Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation. In Gatherly, the tool I had to address this issue was text chat.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement.

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The MICE

JULY 27, 2022

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). One of the talks that impressed me the most was ‘Participant experience design – how do we create meetings which move people more deeply?’

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Conferences that Work

MAY 22, 2023

Hey everyone, especially educators who teach courses on meetings and hospitality. It is critical to understand how to design conferences and events effectively. In addition to providing access to my books, VitalSource also offers valuable tools for instructors. appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Martin, welcome! Martin Duffy: Well, good afternoon.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 1, 2018

Many of these discoveries have a huge impact on best practices for holding meetings and conferences, and, in turn, how we think about what it means to be engaged in a meeting setting. This means the tone of a meeting or event can change dramatically based on one person’s mood. Impact on Happiness and Creativity.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, Sounds crazy, yes, but stay with me! The online portion.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

During an event, the easiest way to keep the momentum going is to live tweet. Posts can range from takeaways from keynotes, photos of the event, or a heads up to your location in order to meet other event attendees. Join the movement for a better event. Room Design. Try Social Tables today.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Tracking event industry trends is a favorite activity here at Meeting Tomorrow. Rising: AR/VR at events. As a bonus, this format also seems to encourage much higher usage of digital engagement tools as a unifying platform which means as a planner, there is more data to help you improve the next meeting.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. From more engaging, holistic experiences to the the bold new expectations of “bleisure,” event planners and suppliers are racing to adapt in an industry that’s as dynamic as it’s ever been. C2 is pushing the envelope for event experiences.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In 2004, he pioneered cultural branding as a powerful new strategy tool in his international best-selling book How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding and two supporting articles in the Harvard Business Review. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In 2004, he pioneered cultural branding as a powerful new strategy tool in his international best-selling book How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding and two supporting articles in the Harvard Business Review. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

In the beginning, we looked at what was on the market and saw that many online event platforms attempt to mimic real life. We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. For example, the question this time will be, ‘What would your event of the future look like using gamification in 2030?’

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Another feature that could be useful when in stage presentation mode is that Rally allows the meeting host to randomly shuffle table occupants into tables of 2, 3, or 4 people. However, the room size limit to the number of people who can listen to folks on stage currently limits Rally to a presentation tool for small audiences.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Say you are preparing for a meeting, or a conference, or a class, or a banquet, or a wedding, and you want to optimize the venue or space you are using so that the seating and tables are set up for the best attendee experience. Every event has a unique set of objectives when it comes to what you are trying to accomplish.

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Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

Facebook Finds a New Event Rival in Pinterest. Facebook has long been known as a major platform for planning and promoting events, but a new challenger now wants in on the action. Pinterest has just launched new tools that allow professionals to plan events on the platform. Can You Earn from Your Event’s Live Video?

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

Use the right online tools that will get the most bang out of your event bucks. Also, it pays to know about event AV, since it’s one of the most pricey assets for your event but can have the biggest payoff. Online Tools to Make Registration a Breeze. Embracing the Weirdness of Meetings. Click To Tweet.

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