Doug Fox -- The Future of MeetingsExploring the future of face-to-face and virtual meetings.(Untitled)- February 28, 2003 Crazy Not to Blog... So how come you've not created a weblog to promote your meetings, seminars, conferences and tradeshows If you're a CEO or top executive of a conference or other face-to-face gathering, you're crazy not to blog. You may think that weblogs are the terrain of some geeky tech nerds who are hanging out on the outer edges of the solar system, but that is NOT the case. Back to Alan Meckler - who has the front-runner advantage and status for being the one and only executive of.http://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/28.html#a133 (Untitled)- February 28, 2003 Conference Blogging Examples Lance Knobel in reponse to my request for examples of conference blogging emailed me the following I ran the World Economic Forum&146;s Davos summit 1999-2000. With about a month to go to the 2000 Davos, with the encouragement of Dave Winer I started blogging (before the word existed) to help Davos participants get a better understanding of the meeting, and to get the most out of their experience. The art of this has moved on considerably, but I think my entries...http://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/28.html#a132 (Untitled)- February 28, 2003 Upgrades to My Blog This weekend I'll add a list of bloggers to the navigation bar to the right. I'll have the regular list of weblogs that I like and those related in some way to meetings - education, wireless, handhelds, facilitation and related weblogs. Two other categories of links I'll add over time are - 1) a list of conference bloggers - groups of people who are blogging from a conference and 2) bloggers that speakpresent. I think second category will be fun - It will have links to...http://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/28.html#a131 (Untitled)- February 28, 2003 Meckler on Me I got to think about this one. I'll comment later. Captain Smith Update. Lots to talk about! Doug Fox of the Future of Meetings does not like my tone or the way I... Alan Mecklerhttp://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/28.html#a130 (Untitled)- February 28, 2003 More on Meckler Alan Meckler continues in his mission to build something better than Comdex. OK, I just subscribed to his news feed. You know, I wish all CEO's would write a weblog -- yeah, Dave, Alan is worth watching. He is getting weblogs very quickly. A CEO that gets weblogs is an exciting thing to watch! (There aren't many of them). Does your boss weblog Tell me about it.The Scobleizer Webloghttp://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/28.html#a129 (Untitled)- February 28, 2003 Glen Fleishman on Hotel Wi-Fi Check out 80211b News blog for latest on Wi-Fi developments at hotels and WiFi in general - here's update about Marriott plans. Marriott pushes further: Marriott hotels, including the brands Marriott, Renaissance, Courtyard, Residence Inn, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn and SpringHill Suites, have 200 properties set up with Wi-Fi--although the extent isn't mentioned in any article (rooms, meeting spaces, public areas). They plan to unwire 200 more with Intel's...http://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/28.html#a128 (Untitled)- February 28, 2003 Emergent Groups in Action When you boil things down, there are two ways to market a meeting: 1) You can build an audience, or 2) You can find an existing audience. For most of human history - a bit of exaggeration - you had to pursue the regular range of marketing tactics to build your audience - direct mail, advertising, PR, radio ads and the rest. More recently you can use the Internet (email marketing, website, search engines and other Internet marketing tools). But what if you grabbed the...http://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/28.html#a127 (Untitled)- February 27, 2003 Intel and Marriott Promote Wi-Fi Intel, Marriott make room for Wi-Fi. The chipmaker and the hotelier announce a campaign to promote high-speed wireless access to the Internet at about 400 hotels in the United States, Canada and Europe. CNET News.comhttp://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/27.html#a126 (Untitled)- February 27, 2003 IACVB Shares Challenges In a home page story, the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) offers a clear and straightforward assessment of the many challenges that cities around the world currently face in their efforts to attract more groupmeeting business. I commend the IACVB for their no-nonsense assessment. I get very tired of reading industry surveys and studies that so clearly have no basis in reality that it's impossible for me to write about them -- they just.http://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/27.html#a125 (Untitled)- February 27, 2003 Capturing Palm Screen Shots For my EventWeb story this week, "Visual Palm Show Guide," I included screen shots of a conference and tradeshow application developed for the Palm OS. Bluefish Wireless developed this app for the Alaska Society for Technology in Education's (ASTE) 2003 Conference, which took place last week. To take the screen shots, Woody Wicks of Bluefish sent me the Palm OS Emulator, the Bluefish viewer and the ASTE show guide. The Palm Emulator lets you run Palm apps on...http://www.eventweb.com/weblog/2003/02/27.html#a124 |