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Bedload Experts Meet in Interlaken for an International Symposium

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I interviewed the event organiser, Dr. Carlos R. Wyss, Project Manager at Wasser-Agenda 21, who gave insights into the event design process. Wasser-Agenda 21 provides a platform for the stakeholders to meet and exchange about current and future water management challenges, aiming to provide solutions. Target audience.

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Guaranteeing audience engagement at your events

Conferences that Work

Most people won’t ask questions at meetings. So how can you get authentic audience engagement at your events? In a thoughtful article “ Audience Engagement – at the Heart of Meetings “, Pádraic Gilligan writes: “…We all want audience engagement so why doesn’t it take place?…While

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Handling a meeting question that isn’t

Conferences that Work

We’ve all experienced the meeting question that isn’t. Here are ways to deal with audience questions that aren’t actually questions. Here are ways to deal with audience questions that aren’t actually questions. Are you tired of attendees making statements during question time? The notes at the.

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Panels as if the audience mattered

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Each session was designed to discover and meet wants and needs of the executive officers and volunteers of the association’s regional chapters’ members in an area of special interest. All three panelists sat together with me, and I asked the audience to hold questions until all three had finished. Session goals.

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Any questions? Rethinking traditional Q&A

Conferences that Work

Hands rise, and the presenter picks an audience member who asks a question. Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011.

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The best way to fundamentally improve your dull conference

Conferences that Work

And when I began creating conferences myself, I used the same standard format: invite experts in the field to speak to audiences. Ever since, thanks to that happy accident, I have been designing and facilitating peer conferences that people have loved for over a quarter-century. ” “I’m an introvert. It is one.

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The workshop that wasn’t

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Also, he polled people in the audience and asked who was B2B [business-to-business] and who B2C [business-to-consumer]. This did not happen at Traci’s event! He then proceeded to talk for 4 hours! I did learn stuff and it prompted some ideas, but imagine how much better they might stick if it actually was a workshop.

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