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Why I love conference facilitation and design

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Here’s an example of why I love conference facilitation and design. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why I love conference facilitation and design appeared first on Conferences That Work. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. The notes at the.

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

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Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. As an example I’ll use a three-day conference I’m currently designing. Here are three session formats we’re using for the middle of the conference arc. In my experience, each of them is far more effective than a traditional conference lecture.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom

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I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A.

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The meeting industry’s biggest dirty secret

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For example: Revenue models. 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.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 2

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I developed The Three Questions in 1995 as a fundamental opening process for peer conferences. You can find the most detailed implementation in Chapter 18 of my 2019 book, Event Crowdsourcing. Conferences That Work [2009] (Chapter 25, pages 260-265). What is The Three Questions, and why use it? Ten minute break.

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Six ways to keep attendees comfortable and improve your event

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Until I notice what’s really upsetting me, I typically and unfairly blame my irritability on innocent culprits, for example: The tediousness of gardening because insects are swarming around my head. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The delay in waiting for my food to arrive in a noisy restaurant.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 5

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Part 3 describes how to run them using Zoom breakout rooms, and Part 4 covers how to create an optimum conference program. This post, Part 5, the last in this series, explains how to run your peer conference using Zoom breakout rooms. You’ll use the same procedure for every conference time slot.