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5 Ways to Build Community Loyalty

Smart Meetings

So, how can we implement innovative ideas and audience-focused design thinking to plan events that create a magnetic communal experience that is personalized to each attendee? Offer Personalization Before, During and After the Event Engaged attendees are actively involved in designing their event experience.

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Panels as if the audience mattered

Conferences that Work

Several weeks before the conference, I scheduled separate 30-minute interviews with the six panelists to educate myself about the issues surrounding the session topics and to discover what they could bring to the sessions that would likely be interesting and useful for their audience. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

Conferences that Work

In addition, audience attention remains high because the presenter and their material is changing every five minutes, well within the ten minutes Bligh and John Medina cite as a maximum before listener attention flags. Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

Conferences that Work

Much as I would like to tell you that participant-driven and participation-rich event formats are common these days, it just ain’t so. Participant-driven and participation-rich events are messy and, by the standards of a content-dump-into-listeners-ears event, relatively inefficient.

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2019 Tech Conferences: The #1 Tech Events Guide

Bizzaboo

How have data privacy measures evolved the way publishers build a relationship with their audience? More than 60 internationally renowned speakers, hundreds of tech leaders, innovative business owners and leading companies for the two-day event designed to take you on a step-by-step journey through every topic of software development.