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7 Design Considerations for Your Conference Hub

Velvet Chainsaw

The Promenade, a hub experience at PCMA’s Convening Leaders 2022, in Las Vegas. High-tech user conferences like Dreamforce and Microsoft Ignite have been designing innovative hub spaces to engage and nurture their top customers for years.

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A New Power Couple—Humans Plus Bots Deliver Member Delight

.orgSource

One of the biggest perks for organizations is cost. Last week I mentioned Rose, the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan Hotel’s digital concierge. Personal interaction makes customers who chat three times more likely to buy. Instant gratification leaves customers more satisfied and improves their overall experience.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.27.20

Reid All About it

Risking innovation. Future Forward: Innovation and Resilience. Lori Pugh Marcum, CMP, CMM, HMCC, CED, Head of Meeting Innovation, Meeting Professionals International. Lori Pugh Marcum, CMP, CMM, HMCC, CED, Head of Meeting Innovation, Meeting Professionals International. Seems obvious, but most of us don’t do it.

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That’s so…2013

Aaron Wolowiec

The wave of scrutiny that started in 2012 with revelations about a lavish General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas grew higher this year as reports of excessive spending on meetings by the IRS and Department of Veterans Affairs came to light. Out: Expert-driven education. In: Peer-to-peer learning.

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Happy Birthday to Us

Virtual

Formally unveiled at the Networld/Interop conference in Las Vegas on May 12, 1999, The ASP Industry Consortium grew to more than 800 corporate members in 18 months and established a global ecosystem to promote this new computing paradigm.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

LMS provider WBT Systems writes about instructional design innovations that associations could borrow from “ModPo” and a few other award-winning MOOCs. Recognize the difference between soft and hard costs. A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. 1 CMP credit. More info/register. 1 CAE credit.

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House Report: Poor Leadership Led to VA Conference Spending Spree

Associations Now

After Ouster, Lessons Learned Martha Johnson, the former GSA administrator who resigned in April 2012 after revelations the agency spent $800,000 on a Las Vegas conference, is detailing some of the leadership lessons she learned as head of the agency in a new book, On My Watch: Leadership, Innovation, and Personal Resilience.