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The top educational meeting format

Conferences that Work

April 2018, Meetings and Conventions Magazine Do you incorporate participatory sessions into your events? In contrast, that’s way ahead of their second choice: Professional speakers delivering presentations (58%). Smart conference producers incorporate participatory sessions into their events.

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?

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Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings

Conferences that Work

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. If you had told me then that the.

Meetings 190
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What’s most important about an event, the gift or the wrapping?

Conferences that Work

While writing about seeing the gifts in people and events I remembered one of my favorite scenes in Love Actually (2003). Discussing this amusing scene, my wife pointed out that the two components of a present, a gift and a wrapping , suggest a metaphor for an event. Watch the 2-minute video clip. ?

2003 190
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Learning in community at conferences

Conferences that Work

At traditional events, expert speakers broadcast content at attendees. Related posts: A birthday present for you on the 21st anniversary of Conferences That Work What a long strange trip it’s been The first Conferences That Work event was held June 3–5, 1992, at Marlboro College, Vermont.

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Raccoon Media Group expands Outdoor Expo portfolio into Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Prestige Events Magazine

The new expo for those who love activities outdoors will add to the two existing consumer expos, The Boston Run Show and Snowbound Expo for winter sports, bolstering the company’s standing in the Boston sport’s event market with the goal of getting more people outside & active. The Sports Hub.

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The job you’ll be doing in the future hasn’t been invented yet

Conferences that Work

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. IBM introduced the PC in 1981. Now it’s the most common way authors publish.)

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