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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As PTK converted its three-day conference to a two-day virtual event, it concentrated on the content most important to participants and sponsors, she said. “We PTK, which is based in Jackson, Mississippi, hired Orlando-based TEK Productions to produce the event. How do we translate content to a virtual platform?

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MAY 11, 2020

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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OCTOBER 10, 2016

In less than three minutes, you can improve almost any conference session with pair share. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. More details can be found in Chapter 38 of The Power of Participation.). How do you use pair share? Share with everyone in the comments below! Sources for additional information.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Training associations how to create powerful and effective participant-driven and participation-rich conferences is one of the most rewarding aspects of my work: I love facilitating the learning that occurs, and the organization is then equipped with the process tools needed to transform their events.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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JULY 10, 2017

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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APRIL 3, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Related posts: 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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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Events Industry Council (EIC) in partnership with its global EIC Equity Task Force, released the results of its 2022 Equity Benchmarking Study at an IMEX press conference. The survey reveals widespread DEI dissatisfaction amongst event professionals, minority groups, and women. Orlando Launches Inspirational Umbrella Campaign.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. It is one.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Read testimonials for Event Crowdsourcing here. Pre-order Event Crowdsourcing (ebook or paperback) at the lowest possible price here ! Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Event Crowdsourcing free chapters! appeared first on Conferences That Work. Lab at The EVENT, April 4-6, Montréal!

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JUNE 19, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. It is one.

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MAY 29, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Related posts: 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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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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JUNE 15, 2020

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.

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MAY 21, 2018

Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants. The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary.

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MAY 25, 2020

Here’s an example of a topic list created at a technical conference. Ask your facilitators to read Chapter 18 of Event Crowdsourcing or Chapters 31 & 32 of The Power of Participation so they are familiar with running The Three Questions. Three Questions facilitator training. Conclusion. It is one.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Events Industry Council (EIC) in partnership with its global EIC Equity Task Force, released the results of its 2022 Equity Benchmarking Study at an IMEX press conference. The survey reveals widespread DEI dissatisfaction amongst event professionals, minority groups, and women. Orlando Launches Inspirational Umbrella Campaign.

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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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MAY 19, 2016

When 19,000 attendees descended on Orlando this week for SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference — hosted by SAP and ASUG (America’s SAP Users’ Group) and billed as the largest global business technology event — they weren’t dreading long registration and check-in lines at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC). .

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Here’s a real-life example of how to crowdsource a conference program in real-time. In May 2017 Liz Lathan, Tom Spano, and Nicole Osibodu invited me to design and facilitate the session crowdsourcing at the first Haute Dokimazo unconference in Austin, Texas. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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MAY 23, 2016

Here’s a list, taken from a glossary of participation techniques covered in detail in my book The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Body/Continuum Voting : See Human Spectrograms. Near Atlanta? I’ll.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When a group in the health-care and medical-research industry meeting at the Hilton Orlando needed an in-house broadcast studio, it turned the camera on the property’s Lake Eola room. . The group used the studio to broadcast live coverage throughout the conference and back to its home office.

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MAY 31, 2016

Two common examples are dot voting (described in detail in Chapter 49 of The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action ) and crowdsourcing techniques involving group posting of written notes on walls or tables. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. It is one.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

When I facilitate longer conferences I can assure you that almost everyone will ask questions in public at some point during the event. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. It’s possible to create amazing learning and connection though approaches I’ve outlined above. Conclusion. I’ll. It is one.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Nook has been added to the post-Covid portfolios of FIRA Barcelona, RAI Amsterdam, Frankfurt Messe, and Business Design Centre London among others. Long-term vision.

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JULY 18, 2016

I’m in San Antonio, Texas, having just run two 90-minute “panels” at a national association leadership conference. At the conference sessions I design and facilitate, everyone is “up there” instead of “down here.” Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Panelist time!

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

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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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The week of the conference happened to be an away week for MLB’s Padres, so the stadium was available for set-up and tear-down time. I reimagined what the virtual experience should be versus taking in-person design and making it virtual. Snapshot of a Verified Safe Event for All in Orlando. We got lucky,” said Graziano.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

I happened to stay at two Four Seasons hotels during one week in May — the Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort and the Four Seasons Houston. In Orlando, I had used the jacket flap of a hardcover book I was reading to mark my page and left my book next to the bed.

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JUNE 16, 2016

More than 2,000 meeting professionals met in Atlantic City, New Jersey, earlier this week for MPI’s 2016 World Education Congress , three days of education and networking at the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center. How many times have you ever had anything major happen in a convention center?” Herrera asked. “A

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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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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2016

But six years ago, the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) decided to completely revamp the organization’s annual events and find a way to make banking more dynamic. That meant that CBA was in “conference mode” for nearly the entire year, Hunt said, sapping staff bandwidth and creating redundancies around everything from travel to F&B.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 9, 2017

We tend to focus on corporate marketing events in terms of their value to attendees and exhibitors, but there’s another important stakeholder group: a company’s sales team. How can you design an event that makes their jobs easier?

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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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JUNE 8, 2020

In this post (Part 4) I’ll cover Step #2 — how to process the participant information uncovered in Step #1 to create an optimum conference program. Part 5, the last in this series explains how to run your peer conference using Zoom breakout rooms. Creating and convening your conference program group.

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JULY 30, 2018

Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Helping me find a wonderful.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 11, 2021

Between the AMC Institute Annual several weeks ago in Orlando and our own three [recent] in-person gatherings in three different cities, the buzz and volume as folks were seeing each other after so long was strong — sometimes deafening, but in a good way. Conference of Mayors. We got a chance to get in front of 2,000 U.S.

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