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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

An event that: Asks potential presenters to submit pre-event proposals for sessions isn’t an unconference. The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers.

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Doing peer conferences right

Conferences that Work

After I talked about my meeting design work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. . Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?!