Eventtia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

On Wednesday, October 21st Spitche, MeltinLab, and Eventtia will be joining forces to host Get Together , a summit for marketers seeking new ways to connect, build communities, and create powerful experiences, all online.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

Both are unique, as far as I know, in that the in-person and online participants are the same people ! The first novel hybrid meeting format was invented by Joel Backon back in 2010. The second is a design I’ll be using in a conference I’ve designed and will be facilitating in June 2022. The online portion.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. One bright spot has been the normalization of online meetings for routine connection and collaboration. We have also seen the emergence of new forms of online events, supported by solid business models. So don’t try to make the meeting bigger.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A. Meetings will never be the same.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. Online pods.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

Use the right online tools that will get the most bang out of your event bucks. Online Tools to Make Registration a Breeze. Online Tools to Make Registration a Breeze. Today there are multiple options for attendees to check in to events, whether offline or online. Manage event contractors the right way.

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2019

“If you store any data online you can also do something called addressed encryption” It gets you as close to keeping data safe as it is possible. This time around, we welcomed Maarten Vanneste of the Meeting Design Institute to go over a topic we’re all too familiar with – internet connectivity.

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Stova

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A hybrid event is one that combines a face-to-face (F2F) event at a physical location with a “virtual” online component for remote attendees. As F2F events reemerge, meeting designers will face a dilemma: How do you organize an event with two radically different audiences?

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. And the COVID-19 pandemic has vividly illustrated how technology has allowed us, almost overnight, to redefine what we have thought of as meetings for hundreds of years to a largely—at least for now—online experience. Institutions. The things we do reflect our culture.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I will meet online with your class for free. During the COVID-19 pandemic, much education has moved online. It’s a good time to invite guest presenters into your online classroom. A freewheeling Ask Me Anything about meeting design that delivers optimal learning, connection, engagement, and action outcomes?

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 7, 2021

Why am I writing about social learning on a blog that’s (mainly) about meeting design? Which means, to create the best meetings we need to maximize the social learning that takes place. ” — The revolution in online learning , Seth Godin. [Hint: We’re not more intelligent than other species.]

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 21, 2022

A professional conference moderator can be the glue that brings an online or in-person event together. A company has launched to make it easier to find one no matter where you’re holding your meeting. A new service for sourcing conference emcees, moderators, and facilitators made its official launch January 17.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a post on his Conferences that Work blog , conference designer Adrian Segar writes: “If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Asked about the challenges in creating Momentum, Christel shared, ‘When bringing the hackathon online, everyone’s success depends on their ability to connect and collaborate with other people. However, collaboration remotely or online is highly fragmented. And we really wanted to bring that online.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 19, 2024

Forged ahead and wrote what eventually became a series of three books on conference design. Consequently became a valued resource on meeting design and facilitation for thousands of people and organizations. Mentorship and the mentee Mentorship is often depicted as a formal process with a mentor regularly meeting with a mentee.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings. From small, high-level, high-stakes get-togethers to association regional and national meetings of every size. In-person, online, and hybrid. You name it, I’ve probably done it. What do my clients think?

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Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

For example, you can form an online community about your event. Events are more fun when people are having a good time, learning and forming new bonds. There are several strategies you can use to promote event networking. Encourage sharing, as well as personal conversations through activities and pre-allocated “networking stations”.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

It may seem strange to run experiments at conferences, but I’ve participated in (and designed) a few conference experiments over the years, and have invariably found them to be some of the most interesting and illuminating meeting experiences I’ve ever had. Session-based experiments.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A case in point: During the years that Juraj Holub, a digital marketing and branding expert, worked as chief meeting designer for interactive meeting software tool Slido, he used LinkedIn to connect with the contacts he made at the conferences he attended all over the world. We are passionate about events and meetings.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Companies bombard me with offers to check out online meeting platforms. Butter is an online meeting platform that is designed to support the facilitation of great interactive meetings. Like just about every recently introduced online platform, its developers are continually updating it. (In

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

But last week I received a long email from a client whom I’d consulted a couple of times on the design of her organization’s online conferences. Getting thoughtful specific feedback This doesn’t happen very often. Feedback like this is a gift that helps me improve my craft. industry education ).

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. In 2023, in-person is back! And, you know what? Typical Participate!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 25, 2021

Resources [flexible physical and/or online spaces, facilitators, and a schedule that can be developed, as needed, at the event]. Notice that providing these improvements over traditional meetings doesn’t mean that your meeting will turn out to be wildly different from what took place before.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components. 15:00 Why we need to have participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 14, 2022

Personal meetings like these, whether brief or extended, between good friends or strangers, are fundamental. Conferences, whether in-person or online, are also potential arenas for conversations. Read any of my books to learn specific techniques and designs that create meaningful and valuable conversations during meeting sessions.).

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Conferences that Work

MAY 22, 2023

My books offer practical advice and best practices for designing and executing successful participant-driven and participation-rich meetings, whether they are virtual or in-person, and they are used by numerous meeting and hospitality education programs. appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 1, 2024

PSFG has a deep appreciation for the importance of meeting design. ” —Extract from an interview with Cath Thompson of Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) by Alec Saelens on January 25, 2024 Rachel contracted me in 2022 for design consultation on PSFG’s first online peer conference. I get feedback!

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. Photo attribution: Flickr user zedzap.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Luckily, this is typically part of good meeting design — it’s not something that you need to awkwardly or artificially introduce. Good large group work includes short breakouts, where impromptu small groups meet, think, discuss, and share. How can we avoid missing the quiet folks in large groups? Engage/reengage.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

Create Your Dream Conference Collectively On This Friday’s #Eventprofs Happy Hour Join me and my special guest Bernie DeKoven on Friday, November 20, 2015 from 4 – 6 pm EST for a unique online experience where we’ll collectively create our perfect.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 9, 2017

According to my weblogs, this site is now one of the most popular websites on meeting design and related issues, with 31 million page views to date, 25 million of which were made in the last three years. As expected, hardly anyone visited initially. As I steadily added content (at least once per week) viewership grew.

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Gavel International

AUGUST 26, 2024

Conduct regular audits of your website, email campaigns, social media accounts, online sales materials, online customer support portal, and the all-important CRM. You can also consider an in-person strategic meeting designed to hear input from key department leaders.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Adrian Segar: The subtlety of designing meetings is that you need people who I would call facilitators. I define myself as a meeting designer and facilitator. I [design and facilitate them] online as well.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 18, 2021

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. A virtual conference is not just another Zoom call or GoToWebinar, it is an elevated online experience with riveting content.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. The unprecedented rise in demand for meetings and events will continue this year, with CWT Meetings & Travel predicting a robust 5-10% growth in demand. Meeting Design Trends.

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