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Fun Name Badges

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Name badges can become a focal point of a meeting and a great way to promote lively and fun interaction among attendees with just a little creativity.

Sue Tinnish of SEAL Inc., who is a popular facilitator, speaker, teambuilder, and trainer, offers these tips for sprucing up name badges:

  • Add a favorite childhood game, three numbers that are significant to you, a significant accomplishment during the past year, something positive about you, something you could use help with, and/or something you know quite a bit about to the nametag.
  • Reverse the traditional nametag by writing “My Name is NOT. . .”
  • Add three things about yourself, two of which are true.
  • Write the nametag in the form of a headline, such as “Sue Tinnish Lands Big Account with XYZ Association.”
  • Decorate a fingerprint and decorate it.
  • Rename your job in layman’s language. For example, an informational system specialist wrote, “Help. Help. Help.”
  • Set up a “Decorate Your Badge” table with stickers, pins, and other decorations for attendees to personalize their name badges.
  • Use technology for name badges such as ntag, SpotMe, or SmartBadge. These name badges can communicate with each other and identify specific people for you using Radio Frequency Identification based on information such as name, company, or even your hobby.

      • “I can’t tell you the number of times I have seen meetings totally energized by using some of these name badge innovations,” Tinnish says. “People get totally into it and before you know it they are learning things about their colleagues that they never would have known otherwise. It’s just great!”

      For more great meeting ideas, visit ConventionPlanit.com and click on the “For Planners Only” section and go to the “Stellar Tips” link. There is no registration required and you can even enter your own Stellar Tip for a chance to win a valuable prize.

      Sue Tinnish publishes a monthly newsletter, “Tips for Innovative Meetings and Events.” You are invited to subscribe or find past issues at Sue Tinnish’s Website.

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