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Good meeting design is cheaper than special effects

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Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meeting design. “There’s no budget” I’ve noticed over the years that every meeting has a budget for F&B. There’s often a budget for a dramatic big-name speaker or two. Seth Godin makes an analogous point in this post….

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Try New Event Ideas For 2018: Create a Roadshow, Book Underrated Venues, Create a Unique Event Experience

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But with recent trends focusing more towards personalization and customization, meetings are definitely getting a big tech upgrade this year. One thing did catch our eye from the article though: smart drugs. Read about the rest via the article up top. Catch more trends through the article we linked above.

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Don’t keep me a secret!

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” “Substance, not celebrity… celebrity speakers will not boost registrations. So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who have purchased my books or the hundreds of clients who have benefited from my meeting design and facilitation services, please don’t keep me a secret! © Freeman 2024.

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

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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

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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 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.

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The fairest rules for meetings

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” I think it’s reasonable to concentrate on fairness to participants : the majority of those involved with the meeting. In his influential 1971 book A Theory of Justice , John suggested that “the fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.”.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

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For a full explanation of why active learning modalities are superior, see Chapter 4 of my book The Power of Participation.). Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. Superstar lecturers and motivational speakers.