Are you keeping your audience focused or putting them into a food-induced coma? A plea from the conference-goers of the world to event planners: Please, hold the carbs. READ»
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Would you tell a friend if you found a $50 Lady Gaga concert ticket for $25? Ok, so GrouponLive is likely to involve far less popular artists, but Groupon and Live Nation are betting you'll still spread the word among friends--and help drum up attendance. READ»
Facebook's foray into the checkins game seems to be getting a lot more interesting: According to some reports, the social network is adding checkin buttons to events, if they're timely and nearby to a user.READ»
It OUGHT to be really obvious how to create a proper tag for a conference, but my observation is that 98% of conferences suck at name tags. Maybe more. It makes networking much more difficult / awkward. And it's so damn solvable--no rocket science degree required.READ»
Want to see how an innovative city of the future is created? Join us for our Fast Cities panel on June 22 at the Washington Inn in Oakland, California. A variety of speakers, including Fast Company's own Anya Kamenetz; Ian Kim, ...READ»
Donald’s First Strobe Photographic Steps which can be viewed at http://twitvid.com/96219, represents my initial experiments with the new Muvee Reveal 8 product; a remarkable, modestly-priced, short-cut to bring motion, music and ...READ»
Stemming from a May 2008 Fast Company cover story, contributor Adam Penenberg’s book Viral Loop explores the phenomenon catalyzing the explosive, feedback-driven growth characteristic of today’s social media environment. Join Adam ...READ»
There's a lot of disagreement about how best to move toward a sustainable future, but most everyone agrees on one particular point: our electricity grid, as it stands, is outdated and horribly, horribly inefficient. D.C.'s GridWeek ...READ»
Ahoy, me hearties! While most acceptable guidelines for magazine writing style may condemn opening a paragraph thusly, today all standards for proper English may be set aside, for it's International Talk Like Pirate Day. Created ...READ»
"Mobile." If there's a single buzzword that's caught fire right now, "mobile" is napalm hot. Mobile apps, mobile ads, mobile devices, mobile Internet . . . it seems that the future of just about everything involves packing it to go. ...READ»
Many academic conferences are little more than venues to present research. But is anybody conducting any research on the research? The Living Knowledge Conference aims to do just that. Held at Queen’s University Belfast, Living ...READ»
Everyone’s seen a World War II flick wherein, having touched upon the lowest depths of human misery and the darkest corners in mankind’s soul, you’re so depressed you can hardly enjoy that the good guys won. This is not that ...READ»
Forty years ago this morning, Jimi Hendrix brought down the house to close the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York. Decades later, amid a new era of change, things look suspiciously similar: America is embroiled in ...READ»
Don’t be afraid to raise a glass this weekend at Toastmasters International’s annual convention, but if you do, you’d best not botch the accompanying speech. The organization, whose singular objective is to help members become ...READ»
Event Announcement: Virtual art comes to Brooklyn August 7–23, 2009Exhibition: “Brooklyn is Watching Best of Year One: The Final Five”About The Event:Virtual art comes to Brooklyn. Inside the gallery are five ...READ»
