How do you market a new peer conference? Here's an example of marketing language you can use to address potential attendee concerns.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/dear-adrian/2013/09/market-new-peer-conference
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Stay on time! How not keeping to your conference schedule plays havoc with your attendees' meeting experience and satisfaction.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/03/stay-on-time
Tired of attendees making statements during question time? Here's how to handle a meeting question that isn't actually a question.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/01/handling-questions
Event design is not just visuals and logistics. Event design is about process design that can significantly improve meetings.
How can we incorporate exercise into event programs? Four suggestions: walking maps, standing-in-place exercise, walking sessions, and Grab!
A casual remark during a client debrief teaches me how to improve the human spectrogram maps I've been running for decades.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2025/04/human-spectrogram-maps
Supporting connection between participants at our events allows them to take full advantage of the collective wisdom in the room.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/04/supporting-connection
William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/02/the-difference-engine
How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
A casual remark during a client debrief teaches me how to improve the human spectrogram maps I've been running for decades.
#newpost #eventdesign #IncrementalImprovement #HumanSpectrograms
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2025/04/human-spectrogram-maps
My fourth post on implementing participant-driven breakouts in Zoom. Here's how to process participant input to create an optimum program.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/06/process-participant-information
Event complexity requires both leading and following. Confront attendees with their power to influence, as well as to exercise their freedom.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/03/event-complexity
What's the right way to vote? Asking your audience to raise hands may seem straightforward, but presenters often do this incorrectly.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/presentations/2012/06/the-right-way-to-vote-part-1
Hack the peak-end rule to maximize conference impact by including many different kinds of short experiences in our events
Copenhagen workshop video: I demo how to use human spectrograms to shed light on participants' viewpoints and circumstances.
Do beats Show and Tell. Multi-sensory environments improve our ability to learn, requiring us to be active participants in our learning.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/09/do-beats-show-and-tell
Event planners often overlook the importance of attendee conversations. Why? For a clue, read this ad promoting telephones in the 1900s!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2025/02/attendee-conversations/
In 2011, I wrote about why hybrid events "aren't going away". Tech has significantly improved since then…but the article is still relevant.
"Any questions?" How often have you heard this at the end of a conference session? Here are better ways for audiences to learn than the traditional Q&A.
#meetings #EventDesign #improvement #Q&A #lectures #eventprofs
Freeman'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
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/10/freeman-trends-report
