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Powerful Panels interview with Adrian Segar

Conferences that Work

Here’s my Powerful Panels interview with good friend and meeting panel doyen Kristin Arnold. During our 25 minutes together, we discussed various panel formats, their value, and how to structure and design powerful panel discussions into the larger context of meetings, conferences, and events.

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MCs For Events: How They Can Make It Or Break It

Endless Events

It’s all about panels and moderation, and it will serve as a nice prequel for today’s show. Meeting Design Toolbox for Meeting Architects. Welcome to today’s exciting conversation about MCs for events! And more precisely, how they can make or break your event. Samme Allen ( @sammeallen ).

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings. Yesterday, Brandt was presenting at an MPI event on hybrid meetings, so Glenn shared the event so we could kibitz. On a small group Zoom, watching a meeting industry Zoom panel.

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New Service for Sourcing Emcees

MeetingsNet

Known as Conferenceemcees, the company matches professional freelancers from around the world with both in-person and virtual events to serve in a variety of roles, such as awards-program host, town-hall or panel moderator, or overall conference master of ceremony.

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Ask Me Anything—a better alternative to guest lectures

Conferences that Work

Recently, I’ve been appearing as a guest at college event planning and hospitality courses to talk about meeting design. (I Rather than lecture for an hour, I’ve been using an Ask Me Anything (aka AMA ) meeting format. Related posts: Ask Me Anything About Conference Panels — Thursday, July 21, 4-6 pm EDT Blab!

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Review of online social platform Rally

Conferences that Work

Presentation & panel capability. So you can’t use Rally to create a presenter or panel session for more than (currently) 36 people. I’m sympathetic, though purchasing a subscription for an independent meeting designer and facilitator like me is probably not a great fit.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

To this end, they contracted a well-known futurist who offered a short opening keynote on how to think about the industry’s future, followed by a panel of leading industry experts who discussed how his ideas could be applied in detail. The winners receive the “Golden Elephant” trophy at a black-tie awards ceremony.

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