Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, 1—In-person attendees participate in an online session!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. 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? Online pods.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Adding to my reports on new platforms providing online incarnations of traditional conference socials , here’s a review of online social platform Rally. First, if you don’t know about online social platforms, check out the introduction included in my earlier reviews of Gatherly and Yotribe.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” And so it goes with meetings. It’s why businesses sponsor meetings. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We talk about all kinds of things, with a focus on my work and thinking about participant-driven and participation-rich meetings and event design. 07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 16:30 Online meetings benefit from these designs too.

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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. So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. The usual caveats.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

Over the years I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of meetings. One of the most common issues I address that is rarely acknowledged openly is the tension between the wants and needs of suppliers and practitioners at meetings. But what happens when both suppliers and practitioners at meetings attend sessions ?

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 25, 2021

How can we design the optimum balance between control versus freedom at meetings? Note that I’m not suggesting meeting professionals give up any attempt to control what happens at their events. Creating events that truly meet participants’ wants and needs. You’ve been kidding yourself all these years.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Martin, welcome! Martin Duffy: Well, good afternoon.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. In person meetings have vanished overnight.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 19, 2024

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. However, I have a more flexible definition. I love this work. Just like my mentors did.

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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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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 4, 2022

In addition, the multi-hub approach has been a particularly effective way of navigating the pandemic by bringing small groups together — 20-30 people in each small meeting room — instead of hosting a mass gathering, she said, and having the program delivered at hotels afforded better access than at hospitals during COVID. “I

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LinkedIn’s growth spurt is evident in the business events industry as well: When we asked meeting organizers what new social media channels they were using to promote events in Convene ’s 2023 Meetings Market Survey , the leading response — chosen by three out of five respondents — was LinkedIn.

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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

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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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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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

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. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. And, you know what?

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 18, 2021

Transforming an In-Person Sales Kickoff into a Virtual Meeting. Face-to-face events, conferences, and meetings were postponed or cancelled for the near future. A virtual conference is not just another Zoom call or GoToWebinar, it is an elevated online experience with riveting content. Virtual Event Platform and AV Partner.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 14, 2022

Meetings of every kind offer these opportunities. 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. What is talked about is far less important than the act of telling.

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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. Embracing the Weirdness of Meetings.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2021

For the first fully hybrid National Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors meeting on May 14, the leadership met together in Chicago, while around 800 directors were remote. And that means that a lot of voting takes place — complicated enough to handle at an in-person meeting and challenging for an online meeting.

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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

JUNE 18, 2018

Experienced meeting planners know that every meeting has its share of unexpected surprises. Minimizing surprises like CoffeeGate is default behavior for meeting planners. Surprising Meetings But not all meeting surprises are bad.

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2019

This time around, we’re talking about event tech alongside some very special icons our team had the pleasure to meet during IMEX Frankfurt 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.

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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. to say and do. Photo attribution: Flickr user zedzap.

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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. Instead, build social learning into your meetings as much as possible.

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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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Gavel International

MAY 20, 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 feedback from crucial department leaders.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

There have been many times when I’ve been understandably silent/disengaged/distracted during meetings, and I’m sure everyone else has too. Luckily, this is typically part of good meeting design — it’s not something that you need to awkwardly or artificially introduce. People who are distracted or disengaged.

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Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

For example, you can form an online community about your event. Up Your Learning and Event Networking Experience at Meetings. Aside from the experience, there are two more major things you expect meeting attendees to take home: knowledge and new opportunities. There are several strategies you can use to promote event networking.

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