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Which meeting design books should I buy?

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Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. In an outrageous display of chutzpah , I wrote three of these books. [If Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). There are methods of meeting process design in this book I’ve seen nowhere else. (To

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

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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. on the eventization of faith.

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Event design is not just visuals and logistics

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The first time I met him—at the premier EventCamp in 2010 —he immediately purchased my just-published book, sight unseen. The following year, David was kind enough to honor me in his flagship publication BizBash as one of the most innovative event professionals. The cover proclaims “What’s Next in Event Design?”

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5 Reasons I’m Grateful for My Clients After 40+ Years of Consulting

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Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. I ran them in my spare time for thirteen years before writing my first book. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. When it was published in 2009, my peer conference work exploded.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

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In 2009, the biologist E.O. 9 September 2009. 9 September 2009. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote a long book about this. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. ” — E. Wilson , debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass.,

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Event innovation, Disney, and souvenirs

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It’s hard to create genuinely new experiences for special events like galas, life celebrations, and incentive programs. The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. I’ve written books about them.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 2

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It’s described and explained in all three of my books. You can find the most detailed implementation in Chapter 18 of my 2019 book, Event Crowdsourcing. Conferences That Work [2009] (Chapter 25, pages 260-265). I developed The Three Questions in 1995 as a fundamental opening process for peer conferences.

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