Comments on: A better conference badge http://james.cridland.net/blog/a-better-conference-badge/ Radio futurologist and beer drinker Thu, 17 May 2012 16:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Paul Easton http://james.cridland.net/blog/a-better-conference-badge/#comment-430 Paul Easton Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:23:31 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/04/29/a-better-conference-badge/#comment-430 My main gripe with conference badges is when people don't wear them - usually because they consider themselves important enough that everybody already knows who they are! I remember one event some years ago where a well-known (at the time) record industry person's name badge read "If you don't know who I am you shouldn't be here!". Now that's what I call having an ego. I've attended some conferences/conventions where the badge also includes a passport-size photo of the delegate. This has been mainly because the badge also acted as a pass to a number of related events elsewhere in the host city. At one event (PopKomm 1999 in Cologne) the badge/pass even doubled as a free travel pass on the city's buses/trams/metro for the duration of the convention. My main gripe with conference badges is when people don’t wear them – usually because they consider themselves important enough that everybody already knows who they are! I remember one event some years ago where a well-known (at the time) record industry person’s name badge read “If you don’t know who I am you shouldn’t be here!”. Now that’s what I call having an ego.

I’ve attended some conferences/conventions where the badge also includes a passport-size photo of the delegate. This has been mainly because the badge also acted as a pass to a number of related events elsewhere in the host city. At one event (PopKomm 1999 in Cologne) the badge/pass even doubled as a free travel pass on the city’s buses/trams/metro for the duration of the convention.

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