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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. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded.

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

Conferences that Work

When it was published in 2009, my peer conference work exploded. Today, because consulting on meeting design and facilitation is a niche practice, marketing via sharing my website posts with subscribers and on social media has also become a significant source of new clients. And, my goodness, I got feedback!

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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.

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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.

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Never Run Out of Ideas: Lessons Learned from Writing 1000+ Blog Posts

Conferences that Work

If you’d told me back in 2009 that by 2024 I’d have written over a thousand blog posts for this website, I’d have told you you were crazy. (I’ve I’ve published 827; the rest are drafts, but still.) I’d have thought I would have run out of ideas years ago. Yes, I do have new ideas regularly!

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry. Adrian Segar: The subtlety of designing meetings is that you need people who I would call facilitators. Adrian Segar: Okay.