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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

So, our blog provides comprehensive and personality-packed articles with the latest tips, tricks, and trends for event planners to create more epic events with a focus on technical production. . Speaking of opinion, here’s a great article on sustainably supporting local communities , while creating authentic experiences for event goers.

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

Conferences that Work

As a result, many conference attendees have not encountered these designs before and have not experienced how effective they can be in creating valuable connections and learning with their peers. I’ve run the core Conferences That Work design in a day numerous times, and it’s always a rush.

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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How the Responsibilities of Conferences Mirror Those of Media Platforms

Conferences that Work

.” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conference designs that prioritize participants. ” —Chapter 5, Conferences That Work All the principles and tools I’ve developed stem from this goal.

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Google Audio Overview tool in NotebookLM generates bogus output

Conferences that Work

As you’d expect from LLMs these days, NotebookLM provided a good written summary of the post: “The sources compare the responsibilities of news organizations to the responsibilities of conferences, arguing that both should prioritize their users and be transparent, open, and reliable. This article makes a killer case.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

I still believe that these events, when well-designed and facilitated, offer the best attendee experience for the majority of conferences that are held today. 2—Poor unconference design Half a century ago, as a lowly graduate student, I attended tons of traditional academic conferences. Here are my six reasons.

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The Conference Arc — the key components of every successful participation-rich conference

Conferences that Work

Traditional conferences focus on a hodgepodge of pre-determined sessions punctuated with socials, surrounded by short welcomes and closings. Such conference designs treat openings and closings as perfunctory traditions, perhaps pumped up with a keynote or two, rather than key components of the conference design.