Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. Online pods.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A. Meetings will never be the same.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 19, 2024

Forged ahead and wrote what eventually became a series of three books on conference design. Consequently became a valued resource on meeting design and facilitation for thousands of people and organizations. Mentorship and the mentee Mentorship is often depicted as a formal process with a mentor regularly meeting with a mentee.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings. From small, high-level, high-stakes get-togethers to association regional and national meetings of every size. In-person, online, and hybrid. You name it, I’ve probably done it. What do my clients think?

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics. ChatGPT can be a useful tool. I don’t think so.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

How to maximize the benefits of meetings and sessions that include both suppliers and practitioners. Most meetings simply don’t address the conflicting wants and needs described above. First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. That’s a shame.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components. 15:00 Why we need to have participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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