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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

When a business event is built around attendee interaction, empowering participants to shape the content through active involvement and engagement, the outcomes are more likely to be successful, and at the same time, stronger and more meaningful relationships will result.

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Use spectives to unlock the full potential of conferences

Conferences that Work

the 2015 PCMA Education Conference ) and small (e.g. Spectives are popular and successful because, like peer conferences, they adapt beautifully to participants’ wants and needs. I’ve facilitated them for large (e.g. the 2023 BizBash Leadership Summit ) conferences.

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Playing games, gamification, and the gulf between them

Conferences that Work

Related posts: Create Your Dream Conference Collectively On This Friday’s #Eventprofs Happy Hour Join me and my special guest Bernie DeKoven on Friday, November 20, 2015 from 4 – 6 pm EST for a unique online experience where we’ll collectively create our perfect.

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Case Study: Meeting Expectations Doubles Attendee Event App Adoption Year-Over-Year

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Giving their Event App a distinctive but simple name made it easier to find in the app store. Searching for the exact event name, “Spotlight on HR”, in the app store was more likely to return the right results than searching for “Atlanta Human Resources Conference 2015.” Reinforce The Value of The Event App Through Event Design.

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Community versus audience in journalism and meetings

Conferences that Work

These two quotes are from my posts on the parallels between the evolution of journalism and events (2015) and on the parallel missions of journalism and participant-driven and participation-rich events (2018).]

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Gamification makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli

Conferences that Work

Related posts: Create Your Dream Conference Collectively On This Friday’s #Eventprofs Happy Hour Join me and my special guest Bernie DeKoven on Friday, November 20, 2015 from 4 – 6 pm EST for a unique online experience where we’ll collectively create our perfect.

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Lessons for #eventprofs from an improv and mindfulness workshop — Part 1

Conferences that Work

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Although that opportunity had to be passed up—PCMA made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: facilitating the 2015 PCMA Education Conference —I made it to the 2016 workshop. How I got there.

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