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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

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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Doing peer conferences right

Conferences that Work

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.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

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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Prescribing a Hub-and-Spoke Approach

PCMA Convene

This arrangement works especially well given the Italian medical system, Sambugaro said. In a post on his Conferences that Work blog , conference designer Adrian Segar writes: “If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings.

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

Conferences That Work. Conferences That Work is the creation of conference design and facilitation legend Adrian Segar. His blog is a deep-dive into conference engagement and the fundamentals of successful networking like comfort, interaction and the exchange of ideas. Creators of Q&A and polling platform Sli.do