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How the Responsibilities of Conferences Mirror Those of Media Platforms

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Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis , I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. That is why [it] was wrong for Twitter to put a sponsor ahead of users. Users come first “A platform without users is nothing.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

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I’ve lost count of the conference session proposals I’ve made to meeting industry associations that have wound through multiple months-long steps only to be rejected at the last possible moment with no explanation and a boilerplate request to submit more next year. But their inclusion looks good on the promotional materials.