Conferences that Work

MAY 16, 2022

My workshop was designed to include two chunks of content and two participative exercises. If you have other suggestions for improving the challenging exercise of running an ambitious online workshop, please share them in the comments below. Additional concerns when a workshop is online. I hope they help you avoid my mistakes.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you have a polling instrument, ask each participant to rate their pre-exercise comfort level on working on their challenge on a scale of 1 (extremely uncomfortable) to 10 (perfectly comfortable) and to enter their rating. The comfort spectrogram. Run the comfort spectrogram, sharing your campfire and jungle images at the appropriate times.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 24, 2021

After participants completed the pre-test survey independently, they initiated a conference call with their partner. My second objection concerns the brevity of the research exercises. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence? Working as a team.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 25, 2023

Priya Parker speaks at the SXSW EDU Conference & Festival 2022. Steve Rogers photo) It’s no stretch for today’s opening keynote speaker, Priya Parker, to connect her area of expertise to the business events industry: She is the author of the highly acclaimed bestselling book The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

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). Staffing an online Zoom peer conference.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2018

“Hip” and “scientific conference” are terms that may seem incongruous. But Laura Metcalf Jelinek, CAE, associate vice president of meetings and travel for the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), helped make both concepts work together at the association’s annual Osteopathic Medical Education Conference (OMED). Letter Perfect.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2016

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Although that opportunity had to be passed up—PCMA made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: facilitating the 2015 PCMA Education Conference —I made it to the 2016 workshop. How I got there.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 2, 2017

While the answer is left for an exercise for the reader (and this writer), Dan Siegel , clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and a pioneer in the field of interpersonal neurobiology , argues that our identity is not contained so much within us, but between us. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Follow these tips to optimize breaks: Diversify break types (consider active exercises, reflective writing, or alone time). For your event design, this means the emotional aspect should come first in order for any element to be memorable. Memory, therefore, is a crucial consideration in the event design process. “If

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2022

More than 2,000 meetings industry folks gathered at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center for the launch of Business Events Industry Week , a concentration of events designed to illustrate the Power of Purpose exercised when people come together. We wanted to bring the world to the U.S.

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Planning Pod

JULY 29, 2020

Have you ever been to an event that was a snoozer — complete with people practically racing to the coffee station between sessions? Garnering and maintaining an audience’s attention, especially during long meetings or intense conferences, is one of the major challenges event planners and meeting coordinators face.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 12, 2019

They conferred with each other on stage, but we couldn’t easily hear what they were saying. I’ll leave that as an exercise for you. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Can a rehearsal be better than a concert? appeared first on Conferences That Work. This rehearsal was no exception.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I remember a maze-like conference center that had a totally inadequate printed floor plan. Even though I spent the day before the event familiarizing myself with the layout, I still had a hard time figuring out how to get from one room to the next. And don’t forget that messaging isn’t restricted to verbal communication.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 7, 2018

We do a few exercises to get people thinking differently. Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Participate! The key to successful 21st century conferences Attend Participate!, . “ “I conduct face-to-face workshops as well as online ones. Stop wasting valuable time at meetings doing that!

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 8, 2018

Attendees participating in the “Redesigning Event Management for Sustainability” session during the Sustainable Brands 2018 conference. It may sound like a game show about planning events, but is instead a practical exercise for simplifying group decision making. The exercise wasn’t perfect — but what experiment is?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She is co-chair of Events Industry Council’s Meeting and Event Design Group Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force and now consults leading companies on their return to events approach. Conduct event-readiness exercises that outline who is responsible for what if specific things go wrong.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. Meals and breaks are abbreviated or, in extreme cases, eliminated.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 5, 2016

More of my experiences and takeaways for event professionals from the wonderful five-day improv and mindfulness workshop Mindful Play, Playful Mind , held June 8-13 2016, at Mere Point on the beautiful Maine coast — followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). ” Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 14, 2020

She has worked in the meetings and events space for over 25 years. A certified Event Designer and Digital Strategist, Tahira holds a Diploma in Event Management and a Bachelor of Hospitality Management. The events that have been the most successful are the ones that have made it more about design over platform.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 9, 2018

Helping “Keep Austin Weird,” these companies and incubators work with incoming groups to host off-site events, organize team-building exercises, and provide speakers and experts for conferences. . ?. Here are a few local creative companies you can partner with for your next meeting or event in Austin. BossBabesATX.

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ePly

MARCH 18, 2024

Even simple events can have multiple moving parts, making event planning an intense exercise in logistics. More than throwing parties, event planning considers all stages of the event cycle. From conception to post-event marketing, the planner has to be ready for nearly anything. tornado, hurricane, etc.),

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PCMA Convene

JULY 30, 2018

As he told attendees at PCMA’s Education Conference in June, Hansen eventually found his way to a doctor who told him the nerve damage was permanent — and gave him some life-changing advice: “Embrace the shake.”. His PCMA Education Conference session is available online to subscribers. Phil Hansen. So what’s your shake?

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 13, 2017

On Monday afternoon, attendees at the PCMA Education Conference at the New York Marriot Marquis struck out in six different directions from the Times Square property. The takeaways from the off-site immersive sessions will help shape conversations as attendees learn how to apply those lessons to their own events.”. Tavern on the Green.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 5, 2020

Pack your bag” emails got people excited, icebreaker questions added fun to networking exercises and a virtual scavenger hunt on the mobile app gamified the experience and highlighted sponsors. Good Event Design Still Matters. The original plan was to charge the same fee as the in-person conference , but organizers got pushback.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is a thing that it is a skill, and you have to continuously work on it” The Road To Events With Empathy: Practice. “I do work with a team that does apply that to event strategy”, Nick explains. “So we do workshops and we have discoverability exercises called a design lab.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 17, 2016

As the game gets more complicated, it becomes an exercise in concentration and dealing with potential chaos. In Conferences That Work I tell the story of how an entire class of graduate students (including me) stopped understanding our math professor halfway through the semester, and none of us ever informed him we were lost.

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Endless Events

MARCH 29, 2021

So they were doing a team building exercise. That was by design. Even though I had a great time, I thought that maybe I would want to go to that conference.” When people show up in conference rooms, the remote attendees always feel disconnected. As the online attendee, I got to participate in the team building.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 24, 2018

” We wrote about the IPA’s recent Triennial World Conference in Calgary this past September. Hosting the conference had such an impact on its host destination that the city of Calgary created a play charter, in which 30 organizations came together during the conference to pledge to do something about play in the coming year.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Last year, after the Burlington, Vermont–based printer’s first time out of the gate hosting a conference, the company’s marketing specialist, Steve Marshall, and editorial director, Beth Renaud, got plenty of constructive feedback from attendees. ” Maria Henson. “There were no wrong answers.”

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Boomset

OCTOBER 1, 2017

FEATURED VENUE: INTREPID SEA, AIR & SPACE MUSEUM Images courtesy of the Intrepid Museum From trade shows to fundraising galas, the Intrepid is one of the most unique spaces to host an event in NYC.

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Eventinterface

MAY 12, 2017

We had to exercise a little strategy with the transportation team to get our large group up the fort without the use of motor coaches. The perfectly planned night was met with every event planners most unpredictable element. ROI can't just be a term, events will need to be viewed as real investments! the weather.

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Endless Events

JUNE 1, 2018

Corporate event planning can be a daunting task, especially if it’s on top of your already jam-packed schedule. That said, it’s can also be a fun endeavor where you can try out new food, discover exciting venues and even exercise your designing skills a bit. Conferences for the Family?

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

That’s what happened at the 2015 World Hepatitis Summit last September at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, where 550 attendees from 56 countries gathered to discuss global tactics in combating the disease responsible for 1.4 The exercise was, how do you do a crisis plan if you have an outbreak?”

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PCMA Convene

JULY 3, 2017

No matter how rousing it may be, if a call to action takes place during one of many sessions attendees go to during the course of a conference program, they’re likely to forget about following through on it. Lyon found the peer-pressure aspect of the exercise particularly effective. An AFBF attendee voting via cellphone.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Here are five trends and developments in meeting and conference formats that are aimed at letting attendees opt in: 1. Pomerleau points to cutting-edge events like the Collision tech conference and The Culture Conference that model that kind of honesty and respect for shared discourse. The trick is to make it fun.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Communication, information and content in meetings and conferences is often mostly the spoken word supported by visuals in text and photos. The simple idea is to make a small notebook, where there is both pre-written key messages and a mix of exercises that invites to either write or draw own thoughts, reflections and ideas.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It made clear the degree to which a painting is an exercise in imagination just as much as a novel or play — or a meeting or conference!

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