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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. While Zoom is currently missing some functionality that would smooth the process flow, it’s already a viable platform for online peer conferences. The big picture.

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The Conference Arc — the key components of every successful participation-rich conference

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Traditional conferences focus on a hodgepodge of pre-determined sessions punctuated with socials, surrounded by short welcomes and closings. Such conference designs treat openings and closings as perfunctory traditions, perhaps pumped up with a keynote or two, rather than key components of the conference design.

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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. First, read the detailed instructions on how to run The Three Questions which you’ll find in my books : Event Crowdsourcing [2019] (Chapter 18) [recommended: most comprehensive and recent information]. Learn about The Three Questions.

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

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Part 1 of this series of posts gave an overview of what’s involved in implementing participant-driven breakouts in Zoom, and Part 2 explained how to prepare for The Three Questions. Part 3 describes how to run them using Zoom breakout rooms, and Part 4 covers how to create an optimum conference program.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 3

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Part 2 explains how to prepare for The Three Questions using Zoom breakout rooms. In this post (Part 3) I’ll cover how to run The Three Questions using Zoom breakout rooms. Here’s an example of a topic list created at a technical conference. covered how to run The Three Questions online in Zoom. Conclusion.

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How to inspire transformational learning

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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. It is one.

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

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Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. How do I hate thee? 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. Let me count the ways. first published in 1972 !