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An Audience-First Approach to Meeting Design

SmartMeetings

As these experts work to understand changing consumer trends, preferences and behaviors, considerations must be made into meeting design to craft a truly relevant event, which target audiences will not want to miss. Consider these three key trends and how they can positively impact meeting design. Not sure where to start?

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3 Tips for Shifting to an Architectural Model for Meeting Design

Smart Meetings

Real meetings are all about content,” he says. You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”. The power of meetings depends on the human dynamics they are capable of unleashing.

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Free online Participate Lab — May 11, 2022

Conferences that Work

Human spectrograms: a simple tool for learning about other participants. Ask Adrian Anything: using a fishbowl sandwich to facilitate group discussion on meeting design and facilitation. The Conference Arc: Building connection while uncovering wants, needs, and resources. Creating the right program. Consolidating learning.

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New Research Considers Human-Centered Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

EVENT DESIGN. “My My first white paper, Mindful Event Design, was really driven around a physical sense of meeting design. Technology is only a tool — it’s not a result. And we’re also really curious around that question of moving away from ‘digital dementia’ and device overload.”.

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Review of Butter, a smooth meeting platform for facilitators

Conferences that Work

So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. In this review of Butter, I’ll share a big picture overview, what I think is Butter’s finest feature, an example of how to implement a meeting design in Butter, and my closing thoughts. The usual caveats. The finest Butter.

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Make your entire conference a braindate

Conferences that Work

.” The author, Julius Solaris , tweeted: “…braindates are in our top 10 trends for 2020…Too much of an undervalued tool and approach. Because good event design is about how a conference works. Time to end that.” ” — November 20, 2019 tweet.

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Why you should hire curious people

Conferences that Work

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. Hire curious people.