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Being Present in the Age of the Mind Outside the Brain

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Read the full article at Conferences That Work 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. If you had told me then that the.

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Introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing

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Here’s a teaser: the introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need. I immigrated to the United States after falling in love with Vermont, a rural state with no opportunity to continue the big-lab science path I’d been traveling. Interested? Then buy the book !

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How to facilitate a community discussion using fishbowl

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My task: design and facilitate a two-hour community discussion in response to a bombshell announcement made by the largest employer in my tiny rural hometown of Marlboro, Vermont. All three of these techniques are covered in detail in my latest book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.).

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The top educational meeting format

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

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You can’t make people change. But…

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Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. If you had told me then that the.

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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

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Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer. Great — a client who doesn’t know what they want! Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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Two free easy ways to create graphics for blog posts and presentations

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In addition, I frequently present at meeting industry events and to clients. Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. As they tell you in SEO School, every post has at least one image.

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