what's new at our meeting

We're working on a slew of new projects for our upcoming Annual Meeting... including:

• A "greener" meeting - no more photocopying zillions of slides, most of which don't mean much to the listener. Instead, speakers get to develop a meaningful one-page handout for listeners to use as the follow along... in combination with...
• Speaker training - we've conducted training (with Jeffrey Cufaude's assistance) to educate our speakers about adult learning principles, the principles of good slide design and how to create effective, useful handouts
• A blog - yes, we're starting a conference blog. I'll post a link once we've got a few posts up.
• A learning guide/workbook. We've reformatted our final program into a workbook, incorporating notes fields following every session, so that learners will be encouraged to use it as a reference.
• Updating the "schedule at a glance." I shamelessly stole this idea from Mike Mason at Communicatio... We got it down to one page, on the back cover of the final program.
• Targeted marketing... see my earlier posts.

I'll report back on how these go over with the attendees, but I'm pretty excited about the changes!