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Tweeting@Convene Forum Convene Forum attendees and presenters (and followers!) were engaged online — as well as in person — on Oct. 28–30. Check out some of the tweets we read:

@pmeyerphd Looking forward to kicking off @pcmaconvene forum tomorrow! We’ll create Playspace for agile & engaged meetings! #PCMA

Pamela Meyer, Convene Forum speaker and founder of Meyer Creativity Associates

@thomsinger RT @pcmaconvene: biggest obstacle I/we/my organiza- tion faces in terms of innovation and improvement is ________. (People set in their ways)

Thom Singer, speaker and founder of conferencecatatlyst.com

@leislmoriarty The task of leadership is alignment of strengths in ways that make a system’s weakness irrelevant. #pcma #conveneforum

Leisl Moriarty, CMP, associate director of recognition programs and national

conference for NASSP

@scottlum Culture drives results — if it isn’t in line w/your strategy, you’re not going to be successful. @joecalloway #conveneforum RT @pcmaconvene

Scott Lum, content marketing strategy and digital/social marketer for Microsoft

On the Scene At Convene Forum View more behind- the-scenes action at Convene Forum on our Facebook page.

From Convene’s blog (continued)

HANGING OUT WITH KATIE AND SARAH When Senior Editor Barbara Palmer joined Executive Editor Chrisopher Durso and Editor in Chief Michelle Russell at the sec- ond annual Convene Forum at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville on Oct. 28–30, she thought about how she could loop assistant editors Katie Kervin and Sarah Beauchamp — who were keeping this December issue moving along back at their home offices in Brooklyn, N.Y. — into the event. Barbara wrote: “It seemed to be at least worth a

try to use Google+ Hangouts. … My advance preparation was minimal; I checked to make sure that I could connect to Katie and Sarah before I left town. At the Forum itself, my biggest obstacle was trying to figure out where to put my laptop computer — I wanted Katie and Sarah to have the best experience possible, but I also didn’t want to block the view of anyone who was in the room. There were four sessions, and it wasn’t until the very last one that it struck me that I could put the laptop on a chair in front of a table and it would be out of the way. “I had no idea what to expect.

To my surprise — and delight — the sessions came through clearly

At Convene Forum, there was one laptop with a view and two editors virtually in the room.

enough that both were soon lighting up the social-media channels with their observations. There would have been even more blog posts and tweets had Katie not lost power back in New York as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the city — she emailed that the audio was some- times drowned out by the wind. “Clearly there is lots of room for

improvement, but I am excited about the possibilities and eager to learn more about how to make it a better experience for remote viewers.” Read the full post at convn.org/

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Mike Rowan, Experient, is flanked by Kay Witt, Visit Nashville, and Deborah Sexton, PCMA.

Convene Editor in Chief Michelle Russell introduces general-session speaker David Cooperrider.

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