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Make the meeting bigger!

Conferences that Work

The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings. Our trade magazines mainly report on big events, the ones with big-name speakers and eye candy razzle-dazzle. For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. So don’t try to make the meeting bigger. What to do?

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

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 ?

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

At times, we also remove speakers and volunteer leaders as they may justify their participation based more on those roles than their education and networking experience. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association.

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A few thoughts about events for the event industry

Gallus Events

IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! It is run by Event Industry News an online magazine. Chances that the organiser will pay for the time the speakers have put into preparing, traveling and delivering that content will be low.

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5 Innovative Meeting Formats

PCMA Convene

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally. Some speakers might be concerned about giving up the ability to manage the material.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. As you probably know by now, we are pleased to entertain today our guest speaker Adrian Segar. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. I define myself as a meeting designer and facilitator.

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40 Social Media Influencers Every Hospitality Professional Should Follow

Social Tables

Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. Dahlia is an event technology evangelist, speaker and educator. Events Uncovered is an innovative space for event experts to meet, discuss, learn and share their knowledge of the event industry. TahiraCreates. ChipConley.