Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

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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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

thesis After a postdoctoral year at Tufts, I went on to manage a solar manufacturing company, teach college computer science, and develop a successful information technology consulting practice. True, I was also working, scaling back my IT consulting business, but I had plenty of time to write. My 1977 Ph.D.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. He thought conferences would eventually adopt unconference models. The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? “, and typically bring me in to consult at the “ how? ” and “ who? “, have often fixed their “ when? ” and “ where? ” stage.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

Consulting. During my opening overview of the format, I explained that we might have time for some consulting on a participant’s problem towards the end of the session. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? If so, download.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To facilitate business change, there’s an entire industry of well-paid organizational change management consultants who use different change models. Traditional conference designs also adopt this model. If we want to facilitate change in our lives, having a model of how change happens can be very helpful.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I first designed and convened what I called a “ peer conference ” in 1992 for a group of IT managers at small schools that eventually became known as edACCESS. Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! The Unexpo Experiment.

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