Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. One bright spot has been the normalization of online meetings for routine connection and collaboration. We have also seen the emergence of new forms of online events, supported by solid business models. So don’t try to make the meeting bigger.

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Meeting Meeting Design Online Sponsors 132

Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Increasing attendee satisfaction increases the effectiveness of the event for all stakeholders: attendees, sponsors, and event owners. Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings. In-person, online, and hybrid. It’s a win-win-win. What do my clients think?

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components. 15:00 Why we need to have participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

By “suppliers” I mean vendors of products or services, and sponsors. By “practitioners” I mean the folks who do what the meeting is about; e.g., doctors at a medical event or scientists at a conservation conference. Recently I attended an online speed dating platform’s meeting industry event.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

Why not make life easier for your while delivering better value to sponsors? Use the right online tools that will get the most bang out of your event bucks. Online Tools to Make Registration a Breeze. Today there are multiple options for attendees to check in to events, whether offline or online.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s why businesses sponsor meetings. It’s why we judge meeting experiences largely based on how they were perceived at their peak and at their end. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. Much as we would like to believe otherwise, our emotions run us, not our rationality. Institutions.

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Meeting Technology Technology Manufacturing 115

The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Asked about the challenges in creating Momentum, Christel shared, ‘When bringing the hackathon online, everyone’s success depends on their ability to connect and collaborate with other people. However, collaboration remotely or online is highly fragmented. And we really wanted to bring that online.

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