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Don’t keep me a secret!

Conferences that Work

For example: “Attendees want to connect with peers over shared challenges and specific topics.” So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who have purchased my books or the hundreds of clients who have benefited from my meeting design and facilitation services, please don’t keep me a secret!

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Working with suppliers and practitioners at meetings

Conferences that Work

First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.

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Share information; don’t hoard it

Conferences that Work

But I’m a consultant who has long subscribed to Jerry Weinberg’s Seventh Law of Marketing : “Give away your best ideas” and Credit Rule : “You’ll never accomplish anything if you care who gets the credit”, from his invaluable book The Secrets of Consulting. ” —Jeff Jarvis, Stop.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

Unfortunately, far too many event promoters either haven’t a clue about what an unconference is, or, worse, deliberately call their events unconferences when they aren’t. They use “unconference” as a marketing buzzword to make their event sound cooler. Let’s be clear.

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Review of Butter, a smooth meeting platform for facilitators

Conferences that Work

So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. In this review of Butter, I’ll share a big picture overview, what I think is Butter’s finest feature, an example of how to implement a meeting design in Butter, and my closing thoughts. Meeting design case.

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Event Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

Meeting Tomorrow

If you’re going to bring a bunch of people together, why not expand the scope of the event to include a lot of content and experiences that are loosely related. SXSW is the classic example, but this has often fallen flat in the corporate space.

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Offline Reading Tips for Event Managers

Converve

Why not then with one of these reading tips for event managers?! X: The Experience When Business Meets Design / Brian Solis. This can be seen clearly with such examples as Apple, Disney or LEGO. Behind exceptional experience design you’ll find technologies that can also be used at events. Link: [link].