Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Well, it’s not.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings? An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Adrian Segar: I’m in the audience. Martin, welcome!

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We talk about all kinds of things, with a focus on my work and thinking about participant-driven and participation-rich meetings and event design. 07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 16:30 Online meetings benefit from these designs too.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2020

Meeting Design Toolbox for Meeting Architects. How To Engage Your Audience – #EventIcons Episode 87. Audience Engagement 101: Guide to Planning Relevant Corporate Events. Dan Ram ( @iamdanram ). Check out the epic resources from today’s episode about MCs for events: Cultivating Engagement At Events.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Whether your event has 50 or 5,000 attendees, we have three solid ways to engage your audience to ensure your guests have an unforgettable experience. Posts can range from takeaways from keynotes, photos of the event, or a heads up to your location in order to meet other event attendees. Room Design. Social Media. Networking.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 25, 2021

How can we design the optimum balance between control versus freedom at meetings? Note that I’m not suggesting meeting professionals give up any attempt to control what happens at their events. It’s when we try to tightly control every aspect of our meeting that our events suffer. The myth of control.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This blog is one of the most popular resources on meeting design, so I frequently receive interview requests. Meeting industry publications reach out after reading my posts or comments. Journalists often seek my insights on current issues, quoting me in their articles. Podcasters are always on the lookout for interesting guests.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’ve not always agreed with Freeman’s Reports , but, if you’re in the meeting industry, Freeman’s Trends Report Q4 2024 is a must-read. Informal meetings with SMEs are rated important by 24% of organizers , but 48% of attendees find them crucial. The language of connection : The words we use for meetings matter.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 16, 2021

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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MeetingsNet

MAY 29, 2019

We're all quite familiar with the Q&A portion of a meeting session: The final few minutes where the audience has its chance to drill down a bit with the presenter. This means that, at best, three to five percent of the audience becomes actively engaged in that session. What about all the other participants? What Is C&I?

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LinkedIn’s growth spurt is evident in the business events industry as well: When we asked meeting organizers what new social media channels they were using to promote events in Convene ’s 2023 Meetings Market Survey , the leading response — chosen by three out of five respondents — was LinkedIn.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2021

For the first fully hybrid National Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors meeting on May 14, the leadership met together in Chicago, while around 800 directors were remote. And that means that a lot of voting takes place — complicated enough to handle at an in-person meeting and challenging for an online meeting.

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Stova

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Hybrids will likely see widespread adoption as F2F meetings reemerge from the pandemic for a number of reasons: Some attendees may not wish to travel to the event for fear of contagion or other health and safety concerns. There will likely be reduced travel funds available for event attendance due to economic downturns.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 18, 2021

Transforming an In-Person Sales Kickoff into a Virtual Meeting. Face-to-face events, conferences, and meetings were postponed or cancelled for the near future. It took time and resources to complete demos with the top platforms to learn the best tools for audience engagement and user experience. Virtual Conference Production.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2019

Deepen engagement and increase retention at your meetings by embracing three fundamental shifts in the attendee experience. This fundamental shift changes the way we think about everything from our meeting spaces to our speaker content. Moving from static to active meetings. Refocusing from the stage to the audience.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 28, 2021

Here’s my Powerful Panels interview with good friend and meeting panel doyen Kristin Arnold. During our 25 minutes together, we discussed various panel formats, their value, and how to structure and design powerful panel discussions into the larger context of meetings, conferences, and events. 0:00 Introduction.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern event design. Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern event design. Here’s how the meetings industry is changing the game. With that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design 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 meeting design and facilitation. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. ” Jerry was right.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 21, 2022

A company has launched to make it easier to find one no matter where you’re holding your meeting. Emcee and meeting designer Samme Allen says she founded the company in response to a growing need for experienced emcees, hosts, and moderators who “can be delivered cost effectively, flexibly, and in the most sustainable way.”.

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Gavel International

AUGUST 26, 2024

Learning more about your target audience. Creating brand awareness for your target audience. You can also consider an in-person strategic meeting designed to hear input from key department leaders. It can also affect how your target audience views your organization.

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Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

Help your audience mingle by guiding them, maybe through group activities. PS: If you need more event networking and audience engagement tips, why not. While both these strategies take more work, increasing your audience turnout would be a piece of cake. Up Your Learning and Event Networking Experience at Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 14, 2022

Meetings of every kind offer these opportunities. Personal meetings like these, whether brief or extended, between good friends or strangers, are fundamental. Even post-presentation Q&As rarely evolve into a conversation, which is always between the presenter and a succession of audience members.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. Can we really cure audience inattention with cognitive enhancing drugs? Click To Tweet.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels.

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Endless Events

JUNE 21, 2019

To kick things off, Melissa begins by giving us some interesting facts: “With meeting planners, it’s predominantly… there are a lot more women than men in the industry. For an interesting chat about mentorship and sexual harassment, we welcomed Rhonda Brewer from BCD Meetings & Events.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

Embracing the Weirdness of Meetings. The word “meeting” carries a connotation of being serious, and mostly boring to be honest. Meetings may cover the simplest of topics, but mixing things up to break the mold can go a long way. Meetings may cover the simplest of topics, but mixing things up to break the mold can go a long way.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We’re tapping the talent of PCMA’s staff so they can share the design thinking and process behind the innovative experiences they create for PCMA events. Most meeting designers know that beginnings and endings matter, but struggle to craft meaningful experiences that resonate with attendees.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 16, 2020

Marina Bay Sands has launched a state-of-the-art hybrid event broadcast studio at Sands Expo and Convention Centre in a first for the industry, as the award-winning venue paves the way to redefine the future of meetings. Collaboration with PCMA.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Under pandemic conditions, former alumni, faculty, staff, and other friends of the institution cannot even meet in person to grieve. So I decided to design and run an online memorial service. But I reluctantly felt it necessary to focus on the majority of the target audience. A Zoom meeting recorder.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

They chose the gaming environment to first create interaction with their core audience (students) and immerse future and current students in campus life and for them to engage with each other. We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. The first speaker, Farshida Zafar, L.L.M.,

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Anyone speaking on stage will be heard by everyone in the room, and presenters can hear audience response at a reduced level, rather like as if they were speaking at a live event. However, the room size limit to the number of people who can listen to folks on stage currently limits Rally to a presentation tool for small audiences.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 24, 2017

How are you going to get your audience tuned in and engaged? The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. So you’re holding a conference.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. Stay on time! It seems obvious to do this. You guessed it.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 15, 2019

And when I started convening and speaking at conferences I was scared of being “on stage”, even in front of small audiences. Twenty-five years ago I was a college professor who spent hours preparing classes, fearful that students would ask me a question I couldn’t answer. No related posts.

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