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MAY 22, 2023

Hey everyone, especially educators who teach courses on meetings and hospitality. My ebooks are now available on VitalSource , the largest global supplier of digital course materials to higher education! And, of course, if you or your students prefer, my ebooks are still available for purchase directly from this website.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

And , dear reader, get 20% off my ebooks until the end of the year! Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. I’m looking back on 2023.

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APRIL 3, 2023

TLDR There will be a significant price increase for my ebooks on April 15th. Buy my ebooks before April 15th and save a lot of money. Stock up on my ebooks before the price increases on April 15th! Dear Readers, I’m writing to share some important news regarding my ebooks. on April 15, 2023. on April 15, 2023.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).

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Guidebook

APRIL 10, 2015

It includes all of the great articles and eBooks that Guidebook has put out into the world on various event planning subjects, but now we’ll round it out by listing the best event planning books. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design by Mike van der Vijver.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

One of the things we encourage people to do is to consider the impact of non-traditional designs on their program: multiple room sizes, innovative setups and out of breakout sessions, to name but a few. of The Thrival Institute studied the conundrum of meeting design and found that there isn’t a one size fits all set up.

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JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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