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Lessons from Anguilla: What meeting designers can learn from religious services

Conferences that Work

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 meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. Provide an emotional experience.

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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. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ? I discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago.

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27 years of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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3 Ways to Engage Your Audience at Your Event

Social Tables

You have all your ducks in a row: awesome venue booked, killer catering secured and tickets to your event are sold out. Choose Chicago (@ChooseChicago) December 28, 2014. casesmc pic.twitter.com/o3A6ZcPJ7E — Christine Tempesta (@ctempesta) November 7, 2014. BizBash Live (@BizBashLive) October 28, 2014. Who’s with me?

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). In the meetings world, the most well known are the series of EventCamps that were held around the world between 2010 and 2014. Complex problems. Here are some examples.