Conferences that Work

JANUARY 2, 2017

As 2017 begins, take a moment to think about meetings in a wider context. While our primary relationships are usually with family and friends, professional relationships are also important, and meetings are typically the most effective way to form and develop then. OK, a very wide context. “Who am I?”

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

You can improve meetings by de-emphasizing status. Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. It’s time to revisit this important topic.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

Experienced meeting planners know that every meeting has its share of unexpected surprises. Minimizing surprises like CoffeeGate is default behavior for meeting planners. We do not want events to be poorly planned and/or executed, because the inevitable result will be unhappy attendees and chaos of one kind or another.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

There’s a big difference between unconferences and traditional events. Here’s how Wikipedia defines an unconference: “An unconference is a participant-driven meeting.” ” “Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. Tech In Asia explains: “Imagine being near a steep cliff.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 6, 2017

Many believe that meetings are an unpleasant evil that sucks time and energy away from getting things done. That’s unfortunate, because meetings — when done right — are one of the most powerful business tools for creating the action outcomes that stakeholders and participants want and need. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

How do we get people to participate at meetings? They are also far more likely to make valuable connections with their peers during the event. Seth Godin describes a desirable meeting mindset: What would happen… if we chose to: …Sit in the front row. Ask a hard question every time we go to a meeting….

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2016

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). After a three-day introductory workshop at BATS, I attended two four-day Applied Improvisation Network World Conferences (San Francisco 2012 and Montreal 2015). How I got there. We’ll see.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

However, meetings have tremendous potential to change lives. The freedom to choose what happens at a peer conference allows attendees to collectively create the meeting that they want and need, rather than be tied to the limited vision of a program committee or the vested interests of conference stakeholders. Change is hard.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“Intel’s annual meeting was entirely virtual. ” — Steven Davidoff Solomon , New York Times, Online Shareholders’ Meetings Lower Costs, but Also Interaction. Forty years later, “group telemedia”, now known as virtual meetings, are firmly established and increasingly popular.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. There is overwhelming evidence that we can improve meetings by switching to active learning from passive lectures.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why I love conference facilitation and design appeared first on Conferences That Work. Related posts: Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. Sources for additional information. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 20, 2016

Increasingly we are moving to event models that make participants generators of event value. Meetings that become what the participants want and need them to be, autofocusing on the topics and questions that are of genuine relevance, rather than sessions predefined six months in advance. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 26, 2018

Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis , I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. Often, I adopt new ideas and share them with the broader meeting design community, fostering collaboration and growth.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 21, 2023

How can we maximize the real value of a meeting? By maximizing how participants “connect the dots”—what they actually learn from their experiences at the meeting—rather than documenting what we or they think they should have learned. We know that these kinds of meeting evaluations are unreliable ( 1 , 2 , 3 ).

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Because this week’s episode of Event Tech Podcast is all about this up and coming, exciting topic. Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings?

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Similarly, the chief indicators of the business-events industry continued to reflect a healthy economic environment, with mostly positive increases. Thinking ahead — The average booking window for large meetings is 2.2

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

At Resource Design SA we design, develop and provide innovative sustainable solutions that offer the exhibitions industry eco-friendly financially viable alternatives. We are introducing this unique product to the UK market to meet the growing demand for more sustainable products. Food and beverage events. Meeting Rooms.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 11, 2020

Webinar World, the event designed from webinerds to webinerds, has been in the hybrid game for years. The good folks at ON24 , the company behind the event, have long realized the importance webinars have in today’s marketing landscape. So get your pen and paper and start taking notes! Webinar World. That’s right!

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

How can these emerging technologies and production partners elevate your virtual events? “When we started in 2012, it really focused on the future of video communications. Well, press play or read on to learn more about the magical powers of mixed reality! Introducing, Touchcast! So, how did Touchcast come about?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2024

World Education Congress (WEC) 2024, Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) annual gathering, is always notable for its range of educational programming. Virtuoso author and entrepreneur Felipe Gomez shared the importance of practice for musicians and meeting professionals. “We

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

He founded the FoST Summit in 2012, inviting 300 people from the fields of technology, arts, theater, business, and communications to attend a one-day event to explore the impact of technology on storytelling. “So FoST participants travel to the meeting by private ferry. Everybody gets the chance to become a star.”.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Convene has written a lot about groups that are consolidating their meeting portfolios—the American Society for Microbiology combining two annual conferences into one, the Consumer Bankers Association going from eight down to one—but the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is going in the other direction.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Walk this way instead: Within a week of the event’s closing, call each first-time guest and thank them for taking the time to attend your conference. . Ask them for direct feedback about meeting their expectations and ways you can make your event better. Inquire if they will attend next year. .

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The last time NSBE held its convention in Pittsburgh in 2012, the event left behind more than $15 million dollars in direct spending. “I “This is precisely the kind of meeting group that we want to attract in Pittsburgh. NSBE43 #JDJobs #TBT pic.twitter.com/GdKqMpHp0u. — John Deere Jobs (@JohnDeereJobs) April 6, 2017.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the rebranding of the property, a large market research project was conducted to give the latest insight of the event industry. The transformation that took place in 2012 is a direct result of few years of research and 5 million pounds investment. The space is built around the client needs rather than the other way around.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Regardless of their response, you owe it to your members to look at other meeting options. As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective to these blog posts. Once you have a report compiled, please share it. Ask what they’d like to do.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Why events will never be the same’, this insightful session will see Julius and Christine engage in a frank discussion about the future of events. and ‘What are the top five characteristics of the events of the future?’ The more we interact online, the more we need to meet. Titled ‘It’s not 2019 anymore.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

If you were to only go by its promise — “No egos, no agendas, no b t.” — you could mistake the Fifteen Seconds Festival for a no-frills, cut-to-the-chase kind of meeting for entrepreneurs. What we do,” Thiemo Gillissen, the event’s co-founder and partner, told Convene, “is a business conference done differently.”.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Give attendees a deal on your next event. On the last day of the conference, let them know if they sign up and pay for the next meeting on that day, they will receive a significant discount. One of the biggest obstacles in selling an event into the future is the possibility the attendee can’t make it. Sell refund protection.

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