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5 Hybrid Event Examples To Inspire Your Process

Endless Events

Webinar World, the event designed from webinerds to webinerds, has been in the hybrid game for years. The good folks at ON24 , the company behind the event, have long realized the importance webinars have in today’s marketing landscape. Why not rip off a page from their book? Apple Special Events.

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These aren’t the unconferences you’re looking for

Conferences that Work

Jeremy Lin and the myth of the conference curator , February, 2012. Having (well-designed) discussion sessions during an event is great, but that doesn’t make a meeting an unconference. Meeting conveners : Learn about what unconferences actually are before calling your event one.

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Improve meetings by de-emphasizing old-school status

Conferences that Work

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.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom

Conferences that Work

I started using Zoom in 2012, but since the pandemic began I’ve facilitated more Zoom meetings than the last seven years. And I’ve become intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating the peer processes developed for successful face-to-face meetings into online events. I’ll explain how to do this in a future post.

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Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate

Conferences that Work

This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Here are three things we can do. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings

Conferences that Work

Why mention this on an event design blog? Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education. Tech In Asia explains: “Imagine being near a steep cliff.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

Conferences that Work

For a full explanation of why active learning modalities are superior, see Chapter 4 of my book The Power of Participation.). Active learning beats the pants off the “receiving knowledge” model drummed into our heads through years of listening to teachers. So why do we continue to use broadcast-style formats?