Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

What are the fairest rules to use when running meetings? ” I think it’s reasonable to concentrate on fairness to participants : the majority of those involved with the meeting. All meetings have rules, whether overt or covert, conscious or unconscious, that influence how they proceed. Status and power at meetings.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2023

A recently published Freeman report highlights a significant shift in the demographics of B2B event attendees. With this new generation of younger, more diverse, and more educated attendees emerging, the event industry must adapt to meet their evolving needs and expectations. As a speaker, I would get more value from it.” “I

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online meetings improve access and attendance. Online events make it easier for them to attend. Read the article for details.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 16, 2020

Despite the terrible impacts of the coronavirus on the meeting industry, there’s a silver lining. The meeting industry is reeling under a wave of cancellations, postponements, and uncertainty. I believe there are three silver linings that are long-term positives for the meeting industry. Hear me out!

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Endless Events

APRIL 27, 2018

It was Global Meetings Industry Day a while back so we peeked into the corporate meeting trends and statistics that have shaped the past year. One of the top influencers for the industry was TED which forever changed the speaker-audience format worldwide. Here’s How the Meetings Industry Changed around the World.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). One of the talks that impressed me the most was ‘Participant experience design – how do we create meetings which move people more deeply?’

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Endless Events

JULY 31, 2020

Virtual components definitely have their time and place and can be super beneficial in the events community, but we can never disregard the importance of humans meetings together in-person. EIC has released a Meeting & Event Design Guide for the Covid-19 Era. Read This Before Planning A Hybrid Event!

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What’s an Ideal Meeting? April 2018, Meetings and Conventions Magazine Do you incorporate participatory sessions into your events? 80% of meeting professionals prefer f acilitated workshop-style, participatory sessions [ survey by M&C Research, April 2018 Meeting and Conventions magazine ]!

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Though I don’t teach college anymore, I’m interested in educational class design because a class is a meeting. And much of what we can do to design great meetings is applicable to college classes too. The speakers didn’t model what they were preaching during their talk! No related posts.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. As you probably know by now, we are pleased to entertain today our guest speaker Adrian Segar. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Tired of meetings that don’t end on time? Things were bad enough when we held our meetings in person. Now so many meetings are online, it’s easy to saddle remote workers with back-to-back meetings. But you can stay on time at online meetings when they’re your meetings — if you follow the guidance below!

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 20, 2020

“Free discussions” at meetings frequently suffer from the same phenomenon. If you want to support everyone’s right to share at a meeting, you’ll need to facilitate what happens via defining and agreeing on who can speak, and when, and for how long. Who goes next at an online meeting? Who goes next?

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Here are five examples of how explicit communication improves meetings. 1—Tell attendees how your meeting socials will be social! Want to make your meeting “socials” actually social? I’ve been at too many event parties where loud music was inescapable. Don’t just throw a party with loud music.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 15, 2024

. ‘Connect’ The importance of connection A survey I conducted of attendees while writing Conferences That Work confirmed (as do many other meeting surveys) that the two most important reasons people go to meetings are to connect (80%) and learn (75%). Nevertheless, many conferences are structured like this.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 27, 2023

Just Google “leading with empathy” and the resulting mountain of recent articles on that topic could lead you to think we’ve just discovered we have this human trait. Learn and Earn Earn one clock hour of certification by visiting the CMP Series page to answer questions about these articles. Read More

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’d argue that hiring me is the most effective and cost-effective way to improve any event. 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.

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Traveler's Q

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When executed correctly, event branding can help to establish a powerful connection between your brand and your target audience, building credibility and increasing brand recognition. In this article, we explore the importance of event branding and the impact it can have on your business’s success.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this post, you’ll find a comprehensive list of the most important event industry conferences that every event professional should attend this year. Attending these conferences will allow you to learn more about the events industry and meet other event professionals. Event Production Show (EPS) Feb.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 5, 2017

All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It equips you with the knowledge and insights to ensure your events align with current trends and expectations. One of the best ways to discover what’s new and trending is by reading event marketing blogs and subscribing to fresh content from event planning websites. Read Now 2. Read Now 5.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2023

discussions to a “Belong-a-palooza” to a filmmaker workshop, fresh topics will complement evergreen sessions such as event contracting and meeting security, for a lively educational agenda. Coordinating the behemoth task is Tahira Endean, head of programming and a self-described “total event nerd.” From generative A.I

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 22, 2024

My January 15, 2024 article “ Concerns about using facial analysis at events ” generated much discussion. The European Data Protection Board, in particular, has clearly noted that facial analysis alone does not fall under Article 9. Badge scanning tech is common at meetings. What about consent versus notice?

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Recent research suggests that when resources become limited, business leaders tend to become risk-averse and prioritize stability over innovation, according to the article. Sounds like the value proposition for events, no?) One quarter identified event design and content delivery as a priority.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 27, 2022

As meetings and trade shows make their in-person comeback, one big issue is around engagement. That would allow meeting organizers, exhibitors, and sponsors to make adjustments while an event is still going on. Engagement is an element stimulated by learning, spectacle, and active observation,” says the report.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 12, 2021

Is the end of an event important? 8 years ago, I wrote about how to create especially memorable events. Including many different kinds of short experiences during our meetings, allows us to hack the peak-end rule to maximize the impact of an event on attendees. What can we learn from professional speakers?

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here’s a short introduction to these technologies, and how the meeting industry is starting to use them. Governments have adopted biometric systems to meet security concerns. So it’s not surprising that companies have developed facial technologies to provide new forms of data to event owners.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

So, unlike a speaker or presenter, I am comfortable being the center of inattention most of the time. I have a standing invitation for event and hospitality teachers to meet online with their class for free. I love spending time with such students—the future of the meeting industry—and finding out what’s on their minds.

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Conferences that Work

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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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Here’s my article “ Five Reasons to Change Conferences “ , published in the December 2018, NSA Speaker magazine. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Five Reasons to Change Conferences appeared first on Conferences That Work. Here are five reasons why.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 25, 2018

Where graduates wait in long lines, sit for hours on uncomfortable chairs, get sunburn, and listen to (mostly) boring speakers someone else chose. A graduation is an Elementary Meeting : a social event that consists of obligatory, tacitly agreed series of actions performed by those taking part. Ah, the joys of graduation!

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Extending your event brand. Similarly, to successfully extend your event brand you need to design appropriate additive and new experiences into it over time. Having a new lineup every year of speakers at conferences, or different decor and F&B at special events is not enough. Event innovation?

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. Breaks aren’t communal activities.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Speaker recruiting? Kristin Arnold [I think you’re referring to Zoom Rooms, not Zoom Meetings. Mostly because my panelists are tech people and not always the best speakers????. More hybrid meetings in future. That way, the audience can meet them and have one on one conversations. 10 mins: How did that go?

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Endless Events

MARCH 23, 2018

We tackle this hot issue in an upcoming webinar with our very own Will Curran and Brandt Krueger, as they talk about simple ways to ensure data security for your event before, during and after the date itself. Jump into the article to get your invite! Webinar] The Best Way To Ensure Cybersecurity in Your Events. Definitely!

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Conferences that Work

JULY 31, 2017

Although I have good reasons to champion meeting designs where the participants get to choose what they want and need to discuss and learn rather than a program committee , there is invariably a place for some predetermined presentations at conferences. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 23, 2022

After two years of only designing and facilitating online meetings, I’m suddenly immersed in preparing for in-person meetings again. Two multi-day events, 2,000 miles apart, in the space of a week. I find it tough preparing for meetings. Frankly, I feel just plain nervous before the event.

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