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Facilitating change: The power of sharing our experience

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Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Facilitating change: The power of sharing our experience appeared first on Conferences That Work. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Events operate by stories

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Just as good stories have a story arc , coherent events have a conference arc. In addition, every event participant creates their own story at an event, just as each reader or viewer individually absorbs and experiences a book or movie story. Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). Here are three session-based examples: At the 2010 edACCESS conference, Joel Backon designed an incredible experiment to explore the use of online collaborative tools , which at the time were in their infancy.

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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. Eric de Groot and Mike van der Vijver’s book “ Into the Heart of Meetings ” contains numerous examples of using Elementary Meeting metaphors to discover new congruent meeting forms.

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

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Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. Actually I don’t need to do that since Donald Bligh listed them all in his classic book What’s The Use Of Lectures? Image attribution: Marisha Aziz Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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2019 Tech Conferences: The #1 Tech Events Guide

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At one of the leading workplace tech conferences, attendees learn about the latest in collaboration solutions, content management, and machine learning. Lean Startup Summit brings the big ideas from Eric Ries’s books off the page to show how organizations are making them real around the world. Lean Startup Summit Europe. Web Summit.