International Collegiate Free Hugs Day – Participating Schools
Today marks two weeks until the International Collegiate Free Hugs Day on 11/10/11! Steadily over the past two months, schools have been signing up and pledging their hugs. Here’s where we’re at… 97 Schools Committed 63 Schools Pledged Hugs 44,442 Hugs Pledged 438 Individuals RSVPed on the Facebook Event Haven’t pledged yet? There’s still time. […]
Introducing: 1st Annual Collegiate International Free Hugs Day (11-10-11)
After seven years of helping colleges create their own events on a campus-by-campus basis, we thought it was time to step up the game. This year we’re bringing together 10,000s of student leaders and student groups from all over the world to participate in one single event on one single day. Introducing the 1st Annual […]
The Why Behind FREE HUGS
In our Dance Floor Theory™ program, we divide member engagement within a community into six different stages… Technically it’s seven, but that’s another story for another time. We call these six stages The Engagement Pyramid™. Each stage is defined by a different set of characteristics for an individual. Fully engaged members display different characteristics than […]
MyView: Alvernia University Dance Floor Theory Training [IMAGE]
They made these shirts specially for the training since they saw me do Dance Floor Theory a year ago at Alvernia.
When a Hug Is More than a Hug
Last week I did our Dance Floor Theory and Free Hugs training for an Army BOSS conference because, just like schools, the Army has an extremely hard time engaging their single Soldiers. According to a 2005 Leisure Needs Survey, 80-95% of single Soldiers never participate in BOSS sponsored activities. As usual, I set up the idea […]
Our First NACA Flashmob [VIDEO]
For the past 6 months, Kevin and I talked about the idea of pulling off a Flashmob at NACA or APCA. Up to this point, it was just talking, but we changed that at a recent NACA West conference. It started with finding the technology. The company we found allows a person to text “swiftkick” […]