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Superevent-The ultimate app to power all your events. IMEX Fresh Dinner App sponsor

Posted May 6th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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We started Superevent because we noticed that meeting people and networking is increasingly   becoming the main reason to attend professional events, while the content is the shared interest that connects us.

This got us thinking, because the networking tools that organizers provide are non-existent or basic at best.
When was the last time you got access to the attendee
list? Or did you not…

With Superevent we aim to provide the best tools to facilitate (professional) meetings and events, for all stakeholders.
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TapCrowd: Connecting the online and physical world through mobile.

Posted April 15th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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Mobile communications platform


The TapCrowd app building platform allows event organisers to easily create a professional mobile app for their event. The platform offers all necessary functionality to offer the best mobile event app available today to your visitors. Updating content or changing the look and feel of your app is easy as pie. Updates are live instantly!

For trade shows, conferences and corporate events

Mike Coumnas from SendSteps,FRESH13 Best Meeting Tool Award Winner, explains how their tool works

Posted February 25th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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Sendsteps wins FRESH Award 2013 for “Best Meeting Tool”

Mike Coumans, Sendsteps EIBTM 2012 from Meeting Support Institute on Vimeo.

19 Tech Technology Tools to Engage Participants

Posted March 4th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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Here are 19 technology tools to improve conference and event engagement before, during and after an event

MINT a cell phone service from Delegia

Posted July 12th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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MINT is a cell phone service that connects participants with each other during the event. It provides the user with a number of features to increase participants' opportunities to get involved, meet people and orientate themselves during large meetings.

MINT has a “matching” feature which links together people with similar professional interests. The user can create contact lists and send messages to those included. The user is also able to view the program for the event, seminars, and book and receive reminders for booked seminars.

Must Electronic Gadgets Disrupt our Face-to-Face Conversations?

Posted February 12th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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EXCERPT:

Over the last century, advances in technology
have massively expanded our choice of
ways to connect to each other. Nevertheless
our original means of communicating –
talking face to face – persists as the most
immediate, natural, and universal means we
have of communicating. Conversing face
to face, we have at our disposal not only the
full richness of our spoken language, but
also a nonverbal vocabulary that includes

Impact of Laptops on Meetings

Posted February 12th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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ABSTRACT
We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding
of how conversation is affected by computer use.
We videotaped five workplace meetings, noting the disruptions
that occurred, and recording people’s disengagements
when they performed tasks with paper or with laptops. We
saw evidence that people preferred these disengagements
not to exceed 10 seconds. When tasks were performed on
laptops, disengagements were more likely to exceed this

Conferences Need To Focus On Creating Experiences, The E Of EPIC Conferences

Posted August 24th, 2012 by dominika.fudala
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(Jeff Hurt) Imagine it’s 2084.

You are craving a new experience that you’ve not had in the past.

You decide to visit Rekall to get a memory implant of a new vacation experience.

This is the setting of the 1990 movie Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger or the 2012 remake with Colin Farrell.

While Total Recall is set in the future, it is a perfect illustration of today’s society that is consumed with collecting experiences.

MAGENCY. New MSI Sponsor Member!

Posted June 12th, 2012 by mireia.iglesias
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Expert in innovative and experiential tablet solutions, Magency designs connected and interactive content for your professional events.

Be ready for a digital journey:

Break the ice
Play life size games with HD tablets
Participate with tailor-made applications
Be amazed by our digital performers
See how this technology solution works for meetings and events in the following videos:

Meeting Support Institute at IMEX Frankfurt

Posted April 18th, 2012 by mireia.iglesias
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Meeting Support Institute would like to invite you to join and follow our program during IMEX Frankfurt.
We are really looking forward to see you there!



Tuesday, 22th May 2012.
FRESH Dinner. Early Bird only until Monday, 21st April!
MSI is organizing the successful FRESH dinner. This is the place to gather with meeting industry friends, such as meeting planners, meeting designers, technology supplier, actors, etc.

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