One of the mysteries of my life since leaving British Leyland is that people have assumed I know about stuff that I have no experience of – in this case, operating a television camera. But this has provided a little entertainment over the years.
Organising conferences overseas can introduce a variety of culture clashes. IN this blog I recall some of the more alarming occasions when cultural differences caused me problems.
There are many stories about professional presenters. Here I recall some of the delightful professionals with whom I’ve worked.
Security has always been an issue in conferences. In this blog I’m looking back at some of the more memorable examples of the use – and abuse – of security at the events that I organised.
Looking back at some of the problems that presenters caused me during my career as a meeting planner.
Meeting planners need to visit the venues they’re going to use. This is a series of recollections of things that went wrong even though the recces had been done.
I’ve been responsible for the conference part of a number of recognition events and here look back at three of the more memorable occasions.
This is a look back at some of the poorly designed conference centres I saw during my working career,
It’s almost fifty years since I had my first phone. This blog looks at some of the changes that have happened over that time.
There have been claims for years that video conferencing would kill off face-to-face meetings. IN reality, the technology has been around for close on 50 years but it wasn’t until 2020 that it really took off.
The exhibition industry has a long history of trying to use technology to enhance the events for visitors. In my early involvement in the industry, the emphasis was on activities to get people onto the stand. For example the stand at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1976 had two celebrities appearing each day to…
Sharing the content of a meeting beyond the original audience was a challenge in my early days. This blog follows the developments that have made the task much easier.
Looking at the way online services have developed since I first dipped my toe in the water at the end of the 1980s,
In an age when scripts, RFPs, schedules and almost anything else can be sent as an email attachment it’s easy to forget that such convenience is a relatively new development. The normal way of sending material when I started organising conferences was by post although Fax machines were beginning to be used by the late…
Over the past 40 years I’ve seen computers make the transition from interesting to essential. This blog records some of the milestones.
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