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Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate

Conferences that Work

Every time I find myself wishing for an external event, I realize that I’m way better off focusing on something I can control instead. This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Seth Godin, What Would Happen.

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Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings

Conferences that Work

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. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. Tech In Asia explains: “Imagine being near a steep cliff.

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Stay on time!

Conferences that Work

Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. The notes at the.

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

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? But first….

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Here are my impressions of a session I attended in 2011.). The Solution Room creates a host of simultaneous small group problem-solving experiments, designed to support the solving of participants’ current challenges in a single session. These events made a profound impression on pretty much everyone who participated.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Beyond his proper books, he served as editor for the 2011 book 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. Prior to RPL, he led engineering for BackType which was acquired by Twitter in 2011. Bo Krüger is a speaker, facilitator and meeting designer. What is he known for? Where to Find him?

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Beyond his proper books, he served as editor for the 2011 book 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. Prior to RPL, he led engineering for BackType which was acquired by Twitter in 2011. Bo Krüger is a speaker, facilitator and meeting designer. What is he known for? Where to Find him?