Ideas from WEC 2015
It is hard to believe that WEC was a week ago already! Most of these ideas pertain to my role as the Attendee
Experience Manager of an education technology association, but hopefully something here will spark an idea for your
event!
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Points or other currency in the mobile app game
can be accumulated to purchase items in your onsite store. (Watch session video here.)
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Have sponsors / exhibitors donate items for
“sale” at the store.
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Find other companies who might participate in
this kind of promotion but who are not typical vendors and would otherwise not
belong in the Expo Hall, but would like to sell to your demographic.
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Sustainability Engagement in the mobile app game
– give points for participation. (Watch session video here.)
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Hotel linen program, walking instead of
shuttles, mobile app instead of printed program, don't use bottled water (or
use re-usable bottle), donate $1 for a tree
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Better assess learning / impact the conference
is having.
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Pre-conference survey sent via email or built
into the app
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Most memorable points for attendees: beginning,
high points (keynotes) and end. (Watch session video here.)
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The Beginning and the end are the loneliest
(especially the end).
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High Impact Learning: Design Your Meeting to
Maximize Audience Engagement with Jeremy Bergwerff and Annette Gregg
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Empathy mapping for each persona (i.e. newbie
vs. veteran): What do they hear/see/say/do?, What is their pain/gain?, How does
that make them feel?
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Question for presenters that communicates our
desire for participatory learning: “What do you want to learn from the audience?”
vs. “What will the audience learn from you?”
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Awesome coincidence – tweet I saw about
#ISTE2015 when I was tweeting about something I heard at #WEC15
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Pictures the event photographer captured of me
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With Jon Trask in the media lounge |
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With Megan Powers at Rendezvous |
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Me tweeting |
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