Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, 1—In-person attendees participate in an online session!

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Meeting Online Conference Booking 164

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 25, 2021

How can we design the optimum balance between control versus freedom at meetings? As I wrote in 2010: The reality is that you never had control to begin with, just the myth of control. Note that I’m not suggesting meeting professionals give up any attempt to control what happens at their events. The myth of control.

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Meeting Logistics Conference Online 122

Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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Booking Publishing Meeting Design Technology 117

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event.

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Conference Human Resources Meeting Production 136