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I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conferencedesigned by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meetingdesigner way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meetingdesign!
The function of such meetings is primarily top-down : effectively communicate management objectives, answer questions, and get employee buy-in. As a result, many conferenceattendees have not encountered these designs before and have not experienced how effective they can be in creating valuable connections and learning with their peers.
.” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conferencedesigns that prioritize participants. My books and writing share these processes freely, allowing conference organizers to adapt them to their needs.
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.
Traditional conferences focus on a hodgepodge of pre-determined sessions punctuated with socials, surrounded by short welcomes and closings. Such conferencedesigns treat openings and closings as perfunctory traditions, perhaps pumped up with a keynote or two, rather than key components of the conferencedesign.
Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meetingdesign and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meetingdesign and facilitation. Attendees loved my events! Nothing worked.
Prolonging the misconception, as BizBash implicitly does, that meetingdesign is principally about sensory design is slowing the adoption of fundamental and innovative process design improvements that can significantly improve our meetings. Instead, let’s broaden our conceptions of what meetingdesign is.
After I talked about my meetingdesign work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. “Over dinner, I realized I was not the only one joining this conference for the first time.
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