Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2023

Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012. Gen Z and Live Events: How To Engage the New Workforce As you can see, Gen Z has some critical differences that affect how they interact with each other, marketing messages, and businesses. Ideally, plan a hybrid event that allows for either in-person connection or remote attendance.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Merely knowing what attendee churn is and why it happens isn’t enough. You need to be able to stop it from killing your event’s future. As we know, attendee churn is your event’s failure to retain guests year over year. Stop Attendee Churn from Happening in the First Place.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Such a transformation is the essential work needed to build human community around the event, which becomes something special, standing out like a beacon from the humdrum conferences routinely inflicted on attendees. The meeting feels different, is different, because it allows participants to be truly heard and seen.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Attendees have something in common: a profession, a passion, a shared experience together. Learning is restricted to broadcast-style lectures , Q&A is often more about status than learning, and attendees have little if any input into the topics and issues discussed. But you can create an environment where they choose to.”

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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.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis , I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conference designs that prioritize participants.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

I’ll bet that even today, if you asked attendees what they remembered about the event, most would immediately recall the There Was No Coffee moment. We do not want events to be poorly planned and/or executed, because the inevitable result will be unhappy attendees and chaos of one kind or another.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? As I’ve explained elsewhere , good covenants publicly clarify the freedoms that attendees have at an event, like the freedoms to speak one’s mind , ask questions , and share feelings. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. to say and do.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This seems to be the norm, because when you talk to attendees you find they set a low bar for satisfaction, e.g. “I t’s OK if I learn one new thing a day, oh, and if I make a useful connection or two that would be great! I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. Most of them are dull and largely irrelevant.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Attendees learn more when presenters use active learning modalities. And we now know that the popularity of fluent lectures, as measured by session evaluations, is based on an incorrect belief by attendees that they are learning more than they actually do. Most meeting presenters still lecture.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 20, 2016

If we think of an event as the thing that happened between the moments when the first attendee arrived and the last person left, we are ignoring the changes in the knowledge, viewpoints, and connections, and the subsequent outcomes that the event created.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 21, 2023

Seth Godin makes the same point when talking about the future of education and what we can do about it in his 2012 TEDxYouth@BFS talk. Design sessions where the audience can’t stop talking about what they did. Give attendees experiences, not things. Watch this 30-second clip. Give people permission to connect.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective to these blog posts as an experience meeting planner and blogger in the industry. The post 5 Killer Ways to Keep First-Time Guests From Coming Back appeared first on Experient: Event Industry Blog.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

33% sponsored an email blast to the attendee list. 31% bought an ad that went on the event or organization’s website. One of the challenges with multiple logos on printed signage or a banner is attendees consider it to be ‘logo soup.’. Give attendees a deal on your next event. 32% underwrote printed signage.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

They are known for planning epic events, creating amazing exhibits and organize engaging trade shows. Founded in San Diego in 1978, 360 Destination Group specializes in event design, development, and execution. Banzai provides audience generation solutions for field and event marketing teams from startups to the Fortune 500.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bespoke Audio Visual Toronto, ON Bespoke AV is a full-service live events technology company, specializing in virtual event production and on-site live events. Our experiential event design and strategy are built on Carson’s background in industrial psychology and anthropology. LAI Live Washington, D.C.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2025

Gen X (born between 1981 and 1996) and Z (born between 1996 and 2012) are already filling our ballrooms with Gen Alpha not far behind. How can we make the next generation of attendees feel comfortable, not to mention the entry of young workers helping us create meeting magic? They demand straight talk from friends and brands. . #4

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