Eventtia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

On Wednesday, October 21st Spitche, MeltinLab, and Eventtia will be joining forces to host Get Together , a summit for marketers seeking new ways to connect, build communities, and create powerful experiences, all online.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 24, 2021

Are online meetings reducing our collective intelligence [CI] ? New research about online meetings. ” — Speaking out of turn: How video conferencing reduces vocal synchrony and collective intelligence. Where I disagree, however, is how the researchers extend their experimental findings to everyday online meetings.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

That observation is at the heart of a new study that Sperstad, program director of the meeting and event management degree at Madison College, is writing with Amanda Cecil, Ph.D., Our goal is to pique curiosity and to shed light in areas that [meeting professionals] wouldn’t normally think of.”. CSR AND LEGACY.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 11, 2021

Today, meeting and event planners are pressed to do more with less while being expected to raise the bar on experiences year-over-year. In addition, they’re asked to achieve a variety of goals for a range of stakeholders and prove the value of their meetings or events. Define how the meeting will drive results.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Companies bombard me with offers to check out online meeting platforms. Butter is an online meeting platform that is designed to support the facilitation of great interactive meetings. So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. The usual caveats. Butter — the big picture.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2022

Here’s a rare opportunity to ask me anything about meeting design and facilitation at a unique, free, online workshop. You’ll learn through doing, both about other participants and how to implement what you experience into your own events. Meet, workshop with, and learn from other event professionals.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings. From small, high-level, high-stakes get-togethers to association regional and national meetings of every size. But what most event owners don’t know is how to satisfy them. In-person, online, and hybrid.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. So here’s my story.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 28, 2021

Here’s my Powerful Panels interview with good friend and meeting panel doyen Kristin Arnold. During our 25 minutes together, we discussed various panel formats, their value, and how to structure and design powerful panel discussions into the larger context of meetings, conferences, and events. 0:00 Introduction.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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Conferences that Work

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 ). The story is told in the book’s preface.)

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 13, 2018

Yes, most every meeting has after-the-fact attendee evaluations. Instead, content-involved planners must develop both on-site evaluations and post-event evaluations that determine how much the meeting furthered the specific goals and objectives of the executive stakeholders who own the meeting.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? One of the main reasons for business events or meetings is to deliver some kind of information.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you had told me forty years ago, a freshly minted high-energy particle physics postdoc, that I’d go on to have four additional careers (owner of a solar manufacturing business, computer science professor, independent IT consultant, and meeting designer/facilitator) I wouldn’t have believed you. The solar energy company.

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Gallus Events

MAY 15, 2017

How to cope with delegates leaving early. Meeting design. The post delegates leaving early how to cope appeared first on Gallus Events. I know this isn’t the case for other planners, but in terms of benchmarking: If your conference thins out by 25% after the final refreshment break YOU ARE DOING FINE. .

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 19, 2022

We should all be looking for the best tools, resources, designations, and skills to acquire into our professional toolkit, but we know this can be an overwhelming and time-consuming feat. These designations and certifications will demonstrate your well-roundedness and expertise in all things events.

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Plan Your Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Meetings are an important tool in any business, but they can often go awry. Poorly planned meetings can cause more harm than good. So how can you improve meeting outcomes and what is the best way to get the most out of your team? Same meeting rooms, same meetings.

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Gallus Events

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

A lot of venues tend to be designed, almost as an after thought, for events. As well as a poor location for the meeting space, they are designed to be an as “inoffensive” as possible and to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. The post How to make the most of a unique venue appeared first on Gallus Events.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. But Julius didn’t see them catch on and now focuses on other aspects of the meeting industry. Venue room capacity charts don’t include these designs.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 5, 2016

From books that take an irreverent approach to meeting planning to comprehensive guides on everything from meeting design to green events , this reading list has everything the modern meeting planner needs for a relaxing day of poolside reading. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design.

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Endless Events

JUNE 21, 2019

To kick things off, Melissa begins by giving us some interesting facts: “With meeting planners, it’s predominantly… there are a lot more women than men in the industry. For an interesting chat about mentorship and sexual harassment, we welcomed Rhonda Brewer from BCD Meetings & Events.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 7, 2021

Why am I writing about social learning on a blog that’s (mainly) about meeting design? Which means, to create the best meetings we need to maximize the social learning that takes place. Instead, build social learning into your meetings as much as possible. Humans’ true superpower. Humankind , Rutger Bregman.

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JUNE 12, 2023

It includes the stories of 66 “talented connectors” who share insights on how they create transformative experiences. The primary professions of the collaboration artists the authors include are wide-ranging—to say the least.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

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. FLIPPED LEARNING.

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Gallus Events

JULY 1, 2019

We then jumped into the details of how to make online events sparkle! Within the 60 minutes I focussed on these three important areas: How to ensure your content is as good as it can be. How to ensure you have as much online engagement as possible and. How you ensure you have the correct objectives. Engage your audience.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2019

For more info on how to get CE credits, click here ! Deepen engagement and increase retention at your meetings by embracing three fundamental shifts in the attendee experience. This fundamental shift changes the way we think about everything from our meeting spaces to our speaker content. Moving from static to active meetings.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

After I talked about my meeting design work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. It’s fascinating how you can really trust in the system. That’s the way to improve meetings!

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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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EventMB

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The post How to Know if Gamification is Right For Your Event by QuickMobile appeared first on [link]. And it’s not only in the events industry—gamification has a major presence in any field where motivation and engagement is a factor of success. It’s about more than just playing games. Applying game […].

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Same goes for meetings format. Most of the meetings today are still about people sitting down and listening to one or more speakers. And in this information age of declining attention span, it is not a surprise to see that 73% of people acknowledge doing other work during meetings. .

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 19, 2019

Important insights into health-care professionals (HCPs) and tips on how to host an event that will attract and retain them were among the highlights of Jocelyn Cote’s recent Smart Meetings webinar. They just can’t get enough education, and meetings play a vital role in HCP’s career-long quest for education,” she says.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 7, 2022

When time is short and the to-do list is long, the solution is often to bring in an expert contractor to help with everything from sourcing of space and technology solutions to meeting design and management. Architects learned long ago how to bid on a project without sketching out where the toilets and light fixtures should go.

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EventMB

AUGUST 22, 2018

We all seem to get what that means, but how do we translate such an important concept to practice? The post How to Design Experiences in 2018 [Free Report] by EventMB Team appeared first on [link]. We bring you one of the most complete guides to kickstart your transition […].

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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. and the details of how I typically run this format here.

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EventMB

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Yet some organizations and clients insist upon a ‘design by committee’ approach, which possibly compromises your reputation. So how do you avoid turning out a mediocre event when you’re not […]. The post How to Navigate the Dreaded Design by Committee Event by EventMB Team appeared first on [link].

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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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