The BusyEvent Blog

We’ve always admired people that follow their convictions – and sometimes their families – to far flung places in support of the bigger picture.  Especially when those people are smart, open-minded and excited to share their knowledge and contribute to the larger discussion.

Samuel J. Smith is one of those people and it’s why his is one of the blogs we look to for insights and inspiration.   And, the good news is he’s baaaaack from Switzerland, having recently moved to Minneapolis, so something as simple as a phone call doesn’t involve time-zone coordination.

Through his blog and participation in the twice weekly #eventprofs Twitter chat, Sam’s is one of the voices asking the pertinent questions, challenging event professionals to be better, think smarter and focus on value, ROI and universal usefulness.

Because he doesn’t get caught up in the “shiny object” syndrome (or as Warwick Davies puts it, “adopting what’s cool without creating a business case for it“), Sam’s Interactive Meeting Technology blog is a collection of some of the most insightful original thinking about the use of technology to create dialogue with delegates.

And that core capability of BeLinker is what Sam writes about in his latest blog post, Is Your Mingle Stick Poken Attendees in the BeLinker?

Without getting lost in how to use Twitter at your conference, or coming up with a list of conference ideas for business, Sam leverages his broad knowledge of the events industry, attendee trends and the way proprietary devices can be used at events to enhance simple, but meaningful, sponsorship revenue and business driving, goals.

It’s clear that event producers want tools that:

1. accomplish real business goals
2. are easy and fun to use and
3. have a bit of ‘cool factor’ too.

We’re also looking forward to the evolution of BusyEvent in an environment where people like Sam, Warwick and so many other event professionals are working on the real issues at the heart of the events industry.

I Want To Thank The Academy . . . #eventprofs #assnchat #mpi

We’ve been nominated . . . by our peers!

How cool is that?!?!!

Here’s the email we just got from the Event Profs nominating committee:

Hi BusyEvent!

I first wanted to say congratulations for being nominated for the 2009 EventProfs Blog Awards – Best Education Blog!
- http://www.ready2spark.com/2009/09/nominees-have-been-announced.html

Thanks so much & best of luck!

More details to follow . . . let the ballot box stuffing begin!