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Conferences that Work
MAY 13, 2024
If you’d told me back in 2009 that by 2024 I’d have written over a thousand blog posts for this website, I’d have told you you were crazy. (I’ve I’ve published 827; the rest are drafts, but still.) I’d have thought I would have run out of ideas years ago. Yes, I do have new ideas regularly!
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. Write a book? So here’s my story.
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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. I don’t think so.
Conferences that Work
MAY 20, 2024
Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. I ran them in my spare time for thirteen years before writing my first book. The result was that I wrote two supplements to the book that I published in 2013 and 2015. Participants said, “Why don’t you do that this way?”
Conferences that Work
JUNE 3, 2019
At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)
Conferences that Work
MAY 22, 2023
Check to see if your school already makes books available via VitalSource Campus Retailers. It is critical to understand how to design conferences and events effectively. Now, you and your students can easily access my books from anywhere in the world, at any time, both online and offline.
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Ten years ago today, I started this website and published my first book: Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. (A I’m proud to have written three books ( the latest was published this week) and over six hundred blog posts in the last ten years. A decade later it’s still selling.).
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