Conferences that Work

JANUARY 14, 2019

Are you tired of attendees making statements during question time? Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. There are two key kinds of event status — let’s call them old-school and real-time. The notes at the.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2018

While many might talk about event experience design, few have focused so intently on this crucial success driver. Since its development in 2011, the design team at Maritz Global Events has continued to refine their design methodology and practice.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? As I’ve explained elsewhere , good covenants publicly clarify the freedoms that attendees have at an event, like the freedoms to speak one’s mind , ask questions , and share feelings. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. to say and do.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: We know what our attendees want to learn about. At least half the sessions programmed at traditional conferences are not what attendees want. Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Reality : No, you don’t.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

.” Skilled leaders know to uncover the wants and needs of participants at the start of the session, and use the information to build a workshop that’s optimized for the attendees. In my experience, attendees prefer well-designed workshops to almost any other session format. One final suggestion. The notes at the.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 16, 2017

At traditional conferences, attendees choose from predetermined sets of sessions chosen by conference organizers. Think about your experience of such events. We saw ourselves giving him some control. He may have seen us as taking it away.” ” —Naomi Karten, The Importance of Giving Others a Sense of Control.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This seems to be the norm, because when you talk to attendees you find they set a low bar for satisfaction, e.g. “I t’s OK if I learn one new thing a day, oh, and if I make a useful connection or two that would be great! I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. Most of them are dull and largely irrelevant.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 21, 2018

Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants. The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Ultimately, the attendees are the losers when this happens. A client asked me to facilitate a 90-minute workshop for 600 attendees. But when it was time to start, no attendees appeared. But I was disappointed and puzzled that so many attendees had missed out on an excellent experience. Obviously, I wanted to find out why.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information. I’m excited!

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 20, 2016

If we think of an event as the thing that happened between the moments when the first attendee arrived and the last person left, we are ignoring the changes in the knowledge, viewpoints, and connections, and the subsequent outcomes that the event created. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

Attendees then spend the rest of the 45 minutes browsing content that interests them, with the poster creator available for explanations, elaborations, and discussions as needed. Each poster session begins with half the presenters giving a one-minute summary of their work/poster to everyone present. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 23, 2016

No-tech techniques require only the attendees themselves, while low-tech approaches use readily available and inexpensive materials such as paper and pens. Some techniques include participant interaction, which also improves learning. That’s why I prefer no-tech and low-tech techniques for participatory voting whenever possible.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2016

with a matched receiver and software that processes and displays responses — are so commonly used to provide anonymous voting at meetings today that many event planners and attendees are unaware that public voting is a simple and, in many cases, more useful alternative. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

You may be wondering how to effectively structure a panel where the panelists don’t necessarily dominate the proceedings, letting attendees contribute and steer content and discussion in the ways they want and need. Use them and your attendees will thank you! Welcome and a fishbowl sandwich. ” Yours can be too!

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern event design. Because of that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. Since the meeting industry is shaped by attendee expectations, successful events have to cater to millennials.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern event design. With that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. In an industry shaped by attendee expectations, successful events have to cater to their wants and desires.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. But first….

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Ironically, in my experience it’s almost always easier to create memorable learning and valuable connection for attendees by employing participatory workshop formats. Many organizations focus on getting the “best” experts to speak at their meetings. Sources for additional information. Please help me (and hopefully yourself)!

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian —in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, facilitation, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Here’s how Jeff Hurt describes this approach, which he calls surface learning , contrasting it with deep learning where attendees discover through exploratory activity: Content Covered Or Discovered. The attendee consumes as much as the speaker says as possible and tries to store it in the mind.

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