I am back home in BOONTON USA from Connecticut. And I am reflecting on how what is old is new again. For meetings. LIVE (Live) vs. LIVE (Hybrid) vs. LIVE (100% online).

The event on Yale Campus was small, LIVE and... small. Very intimate. The room only held a few hundred people. No Zoom.  Do you know what was the most impactful, the most memorable part of the two-day event? The cocktail party networking mixer Thursday night before the event. I say that many new friendships and strategic partnerships were made over Adult Beverages. 

Next month, 38K+ members of the GlobalDLA.org will attend InfoComm 2025 in Orlando, Florida. This is the biggest ProAV event of the year. Anyone who runs a college, university, medical school, law school, etc. should attend this event. If you are a facilities manager, if you are in charge of telecom, technology, you will probably be walking the floor at InfoComm. This ProAV event is LIVE but also will have virtual sessions.

Next month in NYC will be a Zoom Partner meeting - LIVE. We shall huddle up in NYC (exact location TBD) where Zoom Partners and Vendors shall 'Map and Mingle' in The Big Apple. I am sure there shall be Adult Beverages. Just like at Yale on Thursday night.

Our CoffeeInTheClouds.us interviews are PoweredByZoom.us and reach millions of GlobalDLA.org members living all around the world. 99% of the time I am at my home, the CITC guest is at their home (or office) and we are on Zoom. We have rules: no script, no practice, one take, no edits. It's real. Just like the conversations we would have if we were LIVE at the pre (or post) event cocktail hours. But we have coffee while on Zoom. No booze. 

Yale: we had a few hundred people LIVE, tops. InfoComm 2025: probably 40K+ will attend LIVE in Orland. That's 40K+ hotel rooms and plane tickets. Thousands of Uber rides. Orange County Convention Center will be rocking. Just like last year, and the year before. 

Zoom 'Map & Mingle'  in June in NYC will be a few hundred people LIVE, if that.  Probably more like 90 to 100, give or take. So, what's my point?

Bigger is not better. BETTER is better. For meetings and events, shoot for Quality not Quantity.

With that being said........ I'LL SEE YOU IN ORLANDO!!!  {Live} 

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