@segar.comFreeman's Trends Report Q4 2024 is a must-read to discover if you're doing what's needed to improve your events for your attendees
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#eventprofs #EventTrends #EventDesign #AttendeeExperience #FutureOfEvents #leadership
@segar.comFor heaven's sake! Fake women conference speakers? Meeting professionals, we can do so much better! What we need is fake events!
@segar.comToday, the most successful conferences are micro conferences. So produce for and market to a micro conference market.
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#meetings #EventDesign #events #SmallMeetings #MicroConference #marketing #eventprofs
@segar.comHow we used ScribbleLive to create our live blog of PCMA Convening Leaders 2014
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#blogging #tool #LiveEvents #ScribbleLive #events #PCMACL #eventprofs
@segar.comDesign events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected
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#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs
@segar.comCan we do better than novelty at our meetings? Yes! Don't fob off your meeting attendees with new" or "different". Go for "better"!
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#meetings #EventDesign #novelty #better #different #eventprofs
@segar.comWe need to re-envisage event technology to significantly improve our events
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#meetings #EventTech #improvement #technology #events #eventprofs
@globalcrowds.bsky.social@segar.comIs paid influencer marketing ethical in the meeting industry? Frankly, I doubt that it's an ethical practice.
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#events #sponsor #sponsorship #EventMarketing #InfluencerMarketing #ethics #eventprofs
@segar.comRIP, Conference Curator! The fantasy of the conference curator is dead. Instead, let conference attendees choose conference content.
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#meetings #EventDesign #curation #myth #ParticipantDrivenEvents #eventprofs
@segar.comSupporting connection between participants at our events allows them to take full advantage of the collective wisdom in the room.
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#meetings #EventDesign #connection #ActiveLearning #SocialLearning #eventprofs
@segar.comI answer five questions about event process design, including: who designs the facilitation, what level of training is needed, and more…
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#meetings #EventDesign #AskAdrianAnything #ProcessDesign #eventprofs
@segar.comA glossary of 38 conference participation techniques that I cover in my book "The Power of Participation".
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#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #participation #SessionFormats #GroupWork #eventprofs
@letsrevel.bsky.socialSmall moments. They're most of what running an event feels like.
@segar.comHere are five fundamental questions about conference design. Have you answered them to your satisfaction for your events?
@segar.comHow can we make conferences better? Here are two suggestions, plus my comments, by Samantha Whitehorn of ASAE's Associations Now.
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#meetings #EventDesign #associations #concierge #connections #events #eventprofs #assnchat
@segar.comHow can we build connection and engagement with the people with whom we work? By giving up control over the choices they're offered.
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#meetings #EventDesign #GivingUpControl #choices #connection #engagement #eventprofs
@segar.comWhat makes attending conferences worthwhile? Some of the most useful conferences are those designed to solve participants' problems.
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@segar.comAssociations exist only in the mind. As evidence, here's the story of the birth of VISA, an association of tens of thousands of member banks.
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#associations #assnchat #eventprofs #VISA #CommunityOfPractice #agreements
@segar.comHow you program conferences depends (or ought to) on your answer to the question: Do conference attendees know what they want?
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#meetings #EventDesign #sessions #choice #ParticipantDriven #events #eventprofs
