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Are We Creating The Wrong Type Of Conference Experiences?

Velvet Chainsaw

It’s as if Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore’s Experience Economy is just now hitting its stride—for conferences at least. The word is out: we’ve got to create conference experiences, not just conferences that feel like a patchwork quilt of our great grandmother’s dresses. A Disturbing Conference Trend. Read on…). Wrong hook!).

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TNW Events – A Financial Times Company

Event Industry News

Launched in 2006, full name The Next Web, TNW is a product of its founders’ interest in the future of tech. In events since 2012, and in technology for about the same amount of time, Zach Butler is director of Amsterdam-based TNW Events. Buoyed by The FT buying a major stake, and ultimately acquiring the company, […]

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings

Conferences that Work

Someone to tell it to at conferences. Conferences, whether in-person or online, are also potential arenas for conversations. But some conferences offer better opportunities than others. In 2006, Cory Doctorow wrote: “Conversation is king. Otherwise, people wouldn’t journal and practice self-affirmations.).

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The Batch Fixer

Conferences that Work

I freewrote The Batch Fixer contemporaneously on April 10, 2006, in twenty minutes while waiting for a flight at Dallas Fort Worth airport. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post The Batch Fixer appeared first on Conferences That Work. He’s sitting four chairs to my left.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. The design I designed and facilitated a classic peer conference. 2 • Philadelphia, May: One-day association conference The majority of my clients are formal communities of practice, aka associations. Thank you, David!

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

What Twitter is now Ever since Twitter’s creation in 2006, people have used it in different ways. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Mastodon is the old Twitter appeared first on Conferences That Work. What do I mean by that? The old Twitter is gone. Long live Mastodon, the old Twitter!

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Heike Mahmoud, CMP

Smart Meetings

Heike Mahmoud , CMP, was one of the first European meeting professionals to earn the Certified Meting Professional (CMP) designation through the Events Industry Council (EIC) in 2006. At the conference, she felt overwhelmed with the content and networking opportunities available. I didn’t know that in 2006!”

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