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Conferences that Work
MARCH 3, 2025
It’s time to revisit this important topic because you can improve your meetings by making attendee status a real-time construct. Their status is publicly proclaimed on the pre-conference program, giving attendees no say in the decision. Improve all your meetings! For more on how this works, check out this 2014 post.
Conferences that Work
JULY 21, 2025
I am a trusted expert on participant-driven and participation-rich conference design and facilitation. My blog is the most visited resource on meeting design in the world. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post The accelerating enshittification of search appeared first on Conferences That Work.
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Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 20, 2021
As it becomes more apparent that face-to-face events will return in some form this year, conference organizers have an opportunity to make changes that would have been more difficult to sell up the ladder in the past. It’s a good time for planners to challenge their organizations to make the meeting experience more valuable than ever.
Conferences that Work
JANUARY 11, 2021
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. Obvious problems. Complicated problems.
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Well, it’s not.
Velvet Chainsaw
MARCH 6, 2017
Your real conference competition is not that event held six months after yours. Today’s technology driven, hyper-connected, instant gratification, real-time world puts you as a conference organizer in a difficult position. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 25, 2017
Our conference learning spaces affect our audience. We must learn to think like designers. Then we can focus on changing our conference participants’ learning spaces with the right goal in mind—nurturing their learning. We are designing them to foster, nurture and amplify our participants’ learning. Be forewarned!
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