Cameron Toth and Social Education

10 Sites To Jump Start Your Board of Directors

2012-02-05T21:37:00.000-08:00

Hello Leaders! No organization is created in a vacuum. Use these tools to jump start your board, board meeting or retreat. 1. Effective Boards from National Center for Nonprofit Boards ...Each individual board member should fully understand and support the organizations mission and purpose. 2. BoardSource.com Building Effective NonProfit Boards ...Exceptional nonprofit boards

10 Catering Tips

2012-01-19T21:04:00.000-08:00

1. Have A Niche. It is hard to sell that you can do everything well. If you do not believe me, try it! If you can not claim that you are the best in your niche than why are you starting/in a business? 2. Have A System For Everything. Whether you do drop off catering or fine dining events have standards that our easy to reproduce. From selling to packing the truck to setting

The Perfect Staff: 8 Ways to Hire Better

2012-01-11T08:21:00.000-08:00

Hopefully, when you read this article's title, you were skeptical. You should be! The perfect staff does not exist. As humans we are not perfect. Highly trained commandos are better suited for combat than a chair bound accountant. But not everyone can be a highly trained commando, or an accountant! Some have the physical and mental drive and some don't. Judging this well in your hiring

Keeping Attendees Engaged to End of Conference

2012-01-11T06:30:00.000-08:00

This question was asked on Linkedin: "Has anyone found an effective way to keep an audience at a multi-day conference - all the way through the last speaker? I have tried lots of things but am still looking for the key." Start the conference focused on your attendees and their individual goals. I have experienced this with Adrian Segar. It is a logistical challenge but have the

Communicating Effectively Using Social Media - #Ectc11 Pecha Kucha

2011-09-02T16:03:00.000-07:00

WATCH MY PECHA KUCHA BY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOWMy presentation starts 57 Minutes and 50 Seconds into this Full Day of Video from Sonic Foundry Media Site. Communicating Effectively Using Social Media begins at 57min:50sec (Full Program) CLICK for Sonic Foundry Video#ECTC11 INTERVIEW - @CameronToth & @LCatRandall by @glennthayer (Video at 01:55:10) http://ow.ly/6kCZ9

Event Camp Sponsor and Tech Response #ectc11

2011-09-01T21:04:00.000-07:00

My Response to Brandt Krueger's Blog Article Entitled On Sponsorship- Initial reflections from ECTC11 and the ensuing comments. @CameronToth linking Facebook to Name-Badge SPONSORSHIP – Sometimes sponsors join a cause or event because they want press and increased business. Sometimes sponsors make a donation to a cause or event because they believe in what the event producers are trying to

Event Camp Twin Cities 2011 Media and Blog Aggregation #ectc11

2011-08-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

Updated 9/8/11 at 9AM EventCamp Physical Program and Journals Event Camp Twin Cities 2011 took place August 25-26 at the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota Campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Below you will find all the links I have come across so far: (Please send me any links that are not listed here and I will include them) Main Web Site: Event Camp Twin Cities | August

MPI World Education Congress 2011 (#WEC11) Blog List

2011-08-09T19:52:00.000-07:00

UPDATED 8/11/11 A listing of relevant #WEC11 blog and article postings. MPI's 2011 World Education Congress took place in Orlando from July 23 to July 26. "Let’s get a few statistics out of the way first: More than 3,500 Hosted Buyer appointments with 225 participating supplier companies 6,579 unique visitors to the WEC Live Online experience A #WEC11 twitter

Twitter: How to get started and gain a healthy following?

2011-08-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

A LinkedIn Question Via Rick Cram: QUESTION: Cameron, what do you recommend to newcomers of Twitter, in terms of what to do first, how to get started, and how to gain a healthy list of followers? 1. When you sign up for Twitter use your name (@firstlast) or a catchy (easy to write) Twitter Handle. 2. If you choose to use a brand name make sure you note who is tweeting from the account on the

Highlights from Malcolm Gladwell's Book "Outliers"

2011-08-07T14:31:00.001-07:00

No time to read Outliers yourself? Or maybe you actually care what I think? Either way I will be posting my highlights from Outliers as I read through. ---------------- August 9, 2011 Highlight from Chapter 1: The Matthew Effect This chapter provides evidential support for how rich getting richer and the poor get poorer. The Matthew Effect, essentially, is the effect of accumulative

The Guide Was Missing #WEC11 (Updated 8-6-11)

2011-07-31T02:07:00.000-07:00

Cleaning up always solves problems. I am here cleaning my desk at 4AM on a Sunday morning. I just came across my conference guide for Meet Different. Aha! That is what the World Education Congress was missing. Yes, we had an App for that, but it was not as good as the Meet Different Conference Guide. First it lays out the theme. Where BOLD Meets Business. Word for word, not the best

Networking: 5 Lessons from MPI's World Education Congress 2011 #WEC11

2011-07-30T23:03:00.000-07:00

Meeting Professionals International Annual Conference took place on July 23-26, 2011. Planners and suppliers converged on Orlando's conference center to educate themselves, promote business interests and have a generally good time. The conference offers some great speakers, many business opportunities and some great parties. Networking is such a large word. It is used to describe many things

Google Goggles: Augmented Reality (Updated 8-6-11)

2011-07-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

When will be able to effectively google the world? Do you know what Google Goggles are? Here is a link to the site: http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text I was never forced into taking a Botany course throughout my public school experience in NYC. As a matter of fact I don't think I even had the option in school. I perhaps, could have sought opportunities as a high school student with

How Tech Changes the Importance of Education

2011-02-26T16:45:00.000-08:00

By: Cameron Toth Simple Jobs The phase out of humans for simple jobs like cashier and beverage/snack vendor has already begun. Jobs that were traditionally filled by low skilled labor are being simply erased by technology. Banks of checkout lines at Home Depot and your supermarket now utilize one higher skilled employee and technology to replace what four cashiers would have done before.

How To Buy A Smartphone

2011-01-13T20:28:00.000-08:00

Aim for a fast 3G/4G phone with a good amount of memory. I moved from a G1 to a G2 and the speed and memory were huge improvements and truly make a smartphone fun. Make sure your phone has one of the big three operating systems (OS). Apple OS, Android (by Google) and Blackberry OS are the standard. You are basically taking the risk of having very little compatibility with other devices or

Engage 365 Post on Event ROI

2010-12-07T22:48:00.000-08:00

Tweet 3 Strategies to Measure Social Media ROI for your Event by Cameron Toth ROI = Return On Investment ROI is a financial term. You can count page clicks until the cows come home but it might never mean that your time and investment have provided financial “return on investment”. What are three ways to measure financial impact? How do we turn front-end investment into long-term

The Importance of Purpose

2010-11-15T13:53:00.000-08:00

Tweet The video below is an amazing presentation by Dan Pink and RSA Animate. Dan's point is that by giving people autonomy, freedom to master skills and freedom to pursue an organizations purpose you will get much better results than by offering large financial awards for success. What does this mean for Community Engagement incentives? How should we be motivating people?

Event Camp East Coast (#ECEC10) Blog Post List and Resources (Updated 01/02/11)

2010-11-14T21:56:00.000-08:00

Tweet Event Camp East Coast 2010 is really getting started on the virtual campaign now. Bloggers, journalists, commentators will all weigh in to help on-site attendees and virtually interested Event Professionals (#eventprofs) to enjoy, understand and refresh on all the great ideas shared and learned from Event Camp! For your referencing pleasure here is a list. As I find more articles I

LEAST Positive and MOST Positive of #EventCamp East Coast (#ecec10)

2010-11-13T13:15:00.000-08:00

Tweet The PEOPLE have been fantastic, amazing and incredibly intelligent. Examples in the "Most Positive" below. We at #ECEC10 designed our conference yesterday and today. We have had one excellent session after excellent session. I have been extremely satisfied with learning sessions that were not set and designed before the conference. There were no pre-arranged speakers and that has

Harry Potter And The Transfixed Cameron

2010-08-27T23:25:00.000-07:00

Tweet Have you been hooked by Harry Potter? Has J.K. Rowling with what seems like simple story telling reeled you into the world she has created where half giants, Centaurs, wizards and witches all freely exist? I did not think it would happen to me. After all, while I enjoyed usually the first go around with the Potter movies they were nothing to write home about. You know. Nothing I

MPI World Education Congress 2010 Opening Session

2010-07-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

Tweet Emmanuel Gobillot was excellent in the Sunday, July 25 opening session of MPI's WEC 2010. He came on after a resounding message about making a difference. His message was clear. Do not waste your time. Your time on this Earth is limited. What you do in this moment affects the next and what you don't do may affect you even more. "Build the emotion that people don't forget." "Have I

Social Media and You!

2010-04-11T21:11:00.000-07:00

Tweet Do you need to always be connected? Can you run a social media campaign or create a strategy that doesn't involve around the clock surveillance and response? I have been on a hiatus from social media for roughly four weeks. It started when I went to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to finalize my wife's visa and bring her and my children back to the US after a full year and two months of forced

Reunited on US Soil, My Family is Back!

2010-04-10T22:14:00.000-07:00

Hello All, My wife's Visa was approved on March 11 and we were soon back in New York after that. I can not express in words how happy and relieved I am to have my wife and kids back under our roof here in the states. My daughter turns four in August and my son turns 2 in May. I am looking forward to celebrating both of these upcoming birthdays in style at our beautiful Valhalla, NY home. I

A CAMERON LIST: Super Songs for Sunday

2010-03-07T09:04:00.000-08:00

A few songs that get me in the mood to work and enjoy life: "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers (http://ow.ly/1ffXE) "Outstanding" by The Gap Band (http://ow.ly/1ffYK) "Sumthin'Sumthin'" by Maxwell (http://ow.ly/1fg2m) "No Te Veo" by Casa De Leones (http://ow.ly/1fggc) "Smooth" by Rob Thomas and Santana (http://ow.ly/1fgji) "You Gonna Make Me Love Someone Else"

“What Event Camp 2010 Can Teach Conferences”

2010-03-06T15:26:00.000-08:00

Tweet Event Camp 2010 was an #eventprofs community generated conference that took place at the Roger Smith Hotel in NYC on February 6, 2010. Community Empower your community to create events and content. One of the greatest lessons from Event Camp was how much the attendees knew. Select great moderators and presenters who can funnel the content and keep a crowd on topic but don’t keep your

Top Five Ways To Engage Using Social Media

2010-02-15T21:09:00.000-08:00

Tweet Top Five Ways To Engage Using Social Media By: @CameronToth Engagement Strategy #1 ~~> Find your relevant audience. Finding your niche will allow you to distribute information to the right people at the right time. Gossip magazines made a killing when they discovered giving their magazine to beauty parlors really got the word out and drove their subscription sales. How

6 Social Media Lessons From The Movie Avatar

2009-12-31T00:54:00.000-08:00

Tweet Two things are on mind. One is the film Avatar and the other is Social Media. In the movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron of Titanic fame, there are several themes that are really very important and striking. But as I have become a Social Media Guy (and watching the movie for the second time this time in English and in 3D) I couldn’t help but coming back to the theme of

How To Use Social Media’s Big Three: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

2009-12-31T00:51:00.000-08:00

Social media is hot! Everyone is talking about the effects of Twitter and LinkedIn and how many users are on Facebook. But how do we utilize these sites for your business and your personal use? How do we turn the buzz into dollars for your company and for your personal gain? We know the social media sites are powerful and that you should be on them. OK, now what? Which social media

Social Media Communication: Selling To And Changing The World

2009-12-27T21:37:00.000-08:00

I have been reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julian Smith. The topic of the book has to with becoming a trusted agent for yourself or your company on the web. They advocate social media in a big way. They tote Social Media as a tidal wave that we can choose to ignore or ride. For those that ride the wave they will enjoy the benefits. For those that choose to

December Show at Randolph - SBI College and Career Preparatory Institute

2009-12-18T22:32:00.000-08:00

On December 17, 2009 Sound Business, Inc (SBI) College and Career Preparatory Institute held it's annual December Show and it was an electric and satisfying show. The lighting effects, audio production and stage management made the show work flawlessly. A special shout out to Vivien Bognot who helped to organize this show two months out from the show date. Photo: Desi DVD @ Rehearsals