Cities. Next time I will either go to the event or experience it with my dogs as you did. I think my EventCamp producing days are over. Thanks for the comment.

Mike

Comment on Event Camp Silicon Valley Pod Discussion – Show 183 by Brandt Krueger

Brandt Krueger — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:23:38 +0000

Hi guys, listened to the podcast, and can’t say as I disagree with much of your analysis. I would urge some caution when it comes to the sponsors, and I’ve written up a post on the subject: http://wp.me/pSVmS-66

As I say in the article it makes me sick to think that any of the sponsors names might be tarnished by the experience. I can’t remember if it was Mike or John (I was listening at 250% speed) but you guys even touched on this. “Who wants to hire a production company from an event that had issues?” and “I run a production company and I would have fixed it” (paraphrasing). Yeesh. So now what are we supposed to do? We supported this event because we want to support cutting edge meeting production. We performed IMHO amazingly well, and the guys pulled stuff out of you know where that they didn’t even know they could do. We fixed what we could fix, and you can testify that in the end I made a solution that would have worked on a pod by pod basis, only to run out of time (we had a hard out at 2pm and struck that biznatch in an about an hour). I’m not looking for a pat on the back, I’m just trying to be clear from my perspective.

The guys tried a lot of things, and an unfortunate amount of them went south. It could have just as easily gone the other way and I could be kicking myself right now for not getting our name out more, but it didn’t. Now all we can do as sponsors is hope that the positive outweighs the negative.

As for malice, you’ll get none from me. And if it’s something I can take away and make better in the future, you can be damn sure I will. BTW in my original draft for that post I digressed into the Philly Pod and the Silicon Valley Pod in a cage match. Ready? FIGHT!!

Comment on Event Camp Silicon Valley Pod Discussion – Show 183 by Traci Browne

Traci Browne — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:05:37 +0000

FYI…EventCamp East Coast (Philly last year and DC this year…November 4-6…www.eventcampeastcoast.com) are true unconferences/bar camps. All attendees decide on the session topics at the event.

As the Philly Pod leader I completely agree about the game confusion. We spent most of our time trying to figure out what to do with the game that we didn’t have time to actually play it. There was no one we could ask questions of because Emilie didn’t have access to the speakers while they were on stage or in the main room. We found that the game was taking away not only from our time to socialize and network and reflect on what we were experiencing. It was also taking us away from the “virtual” experience with Emilie and her speaker interviews. On day two we just bailed on it because we could see no value or make any connections to any learning experience. Without access to the game designer to ask questions, your virtual pod host should have instructions given days in advance so we know how to access and understand the point of the challenge. Also, take into consideration the fact the pod is 40-60 seconds behind when you give a three minute challenge.

Our POD was very disappointed in the fact that we didn’t get skyped in at any time. I also put a lot of time into planning this and Jeff Halligan from Dyventive put in time and donated their expertise and equipment (camera, laptops, screens, etc.) but they were never put to use other than us waving at the camera. However our participants did each pay $50 to attend to cover basic costs for the event. The common sentiment even on the first day was that we were abandoned. We ended up being 12 people in a room watching TV.

We definitely learned a lot from this and I do hope the organizers are willing to listen to our feedback (without malice) to learn from the experience.

Comment on Event Camp Silicon Valley Pod Discussion – Show 183 by Sue Pelletier

Sue Pelletier — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:32:35 +0000

Funny how we took some of these things differently! I loved the experimental nature of it, even when things went wrong, and applaud the companies that were wiling to go out on a limb. Before implementing some of this stuff, I learned from watching ECTC11 to test, test, test, test any technology before going live with it. But even then, stuff happens, whether it’s a video feed or an overhead projector, stuff always happens. Key is to be able to keep things moving when they do hit the fan.

Totally agree that it was confusing and a bit of an overload, especially at first. But all that confusion and overload actually worked for me. I was like a lab rat running from place to place trying to earn some cheese–totally addicted to jumping from challenge to badge to Twitter feed to my team’s Twitter feed to actual sessions. Though for all that activity, I’m not sure how much I actually learned. Hmm.

I wanted to check out (virtually, alas) the Silicon Valley EventCamp the day before, but I just couldn’t take that much time out of last week. Maybe if you had spaced it a little differently, it would have drawn more virtual folks, anyway. The timing made sense for locals, of course.

Thanks for sharing the pod experience. I think my experience (and my expectations) probably would have been different if I had been in a pod instead of sitting in my office with just my dog for company.

Comment on Top 20 Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite Events by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:20:05 +0000

Very cool! I will check it out!
mike

Comment on Top 20 Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite Events by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:19:31 +0000

Thanks Travis

Comment on Top 20 Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite Events by Travis Tucker

Travis Tucker — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:36:38 +0000

Really cool list. Some really useful stuff here. Thanks Mark!

Comment on 5 Cool Interactive Video Production Ideas by Icecube Media

Icecube Media — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:16:58 +0000

Hi,

I am absolutely agree interactive videos definitely engage the visitors

Comment on Value, Price and Customer Service by Jon Trask

Jon Trask — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:28:01 +0000

Thanks for posting Miguel, I appreciate your comments.
I too feel strongly that any event I put my name to have quality and value attached by my involvement, otherwise I wouldn’t feel that I’d done my job properly.

Yet, I wonder how do we better define and demonstrate what we add to an event since everyone out there has a slightly different definition of “quality” or “value” in the services that we provide….And at the end of the day, do the final clients even notice or understand what you and I might define as our personal level of value and quality in the work that we do?

So, I now ask myself if “good enough” is now okay with planners as long as the price hits the target for them?
And if that’s reality now…what does that mean to all of us in the industry over the longer-term?
Thanks again!
Jon

Comment on Value, Price and Customer Service by Miguel Neves

Miguel Neves — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:02:05 +0000

Great article Jon! As a meeting professional I feel that it is my duty to make any and all events that I put my name to have real value and demonstrate quality. It is always disappointing when an event partner does not do the same.

Comment on Does Your Event Drive Conversations Or Dialog With Your Customers? by Events Security

Events Security — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:52:10 +0000

It’s very important to get customers involved and talking at your events. It provides a great deal of feedback and spreads the word on how great / poor your event is / was. It can be the process of holding the event yearly!

Comment on Top 20 Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite Events by Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:42:05 +0000

sounds pretty cool… Have a link we could check out?

Comment on Top 20 Meeting Planner iPad Apps for Onsite Events by Lisa McGrath

Lisa McGrath — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:18:31 +0000

We also have an iPhone app to help Event Managers manage their floor plans from the iPad. Exhibitors can also manage their profiles.