Including Your Community in Your Event (online)
Every year, over 30 alumni from the Sauder School of Business help coach the UBC delegation for the JDC West Business Competition. We spend about 4 months running the teams through cases, presentation techniques, training practices, and team building exercises. I can proudly say that coaching the Social Team is one of the best parts of my year. (These four just light up my days!)
Last night was the awards ceremony for JDC West 2010, but, unfortunately for all the proud supporters of the UBC team, it was all the way up in Prince George. This year – however – we (and 200+ people) were still able to participate and celebrate with our teams.
Using USTREAM, a free online broadcasting system, we were able to be right there with the action as they streamed the awards ceremony live. They even played all the team videos while we were waiting for it to begin. Even better, the viewers were able to chat with each other online and tweet updates directly from the site. The online viewers cheered each other on and also held our breathes in those moments of intense anticipation. Sitting in my room felt like being surrounded by all the other UBC coaches (and supporters) and the alumni from the different schools. It felt like we were really there.
Best part of the night was also seeing Sauder clean-up with the awards:
- 1st in Debate
- 3rd in Accounting – Academic Case
- 3rd in Business Strategy – Academic Case
- 1st in Finance – Academic Case
- 2nd in Human Resources – Academic Case
- 1st in Management Information Systems – Academic Case
- 1st in Finance – Academic Case
- 1st in Marketing – Academic Case
- 1st in Participation
This hard work and commitment to excellence helped them bring back the title of SCHOOL OF THE YEAR to Sauder. 1st Place overall! The crowd, both online and offline, went wild! Below is the entire gala, but if you fast forward to 2h:06, you can join in the excitement of the big announcement:
Next time you are planning an event, take a note from the JDC West 2010 planning committee’s book and think about how you are engaging the community of those who aren’t able to attend. Technology can help remove some of those pesky geographic boundaries. After all, great communities want to celebrate (and learn, and laugh) together.
Congratulations, again, to the JDC West 2010 UBC team. You made us proud this weekend.
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Pick of the post: Jason Mraz – Kickin’ With You (a newly released Mraz song to celebrate!)
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