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Adrian Segar Speaker Tips Interview

Conferences that Work

workshop for Dutch professional moderators, I was interviewed by Otto Wijnen about speaker and presentation tips for making presentations more effective by incorporating active learning. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! After a one-day Participate! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010?

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How to Find & Select The Best Mobile Apps for Conferences

Eventmobi

But how do you choose the right app for your conferences? Plus, what features should you be looking for in a conference event app? Benefits of a Great Conference App A well-designed mobile event app can make a huge impact for your conference attendees.

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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

At the time, a mere six years ago, the fledgling for-profit entity that wagered its future on the potential of virtual meetings staged sessions that were too heavily weighted toward the online audience in the verbal communication and moderation by the speakers. The Switch On. Fast-forward to January 2017. Hybrid at its Best.

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The Conference Debt You Cannot Afford

Velvet Chainsaw

Organizational debt—the interest your conference pays when its structures, policies, procedures, practices, committees and leadership roles stay fixed and accumulate even as the world around it changes.* This putrefied design is a hackitecture—frozen solid in time and place. Our conferences end up with hackitectures, petrified designs.

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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

Truly creative event design questions, for example, whether we need to have a keynote speaker , relegate significant participant discussions to breaks and socials, or supply entertainment during meals. Can we overcome bias against truly creative event design? We can do better than novelty at our meetings.

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Event Engagement: How to Get Attendees Excited About Complex Concepts

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

Part of the reason why I wanted to do the conference was because I wanted to grow a community and grow a movement around this in the United States. “I had been talking to a few people about starting a conference in the US many times, but always chickened out. I’m not trained in conference organisation or conference design.

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How Social Media Examiner Grew Conference Volunteers by 200%

InitLive

Social Media Marketing World , held by Social Media Examiner (SME), is a conference designed for social media experts. Their speakers have complete confidence in their field and even boast that they can teach attendees how to get a 10X return on investment.