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JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. Tech In Asia explains: “Imagine being near a steep cliff.

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JULY 8, 2019

Meeting planners typically default to squaring the circle when specifying room sets. They persist in seating attendees in long straight lines whenever possible, ignoring the benefits of curved and circular seating at their events. Even though many of the rounds used at meetings are far too large.) The notes at the.

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MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: We know what our attendees want to learn about. At least half the sessions programmed at traditional conferences are not what attendees want. Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Next time it’s old.

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MAY 21, 2018

The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary. Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This seems to be the norm, because when you talk to attendees you find they set a low bar for satisfaction, e.g. “I t’s OK if I learn one new thing a day, oh, and if I make a useful connection or two that would be great! I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. Most of them are dull and largely irrelevant.

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JULY 29, 2019

When running such sessions, it’s important to customize the workshop in real time to meet the actual wants and needs of the participants, rather than plowing through a predetermined agenda that may be partially or largely irrelevant. This did not happen at Traci’s event! .” Customizing a workshop. The notes at the.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. Ultimately, the attendees are the losers when this happens.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

As an example I’ll use a three-day conference I’m currently designing. The participants are four hundred scientists who work all over the world and only get to meet en masse every few years. By “short” I mean four minutes per scientist. The process is repeated for the second set of presenters.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Increasingly we are moving to event models that make participants generators of event value. Meetings that become what the participants want and need them to be, autofocusing on the topics and questions that are of genuine relevance, rather than sessions predefined six months in advance. Sources for additional information.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings for 25 years, and many participants have been kind enough to share that I’m good at what I do (check out the sidebar testimonials). Peer learning in action! Final thoughts. But I don’t want to rest on my laurels. I’m excited!

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MAY 23, 2016

No-tech techniques require only the attendees themselves, while low-tech approaches use readily available and inexpensive materials such as paper and pens. Some techniques include participant interaction, which also improves learning. That’s why I prefer no-tech and low-tech techniques for participatory voting whenever possible.

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MAY 31, 2016

with a matched receiver and software that processes and displays responses — are so commonly used to provide anonymous voting at meetings today that many event planners and attendees are unaware that public voting is a simple and, in many cases, more useful alternative. ” But how often is this necessary? It is one.

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JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? But first….

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JULY 18, 2016

You may be wondering how to effectively structure a panel where the panelists don’t necessarily dominate the proceedings, letting attendees contribute and steer content and discussion in the ways they want and need. Use them and your attendees will thank you! Session goals. Welcome and a fishbowl sandwich. It is one.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. From more engaging, holistic experiences to the the bold new expectations of “bleisure,” event planners and suppliers are racing to adapt in an industry that’s as dynamic as it’s ever been. Millennials are the decision makers now.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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JULY 30, 2018

Afterwards, we saw many people swapping business cards and making arrangements to meet up again. Such workshops routinely meet the outcomes they’re designed to achieve: creating useful and memorable learning experiences and connections. A participant started crying and his group members rushed to console and support him.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian —in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, facilitation, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Let’s explore this in more detail.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

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. It is one.

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