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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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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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A plea to journalists, interviewers, and podcasters

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Here’s a simple plea to journalists, interviewers, and podcasters: After you interview me, please let me know when your article or interview will be published! This blog is one of the most popular resources on meeting design, so I frequently receive interview requests. This delay is unnecessary and a missed opportunity.

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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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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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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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Freeman’s Trends Report Q4 2024 is a must-read

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“Although most organizers report that they consider market trends and audience needs when developing their most important events, only 27% of organizers report that dramatic audience-centric changes occur from one event to the next.” Sadly, three-quarters of you are not.

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