Conferences that Work

JANUARY 14, 2019

We’ve all experienced the meeting question that isn’t. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Handling a meeting question that isn’t appeared first on Conferences That Work. The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

You can improve meetings by de-emphasizing status. Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. It’s time to revisit this important topic. The notes at the.

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JULY 9, 2018

Although you’d never guess it from reading meeting industry trade journals, most meetings are small meetings , and this is a good thing if you want effective and relevant connection and learning to take place. Sources for additional information.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Design is how it works. “ —Steve Jobs, The Guts of a New Machine , 2003 New York Times interview If only we applied Steve’s insight to event design. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Event Design is how it works appeared first on Conferences That Work. The notes at the.

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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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Conferences that Work

MARCH 6, 2017

Many believe that meetings are an unpleasant evil that sucks time and energy away from getting things done. That’s unfortunate, because meetings — when done right — are one of the most powerful business tools for creating the action outcomes that stakeholders and participants want and need. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 22, 2019

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. The notes at the.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

“Intel’s annual meeting was entirely virtual. ” — Steven Davidoff Solomon , New York Times, Online Shareholders’ Meetings Lower Costs, but Also Interaction. Forty years later, “group telemedia”, now known as virtual meetings, are firmly established and increasingly popular.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

” —Ian Bogost, Gamification is B t (2011). The rhetorical power of the word “gamification” is enormous, and it does precisely what the b *s want: it takes games—a mysterious, magical, powerful medium that has captured the attention of millions of people—and it makes them accessible in the context of contemporary business.”

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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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Conferences that Work

APRIL 3, 2017

How do room sets imply and influence what happens at meetings? Related posts: The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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APRIL 29, 2019

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. The notes at the. It is one.

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MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Participant-driven and participation-rich events provide far more opportunities to meet people you actually want to meet. But making your meeting better lasts.

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MARCH 13, 2017

How do we get people to participate at meetings? They are also far more likely to make valuable connections with their peers during the event. Seth Godin describes a desirable meeting mindset: What would happen… if we chose to: …Sit in the front row. Ask a hard question every time we go to a meeting….

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JUNE 11, 2018

Sue, 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. Sources for additional information.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? The Solution Room—an introductory video The talented graphic facilitator Kristine Nygaard of Kiss the frog, whom I had the recent pleasure of meeting at FRESH 2013, has created a delightful one-minute video that introduces The Solution Room, a.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 15, 2019

While Liberating Structures include many useful ways to improve meetings and organizations, one of the “simplest” offered — “ 1-2-4-All ” — has a big problem. It claims to uncover a group’s “important ideas” in just twelve minutes. The notes at the.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Read the full article at Conferences That Work 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. Sources for additional information.

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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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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

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 ” I disagree.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. Sources for additional information. It is one.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

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. Sources for additional information.

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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. Sources for additional information.

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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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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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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. Stay on time! It seems obvious to do this. The notes at the.

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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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Conferences that Work

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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MAY 23, 2016

Related posts: The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. Sources for additional information. Near Atlanta? I’ll.

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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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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. C2 is pushing the envelope for event experiences.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

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. There’s no one “best” way to do this of course, but here’s the format I used for these two particular sessions.

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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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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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