Virtual meetings lower costs. Yet I believe that the unique benefits of face-to-face meetings are still valuable.
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Virtual meetings lower costs. Yet I believe that the unique benefits of face-to-face meetings are still valuable.
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Every minute you're speaking solo at a conference session sucks up hours of people's lives. Is your content worth their time?
How can we create the best learning environment for meeting attendees? It turns out that trust and safety are prerequisites for optimum learning.
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Somewhere tonight: someone's at a door scanning tickets on their phone instead of squinting at a printed list, and someone just got approved off a waitlist thirty seconds before doors.
Small stuff. It's most of the job.
#eventprofs #boxoffice
Solve Problems Together: Liz Lathan's spin on my core peer conference process: The Three Questions
Taking time to publicly recognize the people who made your event possible is an easy thing to do and the right thing to do.
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#events #ThankingPeople #acknowledgement #appreciations #eventprofs #assnchat
Reflections on how the decades-old motto of an association encapsulates the power and empowerment of a peer conference to change lives
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There's a tension between improv and planning at events. Here's a good example: the rapid development of a closing conference evaluation.
Event's full? That's a waitlist now, not a dead end.
People join, you approve spots as they free up, nobody has to DM you asking if "maybe one more" is possible.
#eventprofs #ticketing
Who owns an event? I suggest that not only sponsors but also participants are event owners, since adding participants broadens the community.
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#meetings #EventDesign #ownership #sponsors #participants #community #eventprofs
You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to. Peer conferences provide such environments.
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How can we best prepare workers for our rapidly changing economy? By teaching people how to make new connections on a regular basis.
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#meetings #EventDesign #connections #NewEconomy #DanaBoyd #eventprofs #assnchat
The word "unconference" is increasingly used to describe traditional conferences. These aren't the unconferences you're looking for.
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#unconference #popularity #definition #PeerConference #eventprofs #assnchat
How can we encourage risky learning at conferences? By making them small, safe events where everyone is both a teacher and a student.
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#meetings #learning #RiskyLearning #confidentiality #events #eventprofs
Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
Three creative event design tools that all event professionals should use: resonant imagery, drawing, and guided journeys
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Running a festival, fireworks night or fête? Events with entry checks & 800+ people at once can fall into Martyn's Law's enhanced tier. #MartynsLaw #EventProfs https://f.mtr.cool/zk2lfd159r