Conferences that Work
MARCH 25, 2024
Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Write a book? So here’s my story.
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
If you do this, using Google Books Ngram Viewer , you’ll notice a curious thing. In 1804, the earliest year included in the Google Books database, the word interaction barely appears. Society, as reflected by books in English, now talks about interaction about twice as often as presentation.
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Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 16, 2019
If you had told me forty years ago, a freshly minted high-energy particle physics postdoc, that I’d go on to have four additional careers (owner of a solar manufacturing business, computer science professor, independent IT consultant, and meeting designer/facilitator) I wouldn’t have believed you.
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
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
A September 2019 research study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences clearly illustrates why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it! For a full explanation of why active learning modalities are superior, see Chapter 4 of my book The Power of Participation.).
Conferences that Work
MAY 11, 2020
And I’ve become intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating the peer processes developed for successful face-to-face meetings into online events. It’s time to implement what we’ve learned about great face-to-face meeting design and process into online meetings. Meetings will never be the same.
Conferences that Work
APRIL 8, 2019
Organizations hear about these conferences and ask me to design and facilitate them. I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. Five years earlier, self-publishing was a minor industry for vanity projects.
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