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The effects of three centuries on our conferences
Our organizations are built on 19th century learning styles coupled by 20th century leadership models fused with 21st century technologies —Dan Pontefract, Future of Work Replace “organizations” with...
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Conferences are containers for ideas
“Books, those bound paper documents, are part of an ecosystem, one that was perfect, and one that is dying, quickly… …We still need ideas, and ideas need containers.” —Seth Godin, An End of Books...
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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design
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.Well, it’s not.Here are (drum roll!) two meeting types...
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What your conference evaluations are missing
One of the easiest, yet often neglected, ways for meeting professionals to improve their craft is to obtain (and act on!) client feedback after designing/producing/facilitating an event. So I like to...
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Three differences between genuine and phony experiential conferences
“Experiential” is the new hot adjective used to describe events. “No more listening to speakers; you’re going to have experiences!”Sadly, many of these so-called experiential events are phony. The...
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I have great respect and admiration for those event designers who can make conferences memorable by creating spectacle and wonder through a creative fusion of decor, environment, flow, entertainment,...
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Obsessed with conferences
Hey, meeting planners! Yes, you, you know who you are. Are you obsessed with conferences? Well…hopefully not to the same extent as George Meyer. Speedboats have been a lifelong diversion. Scotch, a...
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