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FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Many meetings still focus on creating audiences rather than community. And not just at meetings. Damon Kiesow , @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net, Mastodon toot on Nov 06, 2022, 10:37 Kiesow concisely sums up why the news business and the meeting industry concentrate on audience rather than community.
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OCTOBER 11, 2021
I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” And so it goes with meetings. It’s why businesses sponsor meetings. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality.
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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.
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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. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. My 1977 Ph.D.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The manufacturer suggests we shouldn’t take for granted the strength of the thick aluminum foil holding our main course. There have been many times when I’ve been understandably silent/disengaged/distracted during meetings, and I’m sure everyone else has too. I have no other excuse. Support the bottom. It makes sense.
Conferences that Work
APRIL 8, 2019
1978: I join the management of Solar Alternative , a solar energy manufacturing business founded the previous year. I quickly discover the size and interest of the meetings industry. Due to interest and demand, I become a meeting designer and facilitator of participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.
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JULY 27, 2020
Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meeting design and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was. I have extremely wide feet (5E or 6E or XX, depending on manufacturer). I see one or two cars a day, and two or three pedestrians a year.
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