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5 Hybrid Event Examples To Inspire Your Process

Endless Events

Webinar World, the event designed from webinerds to webinerds, has been in the hybrid game for years. The good folks at ON24 , the company behind the event, have long realized the importance webinars have in today’s marketing landscape. Why not rip off a page from their book? Apple Special Events.

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Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate

Conferences that Work

We know that participants — people who are active learners — learn more, retain more, and retain more accurately than passive attendees. They are also far more likely to make valuable connections with their peers during the event. How do we get people to participate at meetings? Here are three things we can do.

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These aren’t the unconferences you’re looking for

Conferences that Work

” “Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. The last example announces that their “unconference” is closing session proposal submissions six months before the actual event! Jeremy Lin and the myth of the conference curator , February, 2012.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom

Conferences that Work

I started using Zoom in 2012, but since the pandemic began I’ve facilitated more Zoom meetings than the last seven years. And I’ve become intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating the peer processes developed for successful face-to-face meetings into online events. I’ll explain how to do this in a future post.

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Improve meetings by de-emphasizing old-school status

Conferences that Work

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. There are two key kinds of event status — let’s call them old-school and real-time.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

Conferences that Work

For a full explanation of why active learning modalities are superior, see Chapter 4 of my book The Power of Participation.). Attendees learn more when presenters use active learning modalities. Active learning beats the pants off the “receiving knowledge” model drummed into our heads through years of listening to teachers.

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Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings

Conferences that Work

Why mention this on an event design blog? As I’ve explained elsewhere , good covenants publicly clarify the freedoms that attendees have at an event, like the freedoms to speak one’s mind , ask questions , and share feelings. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. to say and do.

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