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Practice what we preach: Breathing life into curated content

Aaron Wolowiec

Titled “Curating Conference Content to Promote Member Engagement,” this session delivered five simple, but effective strategies for curating conference content. During the program, a simple poll question was asked: “Does your organization currently curate content in some way following your major annual meeting?” Recordings.

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Speaker coaching: The key to unlocking top-rated conference sessions

Aaron Wolowiec

PowerPoint slides are overwhelmed by too much content. Encouraged speakers to limit their content and slide decks, plan appropriately for practice and feedback time, park unrelated topics and leave time at the end of their sessions for questions, feedback and evaluations. Do these sound familiar?

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Don’t let your speakers get schooled by a 4 year old

Aaron Wolowiec

Do you coach speakers beforehand to ensure accurate/engaging content? They’re content experts. So gather and share your best PowerPoint slide recommendations and hands-on exercises for optimal outcomes. Do you take good care of your speakers to ensure they have an enjoyable experience before, during and after your program?

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Time for a MOOC-like makeover

Aaron Wolowiec

Professional and industry associations … don’t have obligations to a tenured faculty, so they can recruit faculty based on what content is in high demand; and their members are applying new knowledge and techniques in the field, giving them the ability to provide valuable job-related training,” the authors wrote.

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18 tips for negotiating with speakers

Aaron Wolowiec

Included here may be research time to develop unique content, custom Prezi or PowerPoint presentations, innovative instructional strategies, interactive learning exercises, engaging discussion topics and supplementary handouts.

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Advancing association meetings via brain science

Aaron Wolowiec

Audiences tend to check out after only 10 minutes of content. The power of visual tools such as PowerPoint, Prezi, videos, handouts and job aids should not be underestimated. And if you can stimulate more of the senses at the same time, all the better for creating memorable content. We don’t pay attention to boring things.

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