Solution Room #EMEC12 #MPI Budapest Hungary from Ruud Janssen on Vimeo.

The Visual Shift™ | Solution Room Experiment - after a 2 1/2 day conference a 90 minute attendee led session was conducted to enhance the reflection, learning, and change action to change behaviour at the event. With 150 participants with an average of 16 years of industry experience, this session contained the consulting power of 2147 years (!) of experience available to each and every attendee. 

With a visual lineup along an imaginary grid in the room the participants position was illustrated by being part of the visual image of where you stand. This is done before and after the attendee led discussion at their tables where all actively write on visual mindmaps on their tables. 

See the full photostream here:

Inspired on an earlier experiment at #EMEC11 in Dusseldorf based on an idea worth bringing to life by TNOC | Ruud Janssen (http://www.tnoc.ch) 

This video leader is the first installment of documentation of The Visual Shift™ | Solution Room - Experiment at #emec12.

Watch this space for the full Case Study, experience videos and interviews and additional Format Experiments by TNOC | The New Objective Collective and MindMeeting

Tell us about your experiences in participating in the Solution Room or other engageing formats in the comment box below, 

On behalf of the facilitators and co-creators, 

Mike van der Vijver - MindMeeting, Napels, Italy & Zeist, the Netherlands

Ruud Janssen, CMM - TNOC | The New Objective Collective,  Basel, Switzerland

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#MeetDenmark Social Media Workshop 14 + 15 December, Vejle, Denmark - Curious to see how storify can help you tell the story of what participants experience while in your destination?

See an example of how 20 participants engaged in a 36 hour workshop and activate their team spirit to enable digital footprints for Denmark across multiple new channels online using social media. I'm certain this will lead to many upcoming Mindblowing Meetings! 

Thank you to all the participants for your inspiration, perspiration and energy. Carry on in our private collaboration space online and share your progress. Also welcome your comments on this post on your experience during this workshop. What were your key takeaways, what did you learn, what behaviour will you change as a result of having attended this workshop? 

Looking forward to hearing back from you. 

Best regards, 

Ruud Janssen, CMM 

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The forward thinking visionary Giancarlo Carniani laid the foundations to a dedicated event for Buying Tourism Online. Besides managing the responsibilities of the luxurious Villa Olmi Resort in Firenze, he leads possibly one of the most inovative events allowing the supply chain in the hospitality industry meet and integrate with the brightest minds in research and application of the web. Reputation management and digital distribution. Getting business results out of online presence, SEO, geolocation, applications and the evolution of new streams of revenue and BRIC geographies, all topics of concern to the innovators and forward thinking entrepreneurs across multiple industries. It is the the place where Cisco,  Phocusright, Expedia, Booking.com meet with the visionaires, bloggers and entrepreneurs in a very handson environment. This year for the very first time the meetings & events industry has taken to the stage and was featured thanks to the impressive efforts of Nadia Colaiuda of EVENTagist. 

Below an impression of how Nadia Colaiuda, Stefania Conto-Vecchi, Corbin Ball, Maarten Vanneste, Ruud Janssen connected from hashtag #EIBTM11 to #BTO2011. 

How hybrid and connectivity can allow you bring the freshest content from Barcelona to Firenze while building friendships and rich enchanges along the way. 

#EIBTM11 to #BTO2011 a pictorial storyboard by TNOC.ch from Ruud Janssen on Vimeo.

#BTO11 Buy Tourism Online Speaker intro live from EIBTM/Abbitt TV corner from Ruud Janssen on Vimeo.

Link to the rich content links to this MPI Global Training #GCMBE2 session on Lanyrd.com = http://lanyrd.com/2011/gcmbe2-november/coverage/

see the visual story on storify below:

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Pictures tell a thousand words.

Certainly in laying the foundations and cocreating this event, we have many many takeaways in collaboration, organising, hybrid, pods, remote audience, virtual engagament, Open Source as only you can learn by doing.

I want to thank the wonderful contributors to Event Camp Europe, the participants, Live in Pods and virtual, the Sponsors, Technicians, Speakers, our star Virtual Emcee Emilie Barta, our venue(s), Pod organisers, our ROI consultant and co-creator Elling Hamso and Rosa Garriga Mora, the ROI week visitors but most of all those wonderful people crazy enough to venture into such adventure.

Thank you dearly my fellow co-producers of the very first ever Event Camp Europe. You are true stars who made this happen: Jenise Fryatt, Lindsey Rosenthal, Paul Cook for making this adventure one never to forget and one in which we embrace the boundaries of what we know and what we want to learn.

The storify enclosed below is a tribute to all those brave enough to experiment at the boundaries of what we know today. May we someday look back and smile at the frontiers of 2011. I have after reviewing the content and compiling what you see below.

I welcome your comments and thoughts on the effect and impact of events like Event Camp Europe and what else we can do to look around the corner at what's coming our way in the future.

Ruud Janssen, CMM

@ruudwjanssen

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New Motivational Events Book

Watch this space for the launch of a brand new book based on 20 case studies of incentives in multiple industries in destinations and the role of performance rewards in achieving business results. Co-authored by Rob Davidson and Krzysztof Celuch, CMM, CITE.