Velvet Chainsaw

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2020, attendees, sponsors, and exhibitors were more forgiving of our virtual conferences than they will be in 2021. They, like you, are all experiencing Zoom fatigue and will have much higher expectations for conferences this coming year — especially those they are investing their precious time and money. Don’t waste a good crisis.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 20, 2020

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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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Meetings and conferences are perhaps one of the most important fundamental ways in which people come together and change happens. So I’m pleased to discover an academic research article paper about unconference — especially since its title is: The Future Of Conferences Is Unconferences !

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Picatic by Eventbrite

MARCH 6, 2020

Taken from a survey of over 800 event professionals, these three trends are shaping the competitive landscape of conferences and corporate events.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2024

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. It’s informal because I only list events I hear about, a minuscule fraction of the unconferences people hold every day. Even so, the calendar lists hundreds of events. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

My Dutch friend and expert moderator, Jan Jaap In der Maur , recently shared an innovative format for an in-conference pitch competition he devised for the Conventa Crossover Conference , in Ljubljana, Slovenia: “There were also the Conventa Crossover Awards. given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? If so, download.

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. No related posts.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The other day, a client booked an hour with me to discuss how to make their conference better. Thinking about our conversation afterward, I realized that all my recommendations involved six fundamental processes that, when implemented well and appropriately, will make any conference better.

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MARCH 4, 2024

During a 1992 conference, I created the first of what I now call spectives. Over the last 32 years, I’ve led hundreds of spectives and introduced the format to many event professionals and facilitators. the 2015 PCMA Education Conference ) and small (e.g. the 2023 BizBash Leadership Summit ) conferences. A hat tip!

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MARCH 28, 2022

A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Steve Jobs said, “Design is how it works”. And good event design is about how a conference works.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 13, 2020

How can we entwine content and connection during an online conference? During a MeetingsCommunity (MeCo) discussion thread “ Networking at conferences ” last week, Sharon Fisher posted this. As it happened, I’d just completed facilitating an online conference that I think did entwine content and connection.

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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. ” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. Design in flexibility. Give them power.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 9, 2023

For complex conference programs, this insight means that you can increase satisfaction — and reduce attendee anxiety — by providing them with several targeted choices. For conferences that develop education sessions that appeal to a broad audience, applying the principles in this study can improve the attendee experience.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript!

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AUGUST 9, 2021

If you ask about a budget for event design, stakeholders think you’re talking about decor and drama. But “there’s no budget” for core event design, which is actually about designing great meeting process. There’s usually a budget for decor and production—sometimes a big budget.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We talk about all kinds of things, with a focus on my work and thinking about participant-driven and participation-rich meetings and event design. 06:00 On traveling to events, and my passion for what I do. 07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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EventMB

APRIL 30, 2024

Skift Take: Logistics are important when planning conferences but often overshadow what most are in the room for, content. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To evaluate an event, conveners focus on knowing key conference metrics. Our analytic minds seek numbers to quantify the experiences of event stakeholders. But is there value in not knowing at conferences? ” Metrics provide a finite “map” of what happened at a conference.

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JUNE 22, 2020

That’s the selling proposition for a host of new platforms that have sprung up over the last few months: creating a compelling online incarnation of the traditional conference socials we all know and love (or hate). A maximum of around thirty people were present at any one time at the Gatherly test event, which I set up.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Whether you’re a meeting design novice or seasoned pro, you will learn really important things from this book. Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ). Amidst the myriad books on creating and running events, Intentional Event Design , by Tahira Endean and published in 2017, stands out.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

A conference focused on female founders would seem like an accepting place for babies, wouldn’t it? Elena Brandt, the founder of a market research startup called Besample , was excited to attend the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference 2024 , in August. The conference featured successful female speakers that I wanted to hear from.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Guide to Implementing Virtual Events , by Attendease. Having the right technology stack is essential to run a successful virtual conference. Download this implementation guide to learn the pieces that you need to run your multi-session online event. The Virtual Event Tech Playbook , by Event Manager Blog.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Software testers do peer conferences right! They even call them a peer conference , rather than unconference , a term I don’t like.) As evidence of software tester conference awesomeness, I offer three examples below. a short history of the peer conference. The 2022 SoCraTes peer conference. But first…. …a

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

If you are serious about improving your conferences, my meeting design workshop can be the game-changer your organization needs. In a world where passive listening no longer satisfies attendees, traditional lecture-based conferences are ineffective and outdated. Share personal and collective wants and needs for the event.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> There’s a big difference between unconferences and traditional events. Well, surely titan Google would accurately describe their annual Search Central conference ?

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MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A.

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JULY 29, 2024

Skift Take: C2 has always been high on the list of the world’s most creative events, often resembling a conference meets carnival. We checked in with C2’s creative director to find out what worked this year and how the event has evolved since the pandemic. Brian Quinn Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2024

.” You can learn the what, why, and how to run a Fishbowl Sandwich from my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need. Having only one tool in your tool chest of conference session designs and formats won’t get you far. But wait, there’s more! No problem! Join them today!

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Keeping a recurring conference going, alive and fresh every time, is hard enough. Successfully starting a conference from scratch is even tougher. But if you are courageous enough to start a conference, you have one big advantage.

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APRIL 18, 2022

The second is a design I’ll be using in a conference I’ve designed and will be facilitating in June 2022. Collaborative Tools Workshop ” designed by Joel Backon at the 2010 annual edACCESS conference. 2—Crowdsourcing a program online the day before an in-person conference.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Scratching the surface appeared first on Conferences That Work. Sometimes, it’s only at the end that we realize we’re just scratching the surface. No related posts.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2022

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meeting session learning with this simple tip! appeared first on Conferences That Work. Provide a shared Google doc where all participants can take notes, ask questions, and get answers! No related posts.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 29, 2024

“Google wants to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible—that is the mission of the company—and I think if you follow that sentiment to its logical conclusion, accessibility and making things accessible to all of our users can only happen if we understand what our users need, and that goes for live events, as well.”

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JUNE 5, 2023

Skift Take: Belonging is a focus of the “Guiding Principles in Experience Design” study released during Marriott’s Association Masters Customer Conference. The gathering showcased both the benefits and challenges of fostering belonging at meetings and events. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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JUNE 30, 2022

These are the sorts of value-adds that attendees have come to expect after the pandemic-inspired metamorphosis of event tech. Intentional Event Design. The post Hot Tech Conference Collision Defies Odds, Draws 35,000 to Toronto appeared first on Skift Meetings.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Here’s how you should proceed: Starting a new conference? With the right design, you’ll create an event they’ll want to return to, year after year. You can then grow the event over time. Struggling with a small conference? Your event design might need an update—I can help!

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