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CLE Providers Already Have Community Managers; Challenge Is to Get Them Online

August 7, 2010

When you get right down to it, continuing legal education is about relationships. It’s about the relationships between providers and speakers; the relationships between providers and their legal communities; the relationships between speakers and attendees; and the relationships among attendees. And, of course, it’s about education, but the best way to ensure a quality educational [...]

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Something to Talk About

March 20, 2010

The Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference has been over for more than a week, but online you find that many attendees are still talking about and learning from it. First, there have been a number of posts on the conference. Lance Godard was kind enough to collect some here. Then you have LMA twitterers who simply [...]

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From the Archives: EventVue, Twitter, Kevin O’Keefe and #ACLEA

January 29, 2010

I don’t have time to be writing this post right now. I should be packing up for my trip to the ACLEA (Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators) Conference in Orlando tomorrow. But yesterday I set our conference hashtag (#ACLEA) on the recently relaunched EventVue platform (if you’re going to or interested in the conference, [...]

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Where This Blog Is Heading

July 27, 2009

I've been dreadfully delinquent and I know it. I haven't stopped caring–I've just been deciding how to refocus given my new position. What I've decided, generally, is that my posts will focus more and more on continuing legal education, rather than on events in general. After all, it's what I do. And our industry is [...]

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The Conference Industry Might Learn a Thing or Two from Bookstores

March 13, 2009

Image by James Cridland via Flickr When I was in college, I worked at Barnes & Noble. The place was busy open to close. I have vivid memories of heated exchanges with women who came to buy Princess Di memorabilia books only to learn we were sold out. I have even better memories of customers [...]

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Twitter Event Chat Tonight – #eventprofs

February 23, 2009

Just a quick post to point you to the Eventprofs Twitter Chat, an initiative started by Ready2Spark. She's started a weekly chat (Mondays, 9pm EST), the agenda will be driven by you, and it's shaping up to be great. Instructions for participating are here.

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Are Attendees and Individuals Redefining the "Virtual Event" As We Know It?

February 16, 2009

I've been preparing to moderate a panel on virtual technology for the Green Meeting Industry Council's annual conference at the end of this month, so I've been thinking a lot about virtual events. Watching a couple of conferences online over the last couple of weeks (MeetDifferent and Legal Tech NY) got me thinking about a [...]

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Didn't Make It to MeetDifferent this Year? You Don't Have to Miss All the Fun.

February 8, 2009

There are still ways to keep real-time pace with the discussions they'll be having this year. Tune in to the opening general session today at 10:00 am EST (information on Meet Different's website). Follow it on Twitter. Several attendees are talking about it and you can easily track their comments because they mark them #meetdifferent [...]

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It's More Than Online Reputation Management (and Why "Podunk" Blogs Matter)

January 22, 2009

Meetings and Conventions Magazine has a great article this month on online reputation management for event planners. Most of the experts interviewed agreed that you should both be monitoring and responding to online conversations (whether glowing or scathing) about your event or organization. By doing so, you get the obvious benefit of having your response [...]

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