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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers. I’ve written about this in my books; here’s a short critique of Open Space.

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MAY 20, 2019

Just as good stories have a story arc , coherent events have a conference arc. In addition, every event participant creates their own story at an event, just as each reader or viewer individually absorbs and experiences a book or movie story. Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

You can find more information and insights on these models in Jerry Weinberg ‘s excellent book: Becoming a Change Artist. Traditional conference designs also adopt this model. Steven Smith supplies a longer summary , and Jerry’s and Virginia’s books go into more detail.]. The Diffusion model of change.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. Actually I don’t need to do that since Donald Bligh listed them all in his classic book What’s The Use Of Lectures? Image attribution: Marisha Aziz Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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AUGUST 29, 2016

The first time I met him—at the premier EventCamp in 2010 —he immediately purchased my just-published book, sight unseen. The cover proclaims “What’s Next in Event Design?” 3 — Conferences That Work. Instead, let’s broaden our conceptions of what meeting design is. 2 — Elementary Meetings.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! Here’s another example from a software testing peer conference, TestBash Brighton 2018. The conference designers invented a way to create “highly engaging, interactive and fun” poster sessions. The Unexpo Experiment.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems appeared first on Conferences That Work. Complex problems.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

” —Jeff Hurt, We Must Stop Promoting Conference Fast-Track, Artificial, Butt-In-Seat, Surface Learning. As explained in my books , we know that the active learning that occurs through attendee discovery is indeed more effective than the learning that may result from sharing information with passive listeners.

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