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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

Conferences that Work

I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Here are (drum roll!)

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Make Event Networking Better For Your Attendees

Endless Events

Facebook has long been known as a major platform for planning and promoting events, but a new challenger now wants in on the action. In the pipeline are more features that allow event marketers to place highly visible ads in users’ search feeds, and to set a “promoted video” that gets more screen real estate than other elements.

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Community versus audience in journalism and meetings

Conferences that Work

Community versus audience I began my first book with the research finding (and common observation) that people go to conferences to network and learn. Creating community at conferences around participant-driven content , therefore, creates a far more effective learning and connection-rich environment.

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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

LinkedIn’s growth spurt is evident in the business events industry as well: When we asked meeting organizers what new social media channels they were using to promote events in Convene ’s 2023 Meetings Market Survey , the leading response — chosen by three out of five respondents — was LinkedIn. It’s part of the game.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. He thought conferences would eventually adopt unconference models. The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. But their inclusion looks good on the promotional materials. Our industry conferences are the obvious places to provide this education.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

Conferences that Work

Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. “ Including highly paid keynote speakers at meetings is a meeting industry fixation.