Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are interested in getting customized training and support on how to significantly improve your meetings, please don’t hesitate to get in touch !

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 9, 2019

Discover the top 20 event venues for public and corporate events in Jacksonville, Florida! Here's a surprising stat for you: Jacksonville, Florida is the most populous city in the Southeastern United States. In this article, we'll take a look at the top 20 event venues in Jacksonville, Florida. Source: Visit Florida.

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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. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.

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APRIL 3, 2017

How do room sets imply and influence what happens at meetings? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Can room sets affect the quality of democracy, sharing, and equality experienced by participants? Sources for additional information.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I was the guest at Professor Dan Cormany ‘s Convention Management class at Florida International University. I have a standing invitation for event and hospitality teachers to meet online with their class for free. I increased my speaking volume, but it was as if I had been banished from the meeting. I asked again.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 24, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. So you’re holding a conference.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why I love conference facilitation and design appeared first on Conferences That Work. After setting up a Personal Introspective this morning (25 minutes) I turned over what happens to the small groups. It is one.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. It is one.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Participant-driven and participation-rich events provide far more opportunities to meet people you actually want to meet. Mythodology: Adding novelty to a meeting makes it better. But making your meeting better lasts. Reality : Novelty is a one-time trick.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here’s a short introduction to these technologies, and how the meeting industry is starting to use them. Governments have adopted biometric systems to meet security concerns. An introduction to facial analysis and facial recognition You might be wondering what facial analysis is, and how it differs from facial recognition.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 19, 2017

Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. After completing my third Vipassana silent meditation retreat (this one at the headquarters of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts), I’m gonna say: yes they can!

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Want to get a taste of my new book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need ? (It Chapter 2 – Why you need to crowdsource meeting content [pdf]. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Event Crowdsourcing free chapters! It will be out in November — next month!) It is one.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Facilitating change: The power of sharing our experience appeared first on Conferences That Work. D was clearly feeling fragile. Group work can be confrontational at times. So I privately hoped that the other group members would be supportive. What happened?

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Participant-driven and participation-rich peer conference designs improve on traditional events because they don’t treat openings and closings as necessary evils but as critical components of the meeting design. Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Participate!

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MAY 21, 2018

The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary. Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’re not going to get into the political debate surrounding this controversial law but it did get me wondering if all this attention has had an impact on whether or not event planners will hold meetings in states where this type of law exists. After all, tourism plays a very large role in the Florida economy.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: 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. It changes everything.” It is one.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

So this is what we did: Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! At the same time, we didn’t want the pitches to be too short and we wanted the participants not only to vote, but also to learn from the projects. It is one.

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MAY 29, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Related posts: The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. Image attribution: Flickr user chiotsrun.

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MAY 18, 2020

I’ve included links to the relevant Zoom tutorials and reference articles, when appropriate, in the following instructions. Frequent and well-designed small group work is the key to creating active learning and connection at any meeting. Zoom allows facilitators to speedily split a meeting into up to 50 separate sessions.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 7, 2022

When time is short and the to-do list is long, the solution is often to bring in an expert contractor to help with everything from sourcing of space and technology solutions to meeting design and management. Time is valuable when planning an event—corporate meeting professional time and consultant time.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

How attention pays in the world of meeting professionals As event strategists and experience designers, you create unforgettable, luxurious experiences and elevate every event to leave a lasting impression and provide lifetime memories for your attendees. This article appears in the December 2023 issue.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 27, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post How to improve your facilitation: an example appeared first on Conferences That Work. Share your ideas in the comments below!

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Afterwards, we saw many people swapping business cards and making arrangements to meet up again. Such workshops routinely meet the outcomes they’re designed to achieve: creating useful and memorable learning experiences and connections. Many organizations focus on getting the “best” experts to speak at their meetings.

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JUNE 26, 2017

I’ve spent 25 years working on changing outmoded mindsets about what we should be doing in meetings. Historically, topics had to be determined in advance, the meeting format was mainly lecture and did not encourage interaction, and content was king. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. And it is changing.

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MAY 25, 2020

Although less critical, I’d encourage participants to join the meeting on a PC too, if possible.) At the start of the meeting, make the facilitators Zoom co-hosts , so they can manage participants (mainly mute/unmute) in their Three Questions breakout room. Have everyone mute their audio except the facilitator and scribes.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 8, 2020

The conference program group can meet in a variety of ways. Perhaps participants are listening to a presentation while your small group meets in a Zoom breakout room. If attendees are taking a meal break, you can use the current Zoom meeting, and restrict attendance to the conference program group. Tools for in-person meetings.

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Endless Events

JULY 18, 2020

People are growing tired of Zoom meetings, and the thought of being together in-person is getting and more and more exciting after such a long break from social gatherings. Even tech companies are acknowledging that the typical way we meet virtually isn’t working. One of those things is taking a trip to Disney World.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 15, 2020

At the end of each session, participants return to the main Zoom meeting, and indicate their choice for the next set of sessions. At an online conference using the Zoom platform, once participants are in a specific breakout room/session, they can only leave the room and return to the main Zoom meeting. Moving between breakout rooms.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Editor’s note : The lawyer quoted in this article is not providing legal advice. There’s much to consider legally to get in-person meetings truly get going again. Smart Meetings got in touch with an expert about what meeting professionals should be thinking about when face-to-face meetings resume.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 6, 2023

Banish manic-tasking in yourself and your audiences Editor’s Note : The following is an excerpt from the book “Attention Pays: How to Drive Profitability, Productivity and Accountability” by Need James, who will be speaking at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Florida Experience in August at PGA National Resort, Palm Beach.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

The participants are four hundred scientists who work all over the world and only get to meet en masse every few years. After a batch of these talks, each presenter moves to a separate space in the room and session participants are then free to meet in small groups with the presenter(s) they chose for in-depth discussions.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Hotels, destination management companies, tourism-dependent restaurants and New Orleans & Company issued press releases, contributed articles and leveraged every conceivable marketing channels to tell the story of a reborn city. We still had to be out in front of potential customers, meeting them face-to-face.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Most people won’t ask questions at meetings. In a thoughtful article “ Audience Engagement – at the Heart of Meetings “, Pádraic Gilligan writes: “…We all want audience engagement so why doesn’t it take place?…While Read the full article at Conferences That Work. ” I disagree. I’ll.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. How do you use pair share?

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. Stay on time! It seems obvious to do this. It is one.

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