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

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Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

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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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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

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I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Well, it’s not.

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27 years of peer conferences

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The first peer conference I convened and designed was held June 3 – 5, 1992 at Marlboro College, Vermont. on participant-driven, participation-rich meeting design; and plentiful ongoing opportunities to fulfill my mission to facilitate connection between people. That’s 3 x 3 x 3.

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Why you should hire curious people

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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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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

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This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.” 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. The social and cultural differences that shaped our frequent meetings fascinated me. Interested? Then buy the book ! I’ve always been curious. I’ve always wanted to understand the world I found myself living in.