Endless Events

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Because after months of repetitive webinars and dull sessions, attendees will increasingly expect more. And the price for not delivering will be having a significant portion of your audience walk out on your event. But how do partners like Endless Events and Touchcast come in? Introducing, Touchcast! ”, Edo recalls.

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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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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I started using Zoom in 2012, but since the pandemic began I’ve facilitated more Zoom meetings than the last seven years. And I’ve become intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating the peer processes developed for successful face-to-face meetings into online events. You have (at least) three options at this point.

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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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Conference Attendee Networking Production 84

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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Meeting Conference Education Booking 79

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How do we build conference programs that attendees actually want and need? Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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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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Meeting Online Education Government 63

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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Publishing Speakers Education Booking 85

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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Conference Education Audience Attendee 71

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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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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Sponsors Events Education Conference 74

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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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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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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