Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2022

Here’s a rare opportunity to ask me anything about meeting design and facilitation at a unique, free, online workshop. The Gatherly platform will allow us to learn about each other and about top-of-mind issues, concerns, and questions through small group work, human spectrograms , and fishbowl discussion.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

There are also more event-centric platforms like Hubilo, Eventzilla, 123Signup, Ovelt, and many more that not only cater to your specific event needs but also integrate with other tools like analytics and tech interfaces. It also means knowing which social media platform to focus on and which assets to invest in, like influencers and tech.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings. Though there are many features that would make the platform better, it’s popular for good reason. has proved very reliable despite the platform’s meteoric growth. In person meetings have vanished overnight.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

I decided to facilitate an online workshop in Gatherly that took full advantage of the platform. This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Long considered the duller, nerdier counterpart to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the 20-year-old business-oriented social-media channel was ranked as one of the top 10 fastest-growing brands in the world in 2022. The platform, which has reported that it adds a new user every three seconds, now has 950 million users in 200 countries.

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Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

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. These all fall in step with Pinterest’s identity as a visual platform.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

Music festivals have become the best platforms for events to showcase their campaigns, providing memorable experiences to hundreds of thousands of people. Learn from the Best Music Festival Activations of 2017. More people who are looking for that live music experience go to music festivals, and we as event planners should follow suit.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Luckily, a host of new platforms have appeared this year ( 1 ) ( 2 ) that offer a great online social experience. We’ll use two online platforms for the wake. The online social will be available after the opening, and will use one of the platforms mentioned in the above reviews. Zoom meeting monitoring.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

In-person meeting : participants are physically together. Online meeting : participants are connected to each other via an internet platform like Zoom or Teams. Hybrid meeting : A meeting with in-person and online components as defined above, plus additional forms explored below. A terminology reminder.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2024

Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry. I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

The visual platform was built for mass collaboration and is an integrated open 3D world that turns collaboration on challenges into a unified, effective and playful experience for everyone. In the beginning, we looked at what was on the market and saw that many online event platforms attempt to mimic real life.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 22, 2023

VitalSource’s platform, BookShelf, is user-friendly and intuitive , making it easy for you to incorporate my books into your coursework. These include a platform for creating and sharing course materials, customizable content, and analytics to track student engagement and progress. appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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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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Conferences that Work

MAY 24, 2021

Participants logged onto the Platform for Online Group Studies … to complete the Test of Collective Intelligence (TCI) with their partner. ” Artificial online meetings. This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ).

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Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

However, many proponents of modern meeting design recommend letting participants choose their seating to spur engagement and networking. The unfortunate realities of our modern world have made event security an imperative in contemporary meeting design and planning.

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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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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 9, 2017

Friends don’t let friends give away their original content to third-party platforms. Let me be clear, by all means share your content for free on any of the gazillion social media platforms available. Posting your original content exclusively on someone else’s platform puts you at their mercy. No they don’t.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 18, 2021

Employees and businesses shifted from an office environment to a virtual setting via platforms, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Face-to-face events, conferences, and meetings were postponed or cancelled for the near future. Virtual Event Platform and AV Partner. A virtual event platform was vetted, selected, and tested.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

If Twitter doesn’t strike your social media fancy, Livewall lets you broadcast a variety of social networks live, allowing you to display photos, videos and even contests via their platform. If you’d like to find the most effective seating option for whatever your programming involves, be sure to brush up on these meeting design basics.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

There are a number of meeting design elements that need to be accounted for, but the cost savings and expanded participation seem well worth it. Imagine that each event has a “window” into all the other locations, and that the focus can be shifted from place to place–like a group video chat but with an event in each window.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2021

Those meetings are all about [talking] them through [the platform]. We livestreamed the board of directors, so any registered participant could view the board meeting through another meeting platform. Like: What happens if the voting platform goes down, then what do we do?

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