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MARCH 3, 2025

Peer conference event attendee status is real-time At peer conferences (and some traditional events), attendee status is dynamic , shifting from moment to moment. However, my peer conference designs go even further, embedding fluid attendee status that adapts moment-to-moment throughout the event.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created.

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JULY 2, 2018

Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014.

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APRIL 1, 2019

I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.” I discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry. I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

So when should you use the Conferences That Work design? 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.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

In the meetings world, the most well known are the series of EventCamps that were held around the world between 2010 and 2014. These were volunteer-run, meeting experiments that explored a wide range of meeting and session formats and technologies. Finally, there are conferences that are entirely experiments!

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