Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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Meeting Design Negotiating 2010 Technology 293

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. Obvious problems (“known knowns”) have known solutions, often called “best practice” For example, how do I: Determine what employee data to store in the human resources system?

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Creating a space design where the atmosphere and physical set-up immediately embraces the participants with a feeling of comfort and safety is the best start to a meeting that you can give your participants. The design of the physical meeting space should also be seen as the body language of a meeting.

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Meetings Meeting Design Travel Conference 62

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 2, 2021

For the first fully hybrid National Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors meeting on May 14, the leadership met together in Chicago, while around 800 directors were remote. And that means that a lot of voting takes place — complicated enough to handle at an in-person meeting and challenging for an online meeting.

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Meetings Government Conference Management 98

Conferences that Work

JUNE 4, 2018

There’s no longer any reason to pick either positional or network era power; we can create systems that incorporate the best features of both. Here’s Harold Jarche again: “…it is up to all of us to keep working on new structures and systems. This is perhaps the only great work to be done for the next few decades.

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Consulting Meeting Design Conference Meetings 165

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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Event Industry News

JUNE 11, 2019

Five of the most promising start-ups in the meetings technology sector have been shortlisted for the 2019 Future of Meetings Award. Exclusively open to businesses which have been in the market for three years or less, the Future of Meetings Award offers a springboard to launching new products and services to the meetings industry.

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Meetings 2019 Meeting Design Event Tech 54

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? I learned about this new and improved form of the Q&A during a chat I had earlier in the year with Maarten Vanneste , president of the Belgium-based Meeting Design Institute. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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2020 Meetings 2019 Sustainability 128

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 4, 2022

This arrangement works especially well given the Italian medical system, Sambugaro said. In a post on his Conferences that Work blog , conference designer Adrian Segar writes: “If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings.

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Conference Design Hotels Conference Hospitality 98

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Lecturing has been the core modality in our education systems for centuries. Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. Conclusion.

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2012 Speakers Education 2019 213

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. Besides a new convention center, MAPS 3 will add a 70-acre downtown park and a streetcar system, which is already underway.

Marketing 81

Marketing Meetings Social Media 2013 81

PCMA Convene

MAY 19, 2021

Meeting designer and author Adrian Segar also has sounded an alarm over the lack of attention to venue ventilation and what he called a “misdirected” focus on surface cleaning. Adrian Segar. Segar, who has a Ph.D. Jessica Cooper.

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Venues 2021 2020 Government 111

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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Education Transportation Hospitality Events 157

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. J: Marketing.

Meetings 62

Meetings Food and Beverage Risk Management Contracts 62

Ins'Tent

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Printing and Design Best Practices Using PMS Colors for Vibrancy When designing your custom canopy, using Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors ensures consistency and vibrancy in the final product. Style Guides and Meeting Deadlines Provide the design team with a comprehensive style guide to maintain brand consistency.

Consulting 40

Consulting Trade Shows Financial Marketing 40

Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

Up Your Learning and Event Networking Experience at Meetings. Aside from the experience, there are two more major things you expect meeting attendees to take home: knowledge and new opportunities. That’s why it is important to design your meetings for event networking. Click To Tweet.

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Tech Events Meetings 2018 80

SmartMeetings

MARCH 1, 2018

Managing an event may not require rocket science, but successfully engaging with attendees does require manipulating the properties of neuroscience, the study of the nervous system, particularly the brain. 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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Event Industry News

MAY 3, 2019

These are already finding their way onto show floors and into event meeting spaces, though these experts generally agree that current applications are just scratching the surface of what’s possible. ” — Christy Lamagna , CEO of Strategic Meetings & Events. ” — Corbin Ball , Founder at Corbin Ball & Co.

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Event Technology Technology 2019 Consulting 111

Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Connect are dedicated to providing content that helps you reimagine today’s meetings and look into the future. There are plenty of insights into venues and how to improve meetings, but we want to give a shout-out to Connect for their continued insights into the ever-important topic of event safety. The Meeting Pool.

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Trade Shows Food and Beverage Tech Education 133

Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2019

These are already finding their way onto show floors and into event meeting spaces, though these experts generally agree that current applications are just scratching the surface of what’s possible. ” — Christy Lamagna , CEO of Strategic Meetings & Events. ” — Corbin Ball , Founder at Corbin Ball & Co.

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Event Technology Technology 2019 Consulting 111

SpotMe Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Strategic meetings management is a concept that’s over 20 years old but has recently taken on a new form. The meetings and events industry has evolved, and planners now have a seat at the omnichannel table, where data-driven insights and attendee experiences are top of mind. The time for strategic meetings management is now.

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Management Meetings Risk Management Technology 130

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Kennedy has taught his Magnetic Marketing System to over 6 million people around the world. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Kennedy has taught his Magnetic Marketing System to over 6 million people around the world. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

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Speakers Healthcare Consulting Financial 98

SmartMeetings

JULY 4, 2020

Smart Meetings asked industry leaders from the front lines of hotels, event venues and creators, transportation, travel, networking, wellness and sustainability to share their commitments and challenges for keeping everyone safe and connected. Having said that, I think the return to meetings will be both slow and fast.

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Food and Beverage Hotels Travel Contracts 114

Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

With more than a decade of experience as a professional speaker, Dahlia founded The Meeting Pool , a great source of information for event professionals. She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015.

Trade Shows 119

Trade Shows Social Media Consulting B2B 119

Slido

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those who sign up, receive only vague advance cues about the film, dress code, and a meeting point. It solves some of their most common problems: Lack of breakout space – wireless headphone systems enable delegates in a single room to break off into smaller groups and uninterruptedly listen to different presentations.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

They faced the task of enabling an eco-system for over 1,500 people spread all over the world to work together and collaborate to solve complex challenges. Collaborating on such complex challenges requires ‘moving away from ego-systems to eco-systems with all the players.’. And we really wanted to bring that online.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels.

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2019 Meetings Hotels Venues 167

Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

Both properties and planners need to create consistent systems that minimize communicative pain points, doing so through a mix of smart internal processes and innovative technologies that streamline them. 56% of event professionals believe health and wellness programs impact the overall success of meetings.

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Hotels Food and Beverage Negotiating Venues 149