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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. Well, it’s not.

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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. Pinterest has just launched new tools that allow professionals to plan events on the platform. Making Event Networking Fun. For example, you can form an online community about your event.

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Community versus audience in journalism and meetings

Conferences that Work

When the attendees are the owners, meeting designs that build and support community are the obvious way to go. Such owners, whether they be individuals or for-profit or non-profit entities, rarely have the same objectives for the event as the attendees. But, all too often, attendees are not the conference owners.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

1—Unconferences that aren’t According to Wikipedia, unconferences are participant-driven meetings where the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. They use “unconference” as a marketing buzzword to make their event sound cooler. Here are my six reasons.

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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.

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3 Ways to Engage Your Audience at Your Event

Social Tables

But don’t let the social media fun grind to a halt when the event kicks off. There are a myriad of opportunities where you can leverage social during and after your event. Before an event, you can promote the use of the event hashtag by incorporating it into your tweets. Radde, Ph.D.

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Elevating Virtual Events: Transforming In-Person Meetings to Digital

Brightspot Incentive Events

To execute a successful virtual event, our team was tasked with developing a strategy that enhanced meeting design, optimized the attendee’s experience, and increased attendee engagement. Virtual Event Platform and AV Partner. Another Successful Virtual Meeting.