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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

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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. Special events involve a mixture of entertainment, celebration, and raising money.

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Go Beyond Event Sponsorship Packages: Forge Long-Term Event Partnerships

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These days, sponsorships go beyond companies getting a logo and mention in your event. Corporations are now looking for complete, year-round involvement that would take the concept of event sponsorship to new levels. This, of course, involves a lot of communication and planning. Are you struggling with event marketing?

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Hub and spoke meetings

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If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings. As you might expect, this delay led to a number of communication issues between the hub and pods. Such delays should be taken into account when designing hub and spoke events.

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Facilitating an online participation-rich workshop in Gatherly

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This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation. I’ve shared the why? and the details of how I typically run this format here.

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Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence?

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This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ). We communicated to each other by voice , and used our vision to concentrate on clues. In 2016, I experienced my first escape room. Two teams competed to escape two identical rooms. Both teams included people I hardly knew.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

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For an unconference to be successful, attendees need pre-event preparation. Conveners of well-designed unconferences explain, in general terms via pre-event communications what the unconference will be like and how to prepare for it. To conclude When designed and executed well, unconferences tend to endure.

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Designing an online memorial service

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One thing I’ve found invaluable in running large online meetings is a private channel for the event staff to communicate beforehand and in real-time during the event. Meeting planners have employed wireless technology solutions to do this for decades.) I like to use a private Slack channel for this.

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