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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.

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Two novel hybrid meeting formats

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I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, Sounds crazy, yes, but stay with me!

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Design your meeting BEFORE choosing the venue!

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I love my meeting design clients, but there is one mistake I see them making over and over again. Clients invariably ask me to help design their meeting after they’ve chosen a venue! Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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How OpenAI Has Misappropriated My Copyright: ChatGPT’s Land Grab

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I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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Control versus freedom at meetings

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How can we design the optimum balance between control versus freedom at meetings? As I wrote in 2010: The reality is that you never had control to begin with, just the myth of control. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Control versus freedom at meetings appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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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. Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!) 3 — Conferences That Work. Instead, let’s broaden our conceptions of what meeting design is. If so, download.