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MPI WEC Inspired Action in San Francisco

Smart Meetings

The offerings started with an invitation to consider new perspectives and worked their way through to a call to design based on a healthy understanding of where people have been, what they need now and what will work in the future. Meeting Industry Leadership Award went to CTA Event Designer & DMC Managing Director Valeria Serrano Suzan.

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Gamification makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli

Conferences that Work

” —Ian Bogost, Gamification is B t (2011). Related posts: Create Your Dream Conference Collectively On This Friday’s #Eventprofs Happy Hour Join me and my special guest Bernie DeKoven on Friday, November 20, 2015 from 4 – 6 pm EST for a unique online experience where we’ll collectively create our perfect.

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Bedload Experts Meet in Interlaken for an International Symposium

The MICE Blog

I interviewed the event organiser, Dr. Carlos R. Wyss, Project Manager at Wasser-Agenda 21, who gave insights into the event design process. In 2011, the Swiss Water Act was updated and under the new revision, all hydropower operators are obligated to refurbish their installations until 2030. Event format.

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Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings

Conferences that Work

The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. 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. Sources for additional information.

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Nine conference mythodologies

Conferences that Work

Reality : If you’re using smile sheets or online surveys, you’re learning nothing about the long-term value of your meeting. (And, by the way, most conferences are small conferences.) Mythodology: We know what attendees like, don’t like, and value about our meeting. This is the meeting industry’s biggest dirty secret.

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

There was no in-person gathering site, the questions were submitted in advance, and management and the board made all of their presentations online.” ” — Steven Davidoff Solomon , New York Times, Online Shareholders’ Meetings Lower Costs, but Also Interaction. “Intel’s annual meeting was entirely virtual.

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

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. The hub event and each pod may be either in-person or online.

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