Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers. One way to introduce conference newbies to a recurring unconference is to use a buddy system.

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Conference Venues 2023 Consulting 266

Conferences that Work

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. It’s fascinating how you can really trust in the system. And that’s what happened.

Conference 156

Conference 2022 2004 Meeting Design 156

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

Obvious problems (“known knowns”) have known solutions, often called “best practice” For example, how do I: Determine what employee data to store in the human resources system? These examples might remind you of the kinds of topics that routinely appear as the titles of traditional conference sessions.

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Conference 2010 2011 2014 342