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Event Design is how it works

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. “ —Steve Jobs, The Guts of a New Machine , 2003 New York Times interview If only we applied Steve’s insight to event design. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Event Design is how it works appeared first on Conferences That Work. The notes at the.

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A free guide to creating peer conferences

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The Association for Software Testing (AST) has just issued a free guide to creating peer conferences. I believe the software testing community adopted my term “peer conference” for their get-togethers after a conversation I had with pioneer software tester James Bach in 2004. email templates and helpful checklists.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.

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Five Reasons to Change Conferences

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Here’s my article “ Five Reasons to Change Conferences “ , published in the December 2018, NSA Speaker magazine. But our conference programs still focus on lectures, where a few experts broadcast their knowledge to passive listeners. Related posts: Conferences That Work goes to Japan! Here are five reasons why.

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Improve your meetings: Make attendee status a real-time construct

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Their status is publicly proclaimed on the pre-conference program, giving attendees no say in the decision. Status at traditional events follows a power-over model, rather than designs that support power-within and maximize power-with for participants. For more on how this works, check out this 2014 post.

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Creating Conferences That Work with Adrian Segar

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For an excellent summary of the work I do, check out this interview and podcast , Creating Conferences That Work by Celisa Steele of Leading Learning. Here’s an overview: Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Creating Conferences That Work with Adrian Segar appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Nine conference mythodologies

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Here are nine mythodologies about conferences. At least half the sessions programmed at traditional conferences are not what attendees want. Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Mythodology: Learning occurs through events.