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APRIL 22, 2019

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

April 2018, Meetings and Conventions Magazine Do you incorporate participatory sessions into your events? I’ve been designing and facilitating workshop-style, participatory sessions since 1992, and participants love them ! Smart conference producers incorporate participatory sessions into their events.

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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 five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Who owns an event? The usual answer to this question is “the event’s sponsors”, i.e. the people and organizations that decide to hold the event and contribute the resources needed for the event to occur. Increasingly we are moving to event models that make participants generators of event value.

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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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JUNE 27, 2016

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). After a three-day introductory workshop at BATS, I attended two four-day Applied Improvisation Network World Conferences (San Francisco 2012 and Montreal 2015). How I got there. We’ll see.

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JULY 9, 2018

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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MARCH 13, 2017

They are also far more likely to make valuable connections with their peers during the event. Every time I find myself wishing for an external event, I realize that I’m way better off focusing on something I can control instead. Ask a hard question every time we go to a meeting….

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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. Design in flexibility. Jeff Jarvis Similarly, peer conference designs are transparent. Give them power. A good platform is transparent.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Related posts: Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Sue, 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. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Related posts: Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

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. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. If you had told me then that the.

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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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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

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JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer.

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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.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the most effective ways to ensure the long-term health of your event is to convert first-time guests into loyal, life-long fans. But you can’t do that until you see the event experience through their perspective. Create an exclusive networking event for them and their mentors before the conference begins. . #3.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why I love conference facilitation and design appeared first on Conferences That Work. Related posts: 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.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

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. Sources for additional information. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

Looking for an event or experiential marketing agency in 2024? Check out this comprehensive list of the best event agencies in the United States and Canada. of event organizers believe that events are the most critical marketing channel for achieving business goals, and 75.9% Want to see your event agency in this list?

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Related posts: Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Uncovering and working on group outcomes, however, is one of the best ways to build community at a conference, which increases the likelihood that participants will see the conference as professionally valuable and makes it more likely that they will attend future events. I’m so glad you asked!

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

If you think of a meeting primarily as a way of transferring content , then online meetings seem attractive, inexpensive alternatives to face-to-face events. Such meetings require little commitment, so it is harder to successfully engage participants when the cost of leaving is so low.

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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. Instead, design meetings to connect the dots Here are five suggestions: Build your event around conversation rather than content. Watch this 30-second clip. Ask the right questions.

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MARCH 26, 2018

It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. Not only is it important to understand what churn is, but you also need to evaluate your event to see why it’s happening. Drill down on your niche.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Do you need to find new sources of income for your events? 31% bought an ad that went on the event or organization’s website. Give attendees a deal on your next event. One of the biggest obstacles in selling an event into the future is the possibility the attendee can’t make it. 35% purchased/boosted a social media ad.

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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. We asked Claire Lester, senior design strategist with Maritz Design Studio , for tips that will benefit everyone in the crowd. The Gen Z-Friendly Event Solution So how does this relate to events?

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