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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!
The function of such meetings is primarily top-down : effectively communicate management objectives, answer questions, and get employee buy-in. When meeting planners add participant-driven sessions as a track to an existing schedule of traditional presentations, few attendees will pick the unfamiliar. I thought you’d never ask.
Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis , I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. ” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. A good platform is transparent.
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. Found the courage to share my weekly musings on a wide variety of topics publicly via my blog.
Re-Think MS, a multi-hub, one-day medical conferenceorganized by AIM Group International, was broadcast from a main studio to 13 sites across Italy. Courtesy of AIM Group International). Another multi-hub AIM event connected as many as 40 venues, she told Convene. Barbara Sambugaro. Adrian Segar. Pod Perspective.
Venue room capacity charts don’t include these designs. The result is that novice-organized unconferences rarely have the venue space they need to work well. The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. But it is far from the only format that organizers can and should use.
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. His enthusiasm for my conferencedesign work was a huge boost.
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