Last week I was fortunate enough to meet President Obama and I am excited to blog about my experience! I will keep it personal not political and as I share my story, I will weave in 4 lessons on effective engagement. The lessons are about: the power of face-to-face meeting; how questions are key to […]
I recently attended a Q&A session with General David Patraeus at The Chicago Council of Global Affairs and wanted to share an interesting point he made regarding a lesson he has learned that apply to the private sector. One of the 1,800 people who attended asked him to define strategic leadership. He answered the question by explaining how he approached the Afghanistan […]
As we speak to more and more people, we have discovered that Weaves can be applied in many situations. As part of a new series of Weaves, we will be building a wide variety of demonstrations to illustrate what we can do. The Senate Weave was built using data from Wikipedia and give some insight into the people who make […]
A couple of recent blog posts by Chris Brogan and Scott Gould on the subject of conferences made us stop and think about how we fit into the range of actions that make a successful conference or meeting. We have been talking to many conference and corporate meeting planners in the last few months and the feedback seems to […]
I was on a call with some meeting planners this week and they shared with me that meeting attendees want more than they did several years ago. Delivering Results Counts. Inspiring Keynotes are no longer enough. These days people, often with more work to do than ever, are looking for practical advice and tools they […]
Since joining the team I’ve been thinking about how the effect of a Weave can be measured. How do you measure the ROI of engagement? What is the ROI of a TED conference? A study released in September 2009 by Oxford Economics USA claims to be the first to measure the ROI of face to face events in […]