Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

The first time I met him—at the premier EventCamp in 2010 —he immediately purchased my just-published book, sight unseen. The following year, David was kind enough to honor me in his flagship publication BizBash as one of the most innovative event professionals. Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!)

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. Provide an emotional experience.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

If you do this, using Google Books Ngram Viewer , you’ll notice a curious thing. In 1804, the earliest year included in the Google Books database, the word interaction barely appears. Society, as reflected by books in English, now talks about interaction about twice as often as presentation.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

But what most event owners don’t know is how to satisfy them. So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who have purchased my books or the hundreds of clients who have benefited from my meeting design and facilitation services, please don’t keep me a secret!

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JULY 23, 2018

Books are Man’s Best Friend. Gaining knowledge and insights by reading up books is to date more effective than reading books or watching videos. Event Industry comprises of many people starting with event designers, event managers to event planners, board members of an organisation.

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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. ” Early in the book, is this passage: “What makes human beings unique? What are you waiting for?

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

As I write this I’m designing a one-day, in-person peer conference for 150 members of a regional association. As readers of my books know, running a peer conference for this many people in one day would be a somewhat rushed affair. Read my book Event Crowdsourcing to learn in detail how to do these tasks.).

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

But I’m a consultant who has long subscribed to Jerry Weinberg’s Seventh Law of Marketing : “Give away your best ideas” and Credit Rule : “You’ll never accomplish anything if you care who gets the credit”, from his invaluable book The Secrets of Consulting. ” “Stop.

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APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ? I discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

And so it goes with meetings. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote a long book about this. It’s why businesses sponsor meetings. It’s why we judge meeting experiences largely based on how they were perceived at their peak and at their end. Institutions.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 14, 2022

Given the fundamental human need to tell, meeting stakeholders owe it to participants to create opportunities and environments for rich conversations in the sessions, rather than just the gaps between them.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. And that’s when I decided I would write my first book, Conferences That Work, Creating Events that People Love , to talk about the format, and make it available to anyone who wanted to use it. Adrian Segar: Okay.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 15, 2021

Recently, I’ve been appearing as a guest at college event planning and hospitality courses to talk about meeting design. (I Rather than lecture for an hour, I’ve been using an Ask Me Anything (aka AMA ) meeting format. A one-sentence distillation: learning is a process not an event.).

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Conferences that Work

JULY 31, 2017

Although I have good reasons to champion meeting designs where the participants get to choose what they want and need to discuss and learn rather than a program committee , there is invariably a place for some predetermined presentations at conferences. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

Morgan plans her tours using some of the same skills and insights that event designers employ — her events just happen to be mobile. The Gather Greene event venue and nature retreat in upstate New York is intended to blur the boundaries of indoor and outdoor spaces. More Meeting Trends. American Tobacco Campus).

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Conferences that Work

JULY 3, 2023

I’ve used it myself at hundreds of events, and many facilitators and meeting designers have also adopted it as an effective way for attendees to get to learn about each other and uncover what they would like to discuss while they are together.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

And I’ve become intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating the peer processes developed for successful face-to-face meetings into online events. In person meetings have vanished overnight. It’s time to implement what we’ve learned about great face-to-face meeting design and process into online meetings.

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JUNE 3, 2019

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve written about this in my books; here’s a short critique of Open Space. In a sentence, Open Space provides little opportunity for participants to discover important peers, privileges extroverts, may not meet the actual wants and needs of participants, and uses a rather crude closing process.

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MARCH 13, 2017

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? Here are three things we can do. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Morgan plans her tours using some of the same skills and insights that event designers employ — her events just happen to be mobile. The Gather Greene event venue and nature retreat in upstate New York is intended to blur the boundaries of indoor and outdoor spaces. More Meeting Trends. American Tobacco Campus).

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

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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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For a full explanation of why active learning modalities are superior, see Chapter 4 of my book The Power of Participation.). Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. So why do we continue to use broadcast-style formats?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” I think it’s reasonable to concentrate on fairness to participants : the majority of those involved with the meeting. In his influential 1971 book A Theory of Justice , John suggested that “the fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.”.

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MAY 22, 2023

Check to see if your school already makes books available via VitalSource Campus Retailers. It is critical to understand how to design conferences and events effectively. Now, you and your students can easily access my books from anywhere in the world, at any time, both online and offline.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

After I talked about my meeting design work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. Want to create a peer conference, but don’t want to buy any of my excellent books on this topic?

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JANUARY 24, 2022

There are many different formats you can use for such conversations (described in detail in my books ): pair and trio share, facilitated small group breakouts, fishbowls, etc. In effect, you’re providing structured hallway conversations about the content that’s just been delivered.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). These events made a profound impression on pretty much everyone who participated. A rotating crew of two or three volunteers organize these wonderful events. Complex problems.

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MARCH 21, 2022

This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation. See my book The Power of Participation to learn more about body voting.).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. In this review of Butter, I’ll share a big picture overview, what I think is Butter’s finest feature, an example of how to implement a meeting design in Butter, and my closing thoughts. Meeting design case.

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Converve

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Nonetheless, however practical these things may be, at one point or another you need a good old (printed) book or magazine. Particularly now in the darker months of the year, amid the cozy, homey atmosphere where there’s nothing more comfortable than tucking in under a warm cover with a cup of tea and a good book. Link: [link].

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Converve

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Nonetheless, however practical these things may be, at one point or another you need a good old (printed) book or magazine. Particularly now in the darker months of the year, amid the cozy, homey atmosphere where there’s nothing more comfortable than tucking in under a warm cover with a cup of tea and a good book. Link: [link].

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APRIL 16, 2018

Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.)

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Facilitate the use of the book into the flow and format and, better yet, introduce the book in the beginning of the meeting by creating getting-to-know-each-other exercises in which a photo of the individual participants is a part of the book cover. The real magic….

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APRIL 3, 2023

Furthermore, I have consistently produced high-quality books on meeting design that have received critical acclaim and have helped thousands of meeting professionals to significantly improve their conferences. Now, I need to adjust my prices to ensure that my business remains viable.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But over and above this, he is known for authoring books like “ Hooked: How to Buil -For d Habitming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life ”. You can book an appointment with Nir , here Robert Beno Cialdini Who is he? You can book an appointment with Douglas, here. Where to Find him?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But over and above this, he is known for authoring books like “ Hooked: How to Buil -For d Habitming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life ”. You can book an appointment with Nir , here Robert Beno Cialdini Who is he? You can book an appointment with Douglas, here. Where to Find him?

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