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Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
That is why [it] was wrong for Twitter to put a sponsor ahead of users. That’s why newspapers built church/state walls to try to protect their integrity against accusations of sponsor influence. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conference designs that prioritize participants.
Conferences that Work
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote a long book about this. It’s why businesses sponsor meetings. It’s why we judge meeting experiences largely based on how they were perceived at their peak and at their end. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality.
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Conferences that Work
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Increasing attendee satisfaction increases the effectiveness of the event for all stakeholders: attendees, sponsors, and event owners. Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings. I make conferences better by dramatically increasing attendee satisfaction.
Conferences that Work
APRIL 9, 2018
I’ve lost count of the conference session proposals I’ve made to meeting industry associations that have wound through multiple months-long steps only to be rejected at the last possible moment with no explanation and a boilerplate request to submit more next year. But their inclusion looks good on the promotional materials.
The MICE Blog
MARCH 11, 2021
A common example is booking websites. The gamification strategies on these websites endeavour to make us book as soon as possible. It’s not about fun but to make us book.’. We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. And we really wanted to bring that online.
Social Tables
DECEMBER 27, 2018
Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. The unprecedented rise in demand for meetings and events will continue this year, with CWT Meetings & Travel predicting a robust 5-10% growth in demand. Industry Performance Trends.
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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