Why this founder wants you to focus on peer learning, not just networking, in 2021
Why It Matters
Much of the social impact worldโs learning and development happens through connection โ learning from others in the field, and having deep conversations. A pandemic makes that difficult, but not impossible, says e180โs Christine Renaud.
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Christine Renaud had been offering her companyโs Braindate service โย a โconciergeโ on-site at big conferences and events to help attendees connect with and learn from one another โย for nine years when the coronavirus pandemic hit early last year.ย
โWe started seeing that one country after another was closing large events, and that week of March 10, we lost all the events we were working on,โ Renaud says. โBut then, our clients were still turning to us and asking us, โWhat do we do now? We want to go virtual, but nobody knows how.โ It was not a thing to have virtual events. There werenโt best practices for virtual experiences like there are in in-person events.โย
So the Montreal-based company did what man
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