Conferences that Work

MARCH 26, 2018

One of the most satisfying outcomes of the peer conferences I design and facilitate is how they bring people together who would never otherwise have met — and in doing so change the world. This is obviously important, but why do world-changing connections seldom occur at conventional conferences ?

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 15, 2023

Beyond checking for availability well before your event, we have 10 additional tips for helping you choose the perfect conference venue. Get more tips for running a sustainable conference with “ The Ultimate Sustainable Event Planning Checklist.” Choosing a venue that suits your specific conference needs is important.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 26, 2023

A June 2023 conference gave me a perfect opportunity to use one of my facilitation tools: Reminders, Sparks, Questions, Puzzles (RSQP). My 2014 post on RSQP gives a clear example of how it works (and my book Event Crowdsourcing includes full details) so I won’t repeat myself here. Two significant differences 1.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 7, 2022

The number of people killed in mass shootings has risen from 272 in 2014 to 692 in 2021. These include: Event type: Low energy events like business conferences or seminars aren’t likely to create risk. Gun violence in the United States is, unfortunately, a reality every event planner must confront.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The post ITB 2014 kicks off in Singapore appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. At the opening press conference, Dr Christian Goke, CEO of Messe Berlin, the organiser of ITB Asia, said; “This year’s ITB is more international than last year and has a better buyer-to-seller ration than ever before.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 12, 2024

I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services. Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry.

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MPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

MPI's European Meetings & Events Conference Returns to Türkiye for the First Time Since 2014

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From my viewpoint, the platform’s popularity and usefulness reached a peak between 2014 – 2017. While my followers on Twitter have been stagnant since 2014, new people continue to find my content on Mastodon and follow me. Since then, Twitter began a slow decline. See the graph of my monthly website pageviews below.)

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 9, 2024

In 2014, she conducted a research study on panels, and now, a decade later, she is launching a new survey about the state of panel discussions at meetings, conferences, and conventions, in partnership with corporate event company Unbridled. In 2014, 63 percent of survey respondents thought panels were merely okay or worse.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

The PCMA Convening Leaders conference this January offered something no other annual mega-gathering of the association has: virtual interpreters. Interprefy has essentially been a hybrid events service since the company’s genesis in 2014, long before the pandemic turned the industry upside down.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 16, 2023

He joined Will Rogers Memorial Center in 2014 as an entry-level service attendant. Elvira Velez and Rob DeCanter Elvira Velez (left) and Rob DeCanter (right) Velez is director of catering and conference services and DeCanter is senior director of group sales for Fairmont Dallas. Pete Beach, Florida.

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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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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Organized by the Bureau of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and executed by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the MEET TAIWAN program is a long-term initiative aimed at promoting Taiwan’s MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions) industry.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Well, it’s not. Here are (drum roll!)

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DCI

MARCH 22, 2023

Since 2016, DCI’s annual Talent Wars research has become a sought-after study for organizations tasked with marketing their community to attract new residents and is the foundation of many campaigns.  Patience brings almost nine years of place-marketing experience to this new role.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 11, 2024

Although Twitter started showing the occasional “Promoted Tweet” in 2010, it wasn’t until around 2014 that ads became a regular feature of a user’s timeline. How advertising on eXTwitter became so bad A quick history. Twitter didn’t even show ads to people who weren’t signed in until December 2015.)

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That is really what changed it for me in 2014” “In 2014, I hit rock bottom and ended up in the emergency room the night before”, she continues. “At that time, our biggest conference client, the night before that conference, I ended up in the hospital.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Squaring the circle: creating room sets for connection appeared first on Conferences That Work. The notes at the.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2016

I guarantee you will learn many new great ideas about conference panels from this Blab of my Thursday chat with the wonderful Kristin Arnold. With many thanks to Kristin and our viewers (especially Kiki L’Italien who contributed mightily) I now offer you the AMA About Conference Panels annotated time-line. 1:30] Using sli.do

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 10, 2023

Jason Humphrey ASM Global has appointed Jason Humphrey as general manager of Ithaca Downtown Conference Center. In his new role, Humphrey will oversee every aspect of venue management and customer experience, as well as work closely with the Downtown Ithaca Local Development Corporation that owns the Ithaca Downtown Conference Center.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 14, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Handling a meeting question that isn’t appeared first on Conferences That Work. Sue, Conferences That Work goes to Japan! The first Conferences That Work peer conference held in Japan begins today!

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A number of Velvet Chainsaw’s consulting clients have made social responsibility a cornerstone of their conference strategy — with the desire “to leave the host city better because we were there.” When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ? I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. I asked people, “If this conference could be amazing for you, what would it be about?”

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Training associations how to create powerful and effective participant-driven and participation-rich conferences is one of the most rewarding aspects of my work: I love facilitating the learning that occurs, and the organization is then equipped with the process tools needed to transform their events.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 4, 2023

The Prague Convention Bureau helps organizers from all over the world with the organization of congresses and conferences. During its existence, it has gained almost a thousand congresses and conferences in the hundred-spired city of Prague, attended by more than 410,000 delegates.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

11, Seattle, Washington, will celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day — the Seattle City Council voted to rename Columbus Day in honor of Indigenous people in 2014, and the state of Washington voted to do the same in 2020. (David Newman photo). On Monday, Oct.

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Stova

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the 2014 event, Stova provided a comprehensive iPad app for the conference, which was held in Berlin. The conference that year brought together 300+ attendees in a highly interactive setting, where the event app played a strategic role. Personal notes were delivered by email to each attendee at the end of the conference.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 23, 2023

” — Barbara Kingsolver , The Moral Universe: Barbara Kingsolver On Writing, Politics, And Human Nature, interview by Jeanne Supin, March 2014 This is the same tension that plays out between association staff and membership wants and needs. But our nature is still pulling us back.”

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Eventtia

JUNE 30, 2022

MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) and Tourism industry professionals gathered for the 9th time at ACE of MICE Exhibition on 25-27 May 2022. Exhibition by Turkish Airlines has been organized since 2014. Let us give you a small context of what this event is about and who the organizers are. ACE of M.I.C.E.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 16, 2019

“I was at a conference and I was very excited to be there because I wanted to connect with new people”, Ashlee recalls. But I left that conference with not really making any new connections. The evening of that conference I was speaking to my mom about that experience. How do you get an app developed?

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan! ” and “ who?

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 10, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Two free easy ways to create graphics for blog posts and presentations appeared first on Conferences That Work. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. If these sound like your needs too, read on!

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 4, 2023

The Prague Convention Bureau helps organizers from all over the world with the organization of congresses and conferences. During its existence, it has gained almost a thousand congresses and conferences in the hundred-spired city of Prague, attended by more than 410,000 delegates.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 27, 2018

This happens all the time As a facilitator of conferences and meetings, I meet and talk with hundreds of people every year. ” Memory flooded back, and I realized that I’d met Lisa on Anguilla 18 months ago when she and the familiar man, whose name I now remembered as Willy, had visited the island. I felt a little embarrassed.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 22, 2016

S**t FacilitatorsSay (@ShitFacilitator) February 12, 2014. S**t FacilitatorsSay (@ShitFacilitator) February 12, 2014. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. . — S**t FacilitatorsSay (@ShitFacilitator) May 7, 2016. Rearrange 10 tables and 60 chairs from boardroom style to horseshoe b4 participants arrive.

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Endless Events

JULY 5, 2018

That’s why we’re going to jump in and explore the potential virtual participation has for the event industry, from small conferences through to live sporting events. Much like with virtual speakers, creating a conference that allows participants to attend virtually means attendees don’t have the time and expense of travelling either.

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Eventtia

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Both platforms offer tailored solutions for organizing events such as conferences, trade shows, training sessions, and more across these sectors. It provides tailored solutions for events like conferences, trade shows, and training workshops across these sectors. Main Features: What Are the Main Features Provided by Hopin?

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