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Conferences that Work
AUGUST 24, 2020
Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. In an outrageous display of chutzpah , I wrote three of these books. [If Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).
Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. Though I love my work, it was nice to reduce the number of high-intensity workdays booked in 2023!
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Conferences that Work
MARCH 21, 2022
I decided to facilitate an online workshop in Gatherly that took full advantage of the platform. This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation.
Conferences that Work
APRIL 18, 2022
Both are unique, as far as I know, in that the in-person and online participants are the same people ! The first novel hybrid meeting format was invented by Joel Backon back in 2010. The second is a design I’ll be using in a conference I’ve designed and will be facilitating in June 2022. The online portion.
Conferences that Work
MAY 20, 2024
Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. I ran them in my spare time for thirteen years before writing my first book. The result was that I wrote two supplements to the book that I published in 2013 and 2015. Participants said, “Why don’t you do that this way?”
Conferences that Work
JULY 17, 2023
I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics. I don’t think so.
Conferences that Work
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings. From small, high-level, high-stakes get-togethers to association regional and national meetings of every size. In-person, online, and hybrid. You name it, I’ve probably done it. What do my clients think?
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