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Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meetingdesign. There’s often a budget for a dramatic big-name speaker or two. If you ask about a budget for eventdesign, stakeholders think you’re talking about decor and drama. Good writing is cheaper than special effects.
For the last 25 years, a former drama teacher from The Netherlands has been advocating for taking a similar approach to event planning. You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”.
– Shonali Devereaux named as new podcast host – New in Events , a podcast from IBTM World, has returned for a much anticipated second season with Shonali Devereaux as its new host. From the show floor at IBTM World 2024, we hear from Bo Krger, speaker and meetingsdesigner at Moving Minds.
Unfortunately, you wouldn’t know this from looking at meeting planning textbooks. Because they make assumptions that what has to happen is what happened at just about every meeting their authors ever attended. They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. I have little competition.
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 meetingdesign…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. They stand to sing and pray.
Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. The massive disruption of in-person events since March 2020 has shaken our industry to the core. We have also seen the emergence of new forms of online events, supported by solid business models.
At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. And the key to 100s PAs and one sell out event? That’s MeetingDesign.
Coming off her session at the Event Leadership Institute’s Innovation and Engagement Summit, we connected with Dahlia about how to maximize virtual event engagement today. Think of what you can ask in registration and then categorize this into what will and won’t work at your event, or what’s tangible and intangible.”.
Many event organisers and event companies are seeking out the best online training courses for online events and there are a lot on offer. We have searched far and wide to find the five best training courses for online events. . Run by organisations who have been talking about hybrid or online events for a while.
Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.
This intergenerational confluence of working meeting planners features authentic, unfiltered opinions designed to help new and evolving hospitality pros in their event journey. Elevating Event Experiences with Neen James How can extraordinary attention to detail improve your portability and productivity? What One Thing?
This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?
Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.
I spoke at IBTM in Barcelona ( you can read the “review” here ) at the end of November on one of my favourite topics, MeetingDesign or fresh formats for conferences. Think of the future when you create an event today, take baby steps towards that future! What objectives should underpin meetingdesign.
Status and power at meetings. I think of status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. And power at events is an individual’s capacity to influence the actions, beliefs, or conduct of attendees. At many events, only high status people talk.
Increasing attendee satisfaction increases the effectiveness of the event for all stakeholders: attendees, sponsors, and event owners. I’d argue that hiring me is the most effective and cost-effective way to improve any event. ” “Substance, not celebrity… celebrity speakers will not boost registrations. .”
In a nutshell, I think that our industry associations have become too focused on justifying their continued existence financially, and are neglecting their core mission of supporting and representing their members and association meeting attendees. But their inclusion looks good on the promotional materials.
Most of the meetings today are still about people sitting down and listening to one or more speakers. And in this information age of declining attention span, it is not a surprise to see that 73% of people acknowledge doing other work during meetings. . Kevin Hoffman has written a pretty good book about it: MeetingDesign.
Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meetingdesign. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. .” Superstar lecturers and motivational speakers.
Earlier this month, the folks at Gatherly kindly invited me to host an event of my choosing for their clients and potential users. This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. Designing an online workshop in Gatherly. I’ve shared the why?
November is always a busy month for event organisers in the event industry. Whether we are trying to shoe horn in a few events before peoples minds start to wonder to the festive period or maybe we are upping the marketing for our events in the first quarter of the following year, November can be a car crash of a month!
Staying on top of everything that changes in the events industry is a job in itself, never mind actually organising events. The possibilities of event technology seem to change almost every day. And new areas such as meetingdesign, seem to spring up from nowhere. Be an event creative. So how can we cope?
Although I have good reasons to champion meetingdesigns where the participants get to choose what they want and need to discuss and learn rather than a program committee , there is invariably a place for some predetermined presentations at conferences. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.
All the conferences I design and facilitate have a time and place for participants to share their experiences. But most clients don’t give me post-event feedback about my work or the event. PSFG has a deep appreciation for the importance of meetingdesign. And that’s okay. I copied the details below.
And you have meeting rooms with this view. If event planners want meetings to deliver value to their attendees, they have to stop using meeting rooms like this. If venues really want to run great meetings they have to give more thought to the spaces they create. You have a hotel with this view. Venue Fail.
At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. And the key to 100s PAs and one sell out event? That’s MeetingDesign.
PCMA EduCon took place in Los Angeles in June 2019 and I was lucky enough to be asked to mentor the attendees of PCMA’s Homeless Hackathon and to present a session on online events. . PCMA continue to dedicate their efforts towards leading the event industry response to homelessness. Taking Your Online Events To The Next Level.
I always try, if possible, to attend an event every month. However the last few months have conspired to make it pretty hard to get out and spend a day at an event. So I was delighted that the Association of Association Executives allowed me to attend the first day of their “Event Strategy” event in London.
Many event organisers and event companies are seeking out the best online training courses for virtual events and there are a lot on offer. We have searched far and wide to find the five best training courses for online events. . Run by organisations who have been talking about hybrid or online events for a while.
Conferenceemcees.com , a global network of professional conference emcees, moderators, and facilitators working across virtual, hybrid and in person events, was officially launched today, January 17 th , 2021. They were incredibly professional and flexible and helped us pivot from an in-person event to a virtual one seamlessly.
Instead of scrapping their events amid COVID-19 concerns, more organizations are moving their face-to-face programs online. The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. Maarten Vanneste. For planners, there’s been a technical barrier, Vanneste said.
So, if it’s so important for our attendees, I think that we event planners should do a wee bit more to structure that networking; to make sure that good connections happen. This is something very different from the networking that we casually think about: you know, the random meetings over coffee or picking up the delegate pack.
1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. I quickly discover the size and interest of the meetings industry.
Let’s face it, planning an event is never as easy as 1, 2, 3. In 2021, that notion has never been more prevalent as event professionals and brands find themselves teetering between online events , in-person events and something in the middle (aka hybrid events ). Carol Galle, CEO of Special D Events.
I would suggest event planners use this as a “basis” for a conference. Add some meetingdesign. This is where I would also place really good speakers! In this example (unusually for a PA event) the conference did actually end the day at 16:30. Can Gallus Event help you in 2017? Meetingdesign.
Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern eventdesign.
I always try, if possible, to attend an event every month. However the last few months have conspired to make it pretty hard to get out and spend a day at an event. So I was delighted that the Association of Association Executives allowed me to attend the first day of their “Event Strategy” event in London.
No one likes to see a half empty room at any point during an event. It makes no difference that the room has been full for most of the day; it’s still a pain to see empty seats and even empty rows at the end of an event. Perhaps it’s your KEYNOTE / best speaker wrapping up the day.
Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meetingdesign I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) Most meeting conveners concentrate on feedback about meeting content (“great speakers!”)
From more engaging, holistic experiences to the the bold new expectations of “bleisure,” event planners and suppliers are racing to adapt in an industry that’s as dynamic as it’s ever been. While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern eventdesign.
The Hague Convention Bureau’s first hybrid webinar welcomed five events professionals either in-person or virtually to the World Forum in The Hague. When planning a hybrid and digital event, your content is the key to its success, panelists agreed during The Hague Convention Bureau’s first hybrid webinar. Holland Park Media).
This International Women’s Day, we would like to raise a toast to the empowerment and diversity in our events industry. They may be event tech enthusiasts, event planners , eventspeakers , but all of them are influencers for event enthusiasts and followers. She even launched her own events agency DAHLIA+.
The event world is changing, (once again)! Venues are reopening, the virtual world is blending with the in-person world, and hybrid events are definitely the future. Feel free to stream to the full event — How to Hybrid: The Mysteries Unraveled , and keep reading for our recap. It’s just another meeting.”
The speaker icon next to the “All Tables” caption allows you to choose the “background chatter volume” Like an in-person social, you can set this so you can hear some of the conversation at other tables. They expect repeated event monthly costs to be comparable to Zoom pricing.
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