#eventdesign — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eventdesign, aggregated by home.social.
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The third in my series of 5 posts on how to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom. Here, I explain how to run "The Three Questions" online.
#meetings #EventDesign #OnlineMeeting #PeerConference #TheThreeQuestions #Zoom #eventprofs
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Unconferences are thriving—and well-designed and facilitated events endure. But why aren't unconferences more popular? Here are six reasons.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/09/unconferences-popular
#meetings #EventDesign #unconferences #PeerConferences #popularity #eventprofs #assnchat
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An example of successful viral work: I share what happens when the audience can't stop talking about what they just experienced.
#meetings #EventDesign #ViralWork #example #TheSolutionRoom #eventprofs #assnchat
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Do they want to be here? You are leading a workshop, conference, or session. How can you best serve people who don't want to be there?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2021/08/want-to-be-here
#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #workshop #BeingHere #engagement #eventprofs #assnchat
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Not long ago, I designed and facilitated an online workshop that was marred by technical difficulties. Luckily, it didn't matter.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2022/09/technical-difficulties
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We live in a container culture that fetishizes form over experience, the funeral over the dead. What if events centered on connection, learning, and human meaning instead?
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You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to. Peer conferences provide such environments.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/09/cant-make-people-change
#meetings #EventDesign #FacilitatingChange #PeerConferences #safety #support #ParticipationRich #freedom #eventprofs
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Here are four unquestioned assumptions that lay at the heart of a traditional conference format
#meetings #EventDesign #assumptions #TraditionalConference #eventprofs
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Here is a real-life comparison of pre-conference and at-conference crowdsourcing at a peer conference (aka #unconference)
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This video of a Personal Introspective illustrates why I love conference facilitation and design
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/love-meeting-facilitation-design
#meetings #love #EventDesign #facilitation #video #connection #learning #eventprofs
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If you aren't getting excellent audience engagement, don't blame the audience! Change the session processes you use to guarantee engagement.
#meetings #EventDesign #engagement #connection #workshop #eventprofs
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How to make your workshop/meeting/conference middle-aged friendly? Consider participants' memory, vision, hearing, physicality, and content.
#meetings #EventDesign #MiddleAgedFriendly #memory #vision #hearing #physicality #content #eventprofs
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What's the best way to hold a discussion with hundreds of attendees? A fishbowl sandwich can really get your attendees talking!
#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #fishbowl #FishbowlSandwich #PairShare #facilitation #eventprofs
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Meeting planners try to minimize surprises. But incorporating planned surprises into our events can improve attendees' experience and learning. Here are three examples.
#meetings #EventDesign #surprise #SurprisingMeetings #eventprofs
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If your event had a mouth, what would it say? How to use powerful visualization techniques to uncover client meeting objectives.
#meetings #EventDesign #visualization #MeetingObjectives #eventprofs
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Meetings in Day Million will be different from those today. Remember that when a meeting designer proposes something crazy. It may be the future's normal.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/03/meetings-in-day-million
#meetings #ScienceFiction #SciFi #EventDesign #future #eventprofs
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Ever experienced a collision of agreements? Here's an example — and what I learned — during a one-day workshop with 24 college presidents.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/09/collision-agreements
#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #agreements #conflicts #eventprofs
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Three creative event design tools that all event professionals should use: resonant imagery, drawing, and guided journeys
#meetings #EventDesign #CreativeTools #ResonantImagery #Dixit #GuidedJourneys #drawing #eventprofs
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Why you should provide clearings for your event. Physical, freedom, and permission clearings make space for something new to happen.
#meetings #EventDesign #physical #freedom #permission #clearings #events #eventprofs
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An interview with journalist Jeff Jarvis highlights some of the fascinating parallels in the ways that journalism and events are evolving
#journalism #EventDesign #events #meetings #JeffJarvis #eventprofs
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Patricia Madson’s first improv maxim is "Say Yes!" This reminds me of a harrowing incident at the closing session of a three-day conference…
#meetings #facilitation #improv #EventDesign #SayYes #events #eventprofs
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Most conference programs try to include everything. But actually, attendees love programs that contain just what they want and no more.
#meetings #EventDesign #ConferencePrograms #ParticipantDriven #JustWhatTheyWant #eventprofs
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Reduce China-style self-censorship by participants at your meetings, by including agreements at the start
#meetings #EventDesign #agreements #covenants #SelfCensorship #eventprofs
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Attendance versus participation. There are more chances than ever to attend a conference, but all of them require participation if you expect them to work.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/01/attendance-versus-participation
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Many so-called experiential events are phony. Genuine experiential events satisfy attendee wants & needs, impact lives, & build community.
#meetings #EventDesign #conferences #phony #experiential #genuine #community #eventprofs
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Why we should be calling traditional conferences "unconferences", reserving the word "conference" for participant-driven event designs.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/01/why-i-dont-like-unconferences
#meetings #EventDesign #unconference #conference #eventprofs
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Dinner seating — a study. Huge round tables, crowded together, all men, and you can't reach the wine. What else do you notice?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/02/dinner-seating-study
#meetings #EventDesign #DinnerSeating #mistakes #NoWomen #eventprofs
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Almost all attendees prefer a real-time, interactive, relevant conference experience to a traditional, broadcast-heavy event!
#meetings #broadcast #Olympics #NBC #streaming #EventDesign #events #eventprofs
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Traditional conferences have implicit ground rules. Surprisingly, it turns out we also need explicit ground rules.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/08/implict-ground-rules
#meetings #EventDesign #GroundRules #agreements #facilitation #events #eventprofs
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How can we build connection and engagement with the people with whom we work? By giving up control over the choices they're offered.
#meetings #EventDesign #GivingUpControl #choices #connection #engagement #eventprofs