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5 Ways to Build Community Loyalty

Smart Meetings

For example, if they value the rising focus on sustainability, make sure your event incorporates sustainable practices and promotes/communicates the efforts you’re taking to drive change. Spatial Design for the Subconscious Mind Cookie-cutter conference designs can be mundane and predictable to an attendee.

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

Conferences that Work

Management have desired outcomes for the meeting: e.g. developing new products and services, communicating changes in company strategic goals, training and incentivizing sales teams, implementing successful product launches, etc. I’ve run the core Conferences That Work design in a day numerous times, and it’s always a rush.

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

Conferences That Work. Conferences That Work is the creation of conference design and facilitation legend Adrian Segar. His blog is a deep-dive into conference engagement and the fundamentals of successful networking like comfort, interaction and the exchange of ideas.

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

Conferences that Work

The four-minute time limitation nudges each presenter to focus on the core aspects of what they want to share and how to communicate them as effectively as possible in the time available. Image attribution: Marisha Aziz Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Prescribing a Hub-and-Spoke Approach

Convene by PCMA

Sambugaro said that “hostesses” took questions from participants at each of the locations and communicated them to the broadcasting venue to be addressed by the experts. The joint event was simulcast in the morning from Rome and projected on big screens at the 13 hotels hosting the event throughout Italy. Adrian Segar. Pod Perspective.

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Google Audio Overview tool in NotebookLM generates bogus output

Conferences that Work

As you’d expect from LLMs these days, NotebookLM provided a good written summary of the post: “The sources compare the responsibilities of news organizations to the responsibilities of conferences, arguing that both should prioritize their users and be transparent, open, and reliable. ” So far, so good.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

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 conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers. One way to introduce conference newbies to a recurring unconference is to use a buddy system.