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Six fundamental ways to make a better conference

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The other day, a client booked an hour with me to discuss how to make their conference better. Not much time, but enough for us to uncover and for me to suggest plenty of significant improvements. The notes at the.

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Conference Education Booking Event Design

Squaring the circle: creating room sets for connection

Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve explained the importance of curved seating and large circle sets in detail in my book The Power of Participation (Chapter 13), so I won’t reiterate its value here. And we all know that the most intimate and useful small group conversation and connection occurs around round tables. The notes at the.

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Conference Education Booking Benefits

Many “experiential” events are just razzle-dazzle

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Buy my new book—The Power of Participation—before July 1 at never-to-be-repeated prices I’m happy to announce that my new book—The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action—will be available for purchase in all formats and outlets on. The notes at the.

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Guaranteeing audience engagement at your events

Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The participants I spoke with after the workshop told me how excited they were: planning to read the book and start putting what they had experienced into improving their professional development work in education. It’s possible to create amazing learning and connection though approaches I’ve outlined above. Near Atlanta?

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Improve meetings by de-emphasizing old-school status

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. There are two key kinds of event status — let’s call them old-school and real-time. The notes at the.

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Bedload Experts Meet in Interlaken for an International Symposium

The MICE Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

I interviewed the event organiser, Dr. Carlos R. Wyss, Project Manager at Wasser-Agenda 21, who gave insights into the event design process. In 2011, the Swiss Water Act was updated and under the new revision, all hydropower operators are obligated to refurbish their installations until 2030. Challenges.

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Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate

Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Here are three things we can do. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Sources for additional information.

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To build connection and engagement at events — give up control!

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 16, 2017

Giving up control over the choices at your conferences by handing it over to the participants — using proven process, of course —is one of the best ways to build trust, connection, and engagement at your events. Photo attribution: Flickr user kt. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Sources for additional information.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). Here are my impressions of a session I attended in 2011.). Complex problems. Complex problems (“unknown unknowns”) are even harder to resolve. Here are some examples.

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Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings

Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011.

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Bizzabo Adds Room-Block Management to its Offerings

MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2024

The New York-based meeting-management platform now makes it simpler for attendees to book rooms and for organizers to track pickup. Bizzabo, founded in 2011, has seen a number of acquisitions and partnerships in the past few years. Most recently, the company worked with creative agency Smyle to launch Bizzabo Studios in September 2023.

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

Actually I don’t need to do that since Donald Bligh listed them all in his classic book What’s The Use Of Lectures? Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. first published in 1972 ! Sources for additional information.

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“Less Meetings, More Doing?” Nope!

Conferences that Work

MARCH 6, 2017

Check out the personal introspective and group spective (including the action outcome version ) processes I’ve been designing and facilitating for years. For full details, see my book The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action. Sources for additional information.

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It became necessary to destroy the conference to save it

Conferences that Work

JUNE 11, 2018

Sue, Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information.

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How to create amazing conference programs that don’t waste attendee time

Conferences that Work

MARCH 19, 2018

Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information.

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Participatory voting at events: Part 2—Low-tech versus high-tech solutions

Conferences that Work

MAY 23, 2016

Here’s a list, taken from a glossary of participation techniques covered in detail in my book The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action. Wondering what no-tech and low-tech techniques can be used for participatory voting? Body/Continuum Voting : See Human Spectrograms.

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An introduction to participatory voting—Part 3: Public, semi-anonymous, and anonymous voting

Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2016

Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information.

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The Ultimate Directory of Top UK Event Agencies

Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Conference Care Hinckley, Leicestershire Conference Care provide unrivalled independent venue sourcing & event management services. Ensuring your meetings & events deliver maximum impact and return of investment. These events, designed for senior decision-makers, offer a confidential setting to address pressing business topics.

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What’s the best learning model for conference sessions?

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As explained in my books , we know that the active learning that occurs through attendee discovery is indeed more effective than the learning that may result from sharing information with passive listeners. Quotes from David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous , Times Books, 2007. Attendees spend time discovering and investigating.”

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