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Good meeting design is cheaper than special effects

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Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meeting design. But the race to spend more and more on special effects…it might be worth more to take the time and invest the effort to design something great instead.” Seth Godin makes an analogous point in this post…. No related posts.

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Which meeting design books should I buy?

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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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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

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My work at a pre-con is different from that of a typical meeting planner since I focus on the meeting’s design and facilitation. I’ve been convening meetings for decades, though, so I know a fair amount about meeting planning. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

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Why Meetings Designed for Intention Win Out

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Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings. Skift Take: As people look for new reasons to attend events, some stand out by focusing more on the flow and less on the logistics.

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Make the meeting bigger!

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Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. One bright spot has been the normalization of online meetings for routine connection and collaboration. It ain’t necessarily so.

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Presentation versus interaction at meetings

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What is the mix of presentation versus interaction at your meetings? Traditional meetings focus heavily on presentation. Presentation versus interaction at meetings. But our meeting designs, in large part, haven’t changed to reflect this shift in cultural awareness. What should it be? The written word.

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Hub and spoke meetings

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Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? But first…. A terminology reminder.

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