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Emcee and meetingdesigner Samme Allen says she founded the company in response to a growing need for experienced emcees, hosts, and moderators who “can be delivered cost effectively, flexibly, and in the most sustainable way.”. The company operates out of the U.K. and Spain, and Allen says she hopes to open an office in the U.S.
(Instructions for how organizations can add their events to the database are available on the Meet Safe website.). This year’s lineup of GMID events reflects not only the surge in 2022 in the number of events that have returned to an in-person format, but a range of meeting-design decisions.
I want to re-share this article that I wrote back in 2019 and was initially published on VDVO website , because the principles of event design remain the same, the human is in the centre of every experience that we want to design for our events and technology technology should enhance this experience, and not replace it.
At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meetingdesign and facilitation; three books (almost!)
Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meetingdesign and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meetingdesign and facilitation. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded.
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 meetingdesign, facilitation, and other topics.
Today, because consulting on meetingdesign and facilitation is a niche practice, marketing via sharing my website posts with subscribers and on social media has also become a significant source of new clients. Feedback like this is a gift that helps me improve my craft. industry education ).
Ten years ago today, I started this website and published my first book: Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. (A To my amazement, this website has had over forty-eight million page views. Ten years of Conferences That Work ! A decade later it’s still selling.). Perhaps I’ll be wrong again about that….
I am happy to partner with VitalSource to make my books on meetingdesign more widely available to students and faculty members around the world. And, of course, if you or your students prefer, my ebooks are still available for purchase directly from this website. appeared first on Conferences That Work.
Instead, invest in your own website. Seven years ago I started the website you’re reading. According to my weblogs, this site is now one of the most popular websites on meetingdesign and related issues, with 31 million page views to date, 25 million of which were made in the last three years.
A common example is booking websites. The gamification strategies on these websites endeavour to make us book as soon as possible. We used meetingdesign to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. Teresa shared, ‘The best gamification is that which is unnoticed.
It could be anything from how sales leads interact with your website to social media monitoring. For example, if your objective is to study how potential customers interact with your website, you will need to determine where you will need to pull the information and whether it is correct.
Be sure to visit the platform websites to get the latest updates. I’m sympathetic, though purchasing a subscription for an independent meetingdesigner and facilitator like me is probably not a great fit. Better yet, get a free time-limited account and check them out yourself. OK, on with the review. Platform metaphor.
Note: There are no affiliate links in this post (or on this website), and I have no connection with any of the sellers or companies mentioned.]. Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meetingdesign and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was.
And it’s mostly about meetingdesign and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Adrian Segar: So the answer to your question is, I wrote a book, and then, with a website and a blog, people started finding me and asking me to [design and facilitate] events. Adrian Segar: Okay. This was my fifth career.
To execute a successful virtual event, our team was tasked with developing a strategy that enhanced meetingdesign, optimized the attendee’s experience, and increased attendee engagement. Six weeks prior to the program, the attendees received a save the date and a month out the registration website was launched.
Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends MeetingDesign 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. MeetingDesign Trends.
MeetingDesign Consider the format that is most likely to achieve the goals of the meeting. Try to understand what people really want (and why), what their goals are and create a rough outline of an agenda. Encourage participation. Most importantly, demonstrate what it means to work in a collaborative environment.
If you’d told me back in 2009 that by 2024 I’d have written over a thousand blog posts for this website, I’d have told you you were crazy. (I’ve I’ve published 827; the rest are drafts, but still.) I’d have thought I would have run out of ideas years ago. Yes, I do have new ideas regularly!
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