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Good meeting design is cheaper than special effects

Conferences that Work

Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meeting design. “There’s no budget” I’ve noticed over the years that every meeting has a budget for F&B. There’s often a budget for a dramatic big-name speaker or two. Seth Godin makes an analogous point in this post….

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

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!

Conferences that Work

The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings. Our trade magazines mainly report on big events, the ones with big-name speakers and eye candy razzle-dazzle. For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. So don’t try to make the meeting bigger. What to do?

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Lessons from Anguilla: What meeting designers can learn from religious services

Conferences that Work

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. No related posts.

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Don’t keep me a secret!

Conferences that Work

” “Substance, not celebrity… celebrity speakers will not boost registrations. So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who have purchased my books or the hundreds of clients who have benefited from my meeting design and facilitation services, please don’t keep me a secret! © Freeman 2024.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE Blog

I want to re-share this article that I wrote back in 2019 and was initially published on VDVO website , because the principles of event design remain the same, the human is in the centre of every experience that we want to design for our events and technology technology should enhance this experience, and not replace it.

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

Endless Events

But with recent trends focusing more towards personalization and customization, meetings are definitely getting a big tech upgrade this year. One thing did catch our eye from the article though: smart drugs. Read about the rest via the article up top. Catch more trends through the article we linked above.

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