Velvet Chainsaw

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In spite of all the bad, there is also much that is positive for the next phase of association conferences. The purpose of the event was simple; to bring together a like-minded group of really smart and thoughtful people to share what they’ve learned in 2020 and what they are taking into 2021 for their organization’s major conference.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 5, 2024

Recruiting volunteers for conferences can be challenging but immensely rewarding. Those who are passionate, reliable, and committed to doing their best on event day can help you pull off your conference without a hitch. When it comes to managing conferences , recruiting the right volunteers makes all the difference.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 31, 2020

Please stop treating adults like children at your conferences. Schools originally developed as establishments for improving the efficiency of oral communication of information. So, please stop treating adults like children at conferences. For an exception, see the end of this post.). one exception. No related posts.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

A well-planned and executed conference will do wonders for your organization. A conference can help you achieve these things—if you host it correctly. To ensure your conference is a smashing success, invest in conference management. Keep reading this comprehensive guide to learn: What is a Conference?

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 21, 2020

Over the past couple weeks, conversations with our clients have shifted from crisis decision-making for conferences occurring in the near-term (reactive) to scenario planning for the fall (proactive). In our Conference Go/No-Go Decisions in a Pandemic post , we provided a framework for scenario planning. Resetting Expectations.

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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. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month. Who holds peer conferences?

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Conferences that Work

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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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2024

During a 1992 conference, I created the first of what I now call spectives. Spectives are popular and successful because, like peer conferences, they adapt beautifully to participants’ wants and needs. the 2015 PCMA Education Conference ) and small (e.g. the 2023 BizBash Leadership Summit ) conferences. A hat tip!

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GEVME

JULY 28, 2021

With the advent of the pandemic, virtual conferences became a popular go-to option for many event organisers. Even while at the time of writing, some parts of the world are returning to normalcy, virtual events , particularly virtual conferences, are here to stay. What You Need to Know About Virtual Conferences.

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Conferences that Work

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. In between structured sessions, there are scheduled breaks to enable informal information gathering.

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Eventmobi

JULY 1, 2024

When it comes to managing a conference , there are so many tasks on your plate. Amidst all the conference chaos, however, remember that data is the key to unlocking important insights about your audience and improving future events. The less information you collect from attendees, the less clutter you’ll have in your database.

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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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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Why won’t IAEE inform Expo! will be held in California, where the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants consumers certain rights over the personal information that businesses collect about them. Conclusions At a minimum, IAEE should comply with Zenus’s request they inform Expo! attendees?

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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! Here it is—enjoy!

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Event Farm

JULY 8, 2022

To ensure that your attendees return to your conference year after year delivering a memorable event experience is key. This is why “Reimagining the Conference” was the perfect topic for Part 4 of our virtual workshop series on Crafting the Event Experience. Think about content as an exchange, versus drilling people with information.

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With so many moving parts to juggle, planning a conference can seem like a daunting task. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through how to plan a conference from A to Z. What Does It Take to Plan a Conference? But how long does it take to plan a conference? The first key to success is to start early!

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 10, 2024

Without a doubt, conference apps are a must-have tool for any event organizer. However, with so many different event apps for conferences on the market, it can be tough to know which one is right for you! What Is a Conference App? Before we dive into providers, you need to know what a conference app is.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 20, 2021

Audience engagement is supported by virtual conference ideas that enhance how your event attendees absorb information. This is especially true when combining an in-person audience with a remote, virtual audience for a hybrid conference. Another fact: Hybrid conferences and events are hard. We have good news for you.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. While Zoom is currently missing some functionality that would smooth the process flow, it’s already a viable platform for online peer conferences. The big picture.

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Conferences that Work

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. Insights will inform the design of the afternoon program.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 16, 2020

The bread and butter of conferences is concurrent education sessions. Why do we often leave this most critical and valuable aspect of the conference experience in the hands of speakers who are not prepared to deliver an engaging learning experience? Embrace 21 st Century Learning Principles. Speaker Continuous Improvement Plan.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> Well, surely titan Google would accurately describe their annual Search Central conference ? Conference programs that are predetermined with attendee input are not unconferences.

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Managing the conference badge design process for your in-person events is typically a complicated and costly process that requires outsourcing the design, wrangling spreadsheets, mail merge , and templates, followed by endless rounds of approvals. What’s the best thing about EventMobi’s conference badge software? EventMobi GoLive!

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

One of my biggest pet peeves is the way some conferences approach first-time attendees. Being intentional and having a plan for how you welcome someone who is experiencing your conference for the first time is not only the right thing to do, it’s also a smart attendee acquisition strategy. No One Should Eat Alone.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2019

As the event-tech space continues to evolve with a number of mergers and acquisitions, I see four changes coming for larger annual conferences. #1. What this means is that event-technology solutions need to invest more heavily to ensure that they protect attendee personal data and credit card information. Overwhelmed by Big Data.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 22, 2024

That means attendees must be informed about this in advance. And they must give explicit consent for event owners to use real-time continuous data from Zenus’s system to provide additional information on each attendee. Are you combining it with identifying information? Obtain consent or face the consequences.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 17, 2019

Unfortunately, we tend to overgeneralize from others’ stories, from anecdotal information and from small sampling sizes. As conference organizers this leads us to bad decisions when selecting speakers and programming where we promote sharing success stories over asking questions, verifying validity and understanding context.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 19, 2021

Chapter 44 of my book The Power of Participation explains how facilitators use participatory voting to provide public information about viewpoints in the room, and pave the way for further discussion. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post A novel way to assess consensus appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Despite this progress, many still aren’t taking full advantage of what may be event tech’s greatest asset — hard data, or the information behind informed decision making. This improved Analytics feature empowers event organizers to find the information that they need to stay competitive. 4 Key Metrics to Track at Future Events.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 3, 2024

An AI model would need much more of this information to make reasonable guesses about a person’s emotional state.” Postscript My sharing of the above information upset at least one technology vendor that claims to provide useful facial analysis at events. .”

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Eventmobi

JULY 29, 2022

CLHIA’s November 2020 Virtual Wealth and Retirement Conference focused on providing those managing wealth portfolios for Canadian life and health insurers with up-to-date and actionable information about important trends and issues shaping the industry. Cindy Smith. Leading Up to the Event. They’ll take care of you”.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 4, 2020

Long face-to-face meetings — a conference for example — are invariably broken up into sessions, interspersed with scheduled breaks, meals, socials, etc. It’s harder to read the room during online meetings, because we have less real-time information about the participants. Let’s think about in person meetings for a moment.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 10, 2020

With a single fixed time to open and start a meeting, everyone will either be “early” or “late” In addition, meeting invitations don’t supply information as to what the consequences of being early or late will be! Do you have other strategies to start online meetings on time? No related posts.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It introduced contradictory information, and fabricated topics that didn’t exist in the original post. I created a new Notebook, uploaded the text of my recent blog post titled “ How the Responsibilities of Conferences Mirror Those of Media Platforms ,” and waited for the tool to generate its insights. Man: Right.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We recently convened a roundtable of senior-level conference organizers to discuss risk tolerance and the forces that are shaping their 2021/22 event strategies and decisions. Three primary risk categories are emerging as organizations weigh their options for major conferences in 2021: Mitigating financial risk.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The marketing and management strategy for a webinar differs, in some ways significantly, from the strategies for launching a multi-day user conference, for example. By building a master file of attendee profiles, pain points, notable differences, and observations for all types of events, you’ll have a reference point to inform future events.

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Attendease

AUGUST 26, 2024

Here’s a brief overview of common examples of corporate events: Conferences and seminars Academic or professional conferences and seminars allow companies to share industry knowledge, thought leadership, and best practices. These events can vary greatly in size and complexity, taking place in-person , virtually , or in a hybrid format.

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