Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? Online pods.

Meeting 147

Meeting Online Remote Conference 147

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Here are my impressions of a session I attended in 2011.). Many of the people I met remain friends today.

Conference 148

Conference Human Resources Production Meeting 148

Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Eventbrite is a global platform provi ding online event registration solutions to event organizers, but their blog is jam-packed with fast-reads on the general subjects of event planning, promotion and tech. It’s great that so many event industry blogs now have podcasts too! In this case, it’s the GatherGeeks podcast. Eventbrite. Techsytalk.

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Trade Show Events Planner Trends 333

Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. Photo attribution: Flickr user zedzap.

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Meeting Online Conference Government 63