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.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. Include lots of communal activities.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.”

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 12, 2024

Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry. 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.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

. — Choose Chicago (@ChooseChicago) December 28, 2014. casesmc pic.twitter.com/o3A6ZcPJ7E — Christine Tempesta (@ctempesta) November 7, 2014. Posts can range from takeaways from keynotes, photos of the event, or a heads up to your location in order to meet other event attendees. BizBash Live (@BizBashLive) October 28, 2014.

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