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Which meeting design books should I buy?

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Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).

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Try New Event Ideas For 2018: Create a Roadshow, Book Underrated Venues, Create a Unique Event Experience

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PS: Create an engaging event this year by learning how to increase your audience engagement with our free webinar. Get Ready for the Top Meeting Trends in 2018. Meetings have always been more intimate affairs compared to events. One thing did catch our eye from the article though: smart drugs.

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Community versus audience in journalism and meetings

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Many meetings still focus on creating audiences rather than community. And not just at meetings. Here’s how Damon Kiesow , Knight Chair for Digital Editing and Producing at the Missouri School of Journalism , compares the concepts of community versus audience from a journalistic perspective. Audience scales.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

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Because they make assumptions that what has to happen is what happened at just about every meeting their authors ever attended. They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. They assume that the core purpose of a meeting session is to transmit content to an audience.

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

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You can share some good information in a ten-minute talk, even if most of the audience will have forgotten it a month later. So when should you use the Conferences That Work design? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. I thought you’d never ask. Image attribution: Flickr user apionid.

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Make the meeting bigger!

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The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings. Pandemic-induced smaller audiences engender hand-wringing. For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. ” But if we concentrate on increasing attendance, we overlook getting the meeting design right. What to do?

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It’s not an entrance it’s a layer

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And it made me think about meeting design. Such free rehearsals give the casual audience an opportunity to hear world-class musicians play and learn together. And, me being me, I thought about what Marcy had just said in the context of meeting design. And meetings are no exception. The rehearsal.

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