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5 Ways to Build Community Loyalty

Smart Meetings

How to incorporate a sense of belonging into the attendee event experience The phrase “sense of belonging” is defined as the psychological feeling of connectedness to a social, spatial, cultural, professional or other type of group or community (Hurtado & Carter, 1997).

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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Truly creative event design We are biased against truly creative event design.

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A calendar of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

And then there are plenty of unconferences focussed on social and cultural issues, like leadership , DEI , the environment , peace work , political movements , good government , animal welfare , veterans rights —the list goes on! Seeing how peer conference designs benefit these folks when they come together warms my heart.

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. on the eventization of faith.

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Event design is not just visuals and logistics

Conferences that Work

BizBash consistently uses the term “event design” to mean “ visual design” As an example, consider the 2016 Design Issue. The cover proclaims “What’s Next in Event Design?” Whoever they are—young developing leaders, Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

Conferences that Work

Much as I would like to tell you that participant-driven and participation-rich event formats are common these days, it just ain’t so. I’ve run the core Conferences That Work design in a day numerous times, and it’s always a rush. A day and a half is the minimum needed for a group to really benefit.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Improve our organizational culture? How should we: Minimize the bugs in our computer software? Get Apollo 13 safely back to earth after an explosion ? Respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont? Such problems are complex because we: Don’t really know what questions to ask to start; and.