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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Attendees loved my events! I don’t want to go to another traditional conference again.” Slow progress, eventually leading to triumph In 2007, something changed. His enthusiasm for my conference design work was a huge boost. Nothing worked. I felt stupid and incompetent. Yet somehow, I persevered.

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What’s the best learning model for conference sessions?

Conferences that Work

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.