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Which meeting design books should I buy?

Conferences that Work

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

Event professional turned full-time blogger Irina Graf has created an event industry networking and destination focused blog with an international view. On their blog, you’ll find great insights into digital marketing and experiential marketing for corporate events, as well as trade show presentation. Plan Your Meetings.

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‘A Larger Voice’: How the Pandemic Is Changing Global Meetings Industry Day

Convene by PCMA

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), Thursday, April 7, was launched five years ago by the 70-member Meetings Mean Business industry coalition as an annual day of industry-wide advocacy focused on raising the profile of the economic value of business events, trade shows and exhibitions, and incentive travel.

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#RotterdamExperiment 2 – The best gamification is gamification that is unnoticed

The MICE Blog

We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. a shorter attention span of the participants, how to ensure sufficient interaction and networking). Additionally, by forming teams, people will get to know each other—there’s the networking element.

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The UnExpo Experiment

Conferences that Work

Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International.

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5 Meeting Industry Trends That Are Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

” For these reasons, millennials value networking over almost any other aspect of events. Trapeze chairs, a speakeasy, smoothie shots at the revolving entrance, Cirque du Soleil performances… The laundry list of creative attractions at Montreal’s C2 conference sounds more like a festival than a networking event.

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5 Ways the Meetings Industry is Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

” For these reasons, millennials value networking over almost any other aspect of events. But make no mistake, the networking is there: over 3,000 face-to-face meetings were scheduled at C2 2017 alone. So they’re boldly blending the two when they travel to exhibitions and trade shows.

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