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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.)

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

Having been on Twitter (yes, I know it’s been renamed “X”, sue me) since 2009, I’d describe Mastodon as the old Twitter. See the graph of my monthly website pageviews below.) What Twitter was back then When I joined Twitter in June 2009, the platform was just about to take off. What do I mean by that?

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5 Reasons I’m Grateful for My Clients After 40+ Years of Consulting

Conferences that Work

Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. I’m still proud of how well Conferences That Work lays out the fundamental reasons for the importance and value of peer conferences.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. And then in 2005, twenty-eight years later, I felt compelled to write a book about the new ways I’d developed to design and lead conferences that became what the participants wanted and needed. and the how?

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Animazement Conference: Much More Than Cosplay

Convene by PCMA

Website: animazement.com . Since its first official event in 1998, this celebration has continued to grow, moving from small hotels to its current host venue, the Raleigh Convention Center, in 2009. Animazement. Date: May 27-29, 2022. Place: Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina. 2022 attendees: 10,812. Culture Class.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE Blog

I want to re-share this article that I wrote back in 2019 and was initially published on VDVO website , because the principles of event design remain the same, the human is in the centre of every experience that we want to design for our events and technology technology should enhance this experience, and not replace it. Practical examples.

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Friends don’t let friends give away their content

Conferences that Work

Instead, invest in your own website. Seven years ago I started the website you’re reading. According to my weblogs, this site is now one of the most popular websites on meeting design and related issues, with 31 million page views to date, 25 million of which were made in the last three years. Get the picture?

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