So in effect Google has hammered another nail in the coffin for Adobe Systems’s software Flash which is widely criticized for its security vulnerabilities.

Some presentation management solutions still use Flash to enable PowerPoints to be presented during conferences and meetings.

eventSPRING proposes a seamless, safe, HTML5 solution. Saves you from Flash

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What you can do with GoToMeeting (GTM):

• Connect online with people to talk, share video-camera, share a person’s screen, share control of a computer. Who can do what is controlled by any of the organizers.
• Before the online meeting: invitation tracking and document sharing.
• After: polling can be conducted and recording can be shared.

What you can do with eventSPRING:

A tool to organize more efficiently structured meetings with presentations:

• Build an agenda that is shared online with multiple agenda-items and rooms
• Enable speakers and not only organizers to upload their presentations
• Make sure presentations are compatible to be presented in any conference room with an elegant agenda to navigate through the meeting presentations
• Enable presenting in any room with or without Internet connection

To conduct an online structured meeting with presentations:

• Before: use eventSPRING to prepare the agenda, to send the invitations including the GoToMeeting hyperlink, and for speakers to upload presentations and handouts.
• During: Organizer opens eventSPRING to access the event’s Run mode and present through it. Organizer uses GoToMeeting to share his computer screen. Organizer can use GoToMeeting to record and to chat. Online participants access GoToMeeting.
• After: use eventSPRING to give access to recordings per day and room

What’s the best use for eventSPRING?

• Any meeting internal/external with a few speakers who have presentations
• External meetings (roadshows, workshops like day-training-of-hairdresser or maybe? day-training-of-dermatologist)
• Small and medium conferences

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LinkedIn™ is by far the leading social network for conducting business networking, sharing business opinions, engaging in business conversations. LinkedIn is the one big network though small business social networks include Viadeo in France and Xing in China.

It is important to note that LinkedIn users read more than they post so only a small number of users are very active on LinkedIn: opinions expressed on LinkedIn need to be filtered and adjusted.

With LinkedIn, eventSPRING listens to target customers
Listening is beneficial so that we can adjust the marketing message. First I select relevant industry groups. Then I read posts shared within the Group

With LinkedIn, I can share my thoughts and thus promote my brand
As I read the posts, I can indicate i like a post, share my own comments or re-share posts.

With LinkedIn, I expand the network and recruit Prospects and Promoters
I try to engage with people who may be interested in what eventSPRING has to offer by proposing to connect or sendings inmails.

With LinkedIn, I gain customers
And of course, I use LinkedIn to keep the connection active with potential customers.

Follow eventSPRING on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eventspring

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From The Economist Espresso: Quote of the day

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eventSPRING is an easy-to-use solution to organize meetings, big and small, with agendas, speakers and presentations:

• invite, collect replies and send reminders,
• build and share event agendas always up-to-date,
• collect presentations from speakers,
• share event material with participants and present at the meeting with or without an Internet connection.

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Benefits of technology for your conference include increasing revenue durably and saving money durably.

The aspect of your conference that technology can impact are innumerable.

Basically every step in the process of setting up and running an event can be helped by technology. The help software solutions can bring and the impact of that depends on the conference’s size, complexity, and positioning.

Conferences are different in their needs:

• How many participants?
• How many organizers work simultaneously on the scheduling?
• How many days and rooms are included in the schedule?
• How many agenda items and speakers are planned per day and room?
• Do participants pay to participate? More a flat fee or more a complex calculation with options?
• What budget do you have for your event?
• What do your speakers, moderators, attendees, chairs, committee members, sponsors, etc. expect in terms of technological tools?

And technology can help at different levels:

• Project management
• People management
• Scheduling
• Content management
• Marketing and communications
• Infrastructure

eventSPRING provides an easy-to-use online solution that focuses on three dimensions of your conferences’ technological needs:

• People management: Invite participants, collect replies and send reminders.
• Scheduling: Build and share event agendas always up-to-date.
• Content management: Collect presentations from speakers. Share event material with participants and present at the meeting with or without an Internet connection.

Watch a video to understand how eventSPRING can help you:

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Active participants are engaged in the event and contribute to it fluidly, sometimes unknowingly through small things, like asking questions. We will focus here on engaging the participants before and during the event.

Why get event participants active

Their energy level goes up. Their attention is more taken. Their ability to share within the event and network is increased. And most importantly their satisfaction goes up, the overall perception of the event’s success goes up and so does the probability the participant will be back.

People are often more engaged in an event when they contribute to it. It ‘s well known that if you get something “free”, you value it less than if you have payed for it. And also you will value a piece of work more if you have chipped in.

How a participant can be active

Some ways a participant can engage:

• Proposing ideas / making suggestions for the event
• Voting on ideas/suggestions for the event
• Providing real-time feedback of the event’s components
• Collaborating to establish the events basics: its name, objectives, etc.
• Contributing a relevant piece of content
• Sharing a piece of content
• Mentioning / promoting the event online to contacts or social media group(s)
• etc

How to help a participant be active

• Give access to and promote to participants availability of preparatory material
• Open up channels to collaborate (feeds, collaborative spaces, etc.)
• Give many ways and opportunities for participants to write their ideas/input and make sure that input is displayed transparently

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Author: William Blake (1757-1827)

O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
Through the clear windows of the morning, turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!

The hills tell one another, and the listening
Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turn’d
Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth
And let thy holy feet visit our clime!

Come o’er the eastern hills, and let our winds
Kiss thy perfumèd garments; let us taste
Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
Upon our lovesick land that mourns for thee.

O deck her forth with thy fair fingers; pour
Thy soft kisses on her bosom; and put
Thy golden crown upon her languish’d head,
Whose modest tresses are bound up for thee.

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FCC fines a hotel for interfering with wifi transmissions

In 2014, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has fined a hotel chain $600,000 for having jammed mobile hotspots following the complaint of an event participant. The context as described by the FCC is that in March 2013, the FCC received a complaint from an individual who had attended an event at the Gaylord Opryland, a hotel. The complainant alleged that the Gaylord Opryland was “jamming mobile hotspots so that you can’t use them in the convention space”. The hotel chain admitted that one or more of its employees used containment features of a Wi-Fi monitoring system to prevent consumers
from connecting to the Internet via their own personal Wi-Fi networks.

The decision’s background refers to section 333 of the Communications Act: “No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this Act or operated by the United States Government.” The decision goes on to note that the FCC’s position is clear and has always been “the use of jammers to interfere with Wi-Fi transmissions violates Section 333”.

=> to learn more, access the FCC decision: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-14-1444A1.pdf

And now FCC repeats: “WARNING: Wi-Fi Blocking is Prohibited”

The FCC insists as it warns: “Persons or Businesses Causing Intentional Interference to Wi-Fi Hot Spots Are Subject to Enforcement Action”

And then the FCC writes a concise paragraph to remind us the values that underly their decision and the need to enforce those values: “In the 21st Century, Wi-Fi represents an essential on-ramp to the Internet. Personal Wi-Fi networks, or “hot spots,” are an important way that consumers connect to the Internet. Willful or malicious interference with Wi-Fi hot spots is illegal. Wi-Fi blocking violates Section 333 of the Communications Act, as amended.1 The Enforcement Bureau has seen a disturbing trend in which hotels and other commercial establishments block wireless consumers from using their own personal Wi-Fi hot spots on the commercial establishment’s premises. As a result, the Bureau is protecting consumers by aggressively investigating and acting against such unlawful intentional interference.”

=> to read more: http://www.fcc.gov/document/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibited

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Before the meeting

• Define the purpose of the meeting
• Draft an agenda
• Select possible participants and invite them
• Decide the basics of the meeting (in person or remote, start/end date and time, venue for the meeting)
• Finalize and distribute agenda with roles assigned for each slot like speakers, moderators, scribes, etc.
• Collect and share as needed supporting material and presentation material
• Secure and verify presentation equipment and meeting logistics

During the meeting

• State the purpose of the meeting
• Display agenda updated as needed
• Stick to the agenda, stay on-time
• Have a place to track decisions, agreed upon next steps, parking lot for new topics, etc.
• At the end of the meeting run through decisions and next steps and schedule follow-up meeting if needed

Follow-up to the meeting

• Distribute followup minutes (decisions, next steps and invite for follow-up meeting)
• File minutes and documents in a place where you can easily find them
• Track delivery of next steps

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