Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These two quotes are from my posts on the parallels between the evolution of journalism and events (2015) and on the parallel missions of journalism and participant-driven and participation-rich events (2018).] What the internet changes is our relationship with the public we serve…What is the proper relationship for journalists to the public?

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

High-tech user conferences like Dreamforce and Microsoft Ignite have been designing innovative hub spaces to engage and nurture their top customers for years. Our team got together for a strategy session and put on our design-thinking hats. Scientific conferences can include e-posters and poster discussions.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

As conference organizers, it can be helpful to consider our responsibilities from the viewpoint of duty of care — the legal definition of which is “a requirement that a person [or organization] act[s] toward others and the public with the watchfulness, attention, caution and prudence that a reasonable person in the circumstances would use.

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MARCH 29, 2023

The 2023 WBENC National Conference included three amazing days full of networking, connections, and insights at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN. There are so many things to highlight about this important event that promotes diversity and equity in business, but here are our top five.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The other day, a client booked an hour with me to discuss how to make their conference better. Thinking about our conversation afterward, I realized that all my recommendations involved six fundamental processes that, when implemented well and appropriately, will make any conference better.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 30, 2020

If you’re inbox is anything like mine, you could spend a good portion of our day consuming webinars, virtual events and networking in Zoom or Facebook Messenger Happy Hours. The dynamics that we’re seeing impact conferences and their business models are very similar to the Freemium movement we experienced way back in 2009.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I have written many posts about lessons from Anguilla gleaned during our visits, and this trip uncovered more. The trip For the first time in many years, Celia and I stayed in Anguilla without company. Here’s the view from the large deck outside our apartment. And here’s the view from the lower deck.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 15, 2023

IStock Photo by cyano66 Before the pandemic, one could argue that jobs with life-and-death consequences were surely more stressful than planning an annual conference. Meanwhile, nearly every article I read or industry panel I attend is proclaiming that our industry is nearing a full recovery. But things have changed. Price increases.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 20, 2023

Are you obsessed with conferences? Yet no vice bedevils me like my one desperate fixation, my shameful ravening itch: I simply must attend conferences. George Meyer , My Undoing: Obsessed with conferences , The New Yorker, May 28, 2007 Of course, every good meeting planner is fixated on the details of the events we plan.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A teacher recently advised our daily meditation group to seek “connection free from attachment” This is a wise practice for me. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Connection, attachment, and meetings appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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Eventmobi

MAY 1, 2024

The first step to running successful association events is getting your members (and potential members!) Find out how you can use their platform year-round to continue to provide value to members, keep them engaged, and promote your annual conference so you don’t have to start your marketing back from zero each year.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Share the News: Spread the word among your colleagues, friends, and industry peers by sharing this post via the icons below. Encourage them to join in and support our collective efforts. Your vote is not just a vote for me but a vote for our shared commitment to innovation, excellence, and the future of the events industry.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 14, 2021

Why are our meetings still full of lectures? You could have one great teacher that’s in one of our specialized high schools teach 300-400 students…”. You could have one great teacher that’s in one of our specialized high schools teach 300-400 students…”. No related posts. It’s just the opposite.

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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. For the first fifty years of my life, I wrote very little. I would need every scrap of my conviction about the importance of peer conferences to persist in what followed. Write a book?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 20, 2021

As it becomes more apparent that face-to-face events will return in some form this year, conference organizers have an opportunity to make changes that would have been more difficult to sell up the ladder in the past. Long-term traditions can deter next-generation conference participants. Attendees have been drowning in content.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There’s never been a better time than right now to reimagine your education programming for your first in-person conference in some time, for many—in over two years. Conference education sessions have long been considered the main course of the event, yet typically they reek of status quo. That simply won’t work anymore.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s strive to live in our own imagination. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Live in your own imagination appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 23, 2020

During my career leading association event teams, I regularly recalibrated and redefined team member roles in order to drive innovation and improve our meeting experiences. Not every effort was a rousing success but attempting to inject new conference elements made us more nimble, creative and smarter as a team. Do virtual expos work?

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JUNE 1, 2023

It’s an incredible feeling to help our partners celebrate their remarkable milestones and celebrate them with the community. We have immense affection and gratitude for our clients and a deep passion for the work we do. W e want to thank our fantastic lineup of podcast speakers during these first 2 years of life.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 31, 2020

Please stop treating adults like children at your conferences. For an exception, see the end of this post.). Five minutes of Post It! So, please stop treating adults like children at conferences. That doesn’t mean filling our events with children’s games, singing, and water and sand play tables.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

According to The New York Times , living with the pandemic “has pushed us to reckon with our deepest questions … [about] how we make meaning of our time on this earth.” When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome. Here are some suggestions.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 10, 2024

Without a doubt, conference apps are a must-have tool for any event organizer. However, with so many different event apps for conferences on the market, it can be tough to know which one is right for you! What Is a Conference App? Before we dive into providers, you need to know what a conference app is.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 21, 2020

This is the fourth in a series of blogs posts, written collaboratively by our team, which uncover lessons learned in advising dozens of our clients on their events in the time of COVID-19. In our Conference Go/No-Go Decisions in a Pandemic post , we provided a framework for scenario planning.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 9, 2020

This is the second in a series of blogs posts, written collaboratively by our team, which uncover lessons learned in advising dozens of our clients on their events in the time of COVID-19. We like using an outside resource to set the scenario goal post. Scenario Planning. Fall Recovery – Extended contraction.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 25, 2022

Our time together at this Participate Lab will cover: Why creating participation-rich meetings is so important. The Conference Arc: Building connection while uncovering wants, needs, and resources. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Free online Participate Lab — May 11, 2022 appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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APRIL 8, 2024

.” Expressing Our Feelings In Public , April 5, 2010 Here are my personal experiences and observations. Thoughts, emotions, and feelings Our brains provide physiological experiences that we typically label as thoughts and emotions. Experiments show that thoughts and emotions originate in different places in our brains.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But is that all our meetings should be about? ” — Albert Einstein , 1921, during his first visit to the United States. If we want people to learn at our meetings , we need to concentrate on creating the best environment for learning : social learning , humans’ superpower. No related posts. Social learning.

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Eventmobi

JULY 26, 2022

The CSAE Annual National Conference. CSAE holds their national conference in a different Canadian city every October. The conference is a mix of speaker sessions, networking, exhibitor booths, and evening social events. CSAE has used EventMobi’s app over the past two years for their annual national conference.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Our pandemic war is an example of Satir’s model of change. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post The party after the war appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts. I hope that one day soon we will hold the party after the war. If the war ever ends.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Unfortunately, our meetings are still full of lectures. In my book Conferences That Work , I shared a story about when I—and everyone else in my graduate class—never admitted we didn’t understand what our teacher was teaching us for weeks. We quickly discovered, to our general relief, that none of us understood the class.

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Attendease

MARCH 7, 2024

Here’s an example of what this might look like: Say your organization is an association for dental hygienists and is planning a hybrid-style conference. This will encourage more people to click through and register for the conference. Part of your promotion strategy includes optimizing your event web page for SEO.

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Eventmobi

JULY 27, 2022

Simultaneous live hybrid conference and trade show. Increase not only revenue but profit: Because our strategic plan includes investing in and developing new programs, we can’t afford the declining registration numbers we see at other associations. Take care of our revenue partners: They’ve had a rough few years. Event Type.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. The massive disruption of in-person events since March 2020 has shaken our industry to the core. Our trade magazines mainly report on big events, the ones with big-name speakers and eye candy razzle-dazzle.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Feels great when you can help celebrate all these amazing women in our community and also help our clients reunite, reengage and build connections across the Americas. We love our clients and we love what we do. Here are some of our favorite events in March. first appeared on Innovate Marketing Group, Inc.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

My post on gamification last week garnered plenty of comments on LinkedIn. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Playing games, gamification, and the gulf between them appeared first on Conferences That Work. Like advertising’s liberal use of improved!

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 9, 2023

” —Adrian Segar, January 2021, Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences Someone I’ll call [MARKETING PERSON] clearly read this and decided to go the extra mile. That’s why we have introduced a new format, “Meet the Experts” for our 2023 show.’

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 18, 2020

Nearly all of our association clients are making enterprise-changing decisions to cancel or postpone their marquee events while saying goodbye to their primary revenue source. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of the individuals, families and businesses who are impacted by this crisis. Our intentions to assist are genuine.

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