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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Write a book? Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. So here’s my story.

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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. We had a strong year in 2008, and in January 2009, we began getting cancellations one after another. By the end of 2009, things were recovering. You have a new book coming out.

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Focusing on Mission-Driven Work

Convene by PCMA

In her new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth , Salesforce executive Tiffani Bova unveils one way companies can keep employees happy. From 2009 to 2019, Unilever CEO Paul Polman zeroed in on the idea that purpose can help reduce tensions in the workforce and create optimal conditions for growth.

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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. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.) on the eventization of faith.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

In 2009, the biologist E.O. 9 September 2009. 9 September 2009. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote a long book about this. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. ” — E. Wilson , debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass.,

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Mike Dominguez’ Predictions for 2019

Smart Meetings

Since 2009, hotel room occupancy has increased steadily and is now breaking records with average occupancy at 65.5 Demand from individual travelers has grown even faster than bookings from groups. Transient Room Stays Rising Fastest. percent in the United States. “We

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Event innovation, Disney, and souvenirs

Conferences that Work

The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. I’ve written books about them. It’s hard to create genuinely new experiences for special events like galas, life celebrations, and incentive programs. Hey, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.)

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