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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!
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. Write a book? So here’s my story.
” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conferencedesigns that prioritize participants. ” —Jeff Jarvis In the same way, the processes of participant-driven conferences are open. Screw your users, screw yourself.”
Forged ahead and wrote what eventually became a series of three books on conferencedesign. Consequently became a valued resource on meetingdesign and facilitation for thousands of people and organizations. Thanks to my mentors, I: Set my professional fees at the right level when I began consulting in 1982.
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 conferencedesign, no matter how good it is, suffers. I’ve written about this in my books; here’s a short critique of Open Space.
For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). Since 2016, I’ve been participating in the annual, invitation-only MeetingDesign Practicum conferences that have been held all over Europe. Complex problems. Here are some examples.
The first time I met him—at the premier EventCamp in 2010 —he immediately purchased my just-published book, sight unseen. Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!) 2 — Elementary Meetings. 3 — Conferences That Work. 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. Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?!
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