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Improve your meetings: Make attendee status a real-time construct

Conferences that Work

.” She describes the Jeffersonian dinner a favorite activity of my friend and meeting titan David Adler which equalizes status by seating people “pell-mell” rather than by rank or perceived importance. She also shares Barack Obama’s habit of asking for questions in “‘boy, girl, boy, girl’ fashion.

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings. She also mentioned Giggl , which, in similar fashion, allows a group to interact (text and voice) on a shared internet portal. The MPI meeting had over 150 viewers. pic.twitter.com/rwNmQFFdWJ.

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The five keys to great conference content

Gallus Events

And when this has happened I’ve seen some great conference content structured in a shambolic fashion. 3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design.

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New Research Considers Human-Centered Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

EVENT DESIGN. “My My first white paper, Mindful Event Design, was really driven around a physical sense of meeting design. It’s really rare for a large meeting and event to take place without having some affiliation to a local nonprofit. What we’re looking at here isn’t old-fashioned philanthropy.

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The five keys to great conference content

Gallus Events

And when this has happened I’ve seen some great conference content structured in a shambolic fashion. 3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design.

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The Best Event Planning Books Ever Written

Guidebook

Sure, you can get all your event and meeting planning information from the internet like most of us do these days. (We But what about good, old-fashioned books? Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design by Mike van der Vijver. We gathered all of the web’s best event planning blogs.)

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7 Event Planning Tips the Pros Are Leaning on in 2021

SpotMe Blog

We’ve confirmed that virtual events can be engaging and productive, but only if the meeting design is truly participant driven and takes into consideration the needs of that audience. Clearly, adding a virtual component to an in-person event is so much more than adding a video camera to the back of the room.

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