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23/05/2018

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18/05/2018

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15/05/2018

The Pineapple Effect: Increasing Event Engagement in an Unconventional Way

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-pineapple-effect-increasing-event.html

This post isn't about some way that serving pineapple at your event can magically increase audience engagement. It'd be fantastic if a foo...

06/03/2018

5 Ways to Herd Your Sheep (Aka: Getting your audience back on time)

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2018/03/5-ways-to-herd-your-sheep-getting-your.html

Are your event start times accurate, or merely aspirational? We hear, often, that clients have consistent issues getting their events ...

25/09/2017

20 years ago Live Spark did one of the first examples of for at a .

Since that time, the technology has progressed immensely, but the idea is still novel, fresh, and has the same engaging effect. Watch this cable executive get "Tooned Up"--an experience he was able to take home to his family (Then: VHS tape, Now: Digital sharing on social media).


https://vimeo.com/88524810/35d73b3165

Toon Disney was just launching its cable station and wanted to expose the trade show attendees to their channel. With so many attendees and typical trade show distractions,…

23/08/2017

You can manipulate your audience's perception of your information by manipulating your multiple choice questions.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/08/manipulating-multiple-choice-questions.html

When making game show questions for a game show in a large event, many of our clients don't think much about the effect of the question in...

24/07/2017

How do you make an amazing workshop experience with Intel, Microsoft, and HP? Allow Live Spark to show you how we did it. https://vimeo.com/195025063

Excerpts of an AniMate and Game created for a 90-minute training. Since the focus of the training was security, we brought the "Anonymous Mask" to life…

13/06/2017

Live Spark produced this parody of a "Time Life Music Collection" infomercial to highlight the benefits of Optos' Daytona machine. The audience was a group of 3500+ independent optometrists, and it was voted best in show.

https://vimeo.com/216383398/336ef947a2

Live Spark produced this for Optos to sell the benefits of Daytona - an eye scanning device that detects eye pathologies. Their audience: 3500 Optometrists at…

21/03/2017

Event producers give unreasonable deadlines! Presenters never meet deadlines at all! It's time for: Producers vs. Presenters: Taming the Presentation Deadline Beast

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/03/producers-vs-presenters-taming.html

There is an eternal struggle between the event production team and the presenters (internal and, less frequently, external) to get present...

28/02/2017

"And the Oscar Goes To....": What we can learn from the 2017 Oscars big screw-up.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/and-oscar-goes-to-what-we-can-learn.html

It was a moment in which--I guarantee you--every event producer, or person working with live events, gasped and muttered some version of "...

21/02/2017

The advantages of using your own internal emcee vs. hiring a professional.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-advantages-of-diy-emceeing.html

Last entry we talked about the advantages a professional external emcee has over an internal emcee. ( How to Emcee Your Event Like a Pro...

01/02/2017

What are the professional emcees doing that your internal emcee isn't? Take a look at "How to Emcee Your Event Like a Pro".



http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/how-to-emcee-your-event-like-pro.html

At our events sometimes there is an internal emcee (a member/employee of the company holding the event), and sometimes the emcee is extern...

02/11/2016

4 ways to "Hamilton" your event: Incorporating music to reinforce content.
http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2016/11/4-ways-to-hamilton-your-event.html

I know more about Alexander Hamilton now that I ever learned in school. I've caught friends casually humming the details of Hamilton's ...

29/08/2016

Loved getting to see everyone at these past few days. Back home in Minneapolis, but missing already.

24/08/2016

Dan Yaman will be presenting at on August 27th in Grapevine, Texas. If you're there, come say hi and learn how to design a brain-based event! http://www.connectmarketplace.com/education.html

Earn CMP credits, develop skills and grow knowledge at Connect Marketplace education sessions.

17/08/2016

We hate that Delta Airlines changed their in-flight safety videos. Here is why it's a poor strategy, and what we can learn from Delta's videos--as it applies to events. http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2016/08/deltas-new-safety-videos-losing-course.html

10/08/2016

Dan Yaman is going to be on this afternoon at 5p.m. EST (4p.m. CT). Tune in here: http://offers.helloendless.com/eventicons

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