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Community versus audience in journalism and meetings

Conferences that Work

These two quotes are from my posts on the parallels between the evolution of journalism and events (2015) and on the parallel missions of journalism and participant-driven and participation-rich events (2018).] When the attendees are the owners, meeting designs that build and support community are the obvious way to go.

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5 Reasons I’m Grateful for My Clients After 40+ Years of Consulting

Conferences that Work

The result was that I wrote two supplements to the book that I published in 2013 and 2015. Today, because consulting on meeting design and facilitation is a niche practice, marketing via sharing my website posts with subscribers and on social media has also become a significant source of new clients. industry education ).

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Three ways to create truly surprising meetings

Conferences that Work

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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Friends don’t let friends give away their content

Conferences that Work

According to my weblogs, this site is now one of the most popular websites on meeting design and related issues, with 31 million page views to date, 25 million of which were made in the last three years. As expected, hardly anyone visited initially. As I steadily added content (at least once per week) viewership grew.

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How to Evolve Your Career Alongside the Rapidly Changing Events Industry

Event Leadership Institute

We should all be looking for the best tools, resources, designations, and skills to acquire into our professional toolkit, but we know this can be an overwhelming and time-consuming feat. Redstone is proud to be part of this inspiring events industry, and we’re excited to see what new certification and designation resources will come next!

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C&I Is the New Q&A

PCMA Convene

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress had been held annually for more than three decades when the organization reached out in 2015 to Maarten Vanneste, president of the Meeting Design Institute, based in Turnhout, Belgium. That is what we need in meetings.”. That is magic.

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Holding a workshop and need some best practice

Gallus Events

Back in 2015 (probably after attending workshops that weren’t workshops) I wrote a post: Definition of a Workshop. It made me think about this format again and it also had some good best practice examples. So here’s what I hope will be a great little summary of how you make the most of this format. What is a workshop.

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