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Make the meeting bigger!

Conferences that Work

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. The massive disruption of in-person events since March 2020 has shaken our industry to the core. One bright spot has been the normalization of online meetings for routine connection and collaboration.

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Make your entire conference a braindate

Conferences that Work

One of Skift’s “ 10 event trends for 2020 ” is networking. ” The author, Julius Solaris , tweeted: “…braindates are in our top 10 trends for 2020…Too much of an undervalued tool and approach. Because good event design is about how a conference works. Time to end that.”

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

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. I’m looking back on 2023. And , dear reader, get 20% off my ebooks until the end of the year!

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New Service for Sourcing Emcees

MeetingsNet

Emcee and meeting designer 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.”.

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Why Digital Events Are in ‘an Awkward Phase’

PCMA Convene

A visiting professor at Pratt Institute in New York and the founder of a startup that uses AI as a tool to measure emotions online, Pavliscak speaks frequently about tech design and emotions. The same week she appeared at Collision@Home, she spoke at Primer 2020 , an annual conference produced by the Design Futures Initiative, both via Zoom.

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Online Events Grow in Wake of Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

As efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by restricting travel ripple across the globe, a growing number of event organizers are opting to move meetings online as an alternative to canceling them. I do believe that this is going to be part of the toolbox for meeting designers or meeting professionals.”

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Control versus freedom at meetings

Conferences that Work

Dee W Hock (@deewhock) August 9, 2020. As Dee W Hock , founder and former CEO of VISA, put it: Any idiot can impose and exercise control. It takes genius to elicit freedom and release creativity. — Any idiot can impose and exercise control. It takes genius to elicit freedom and release creativity.”.

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