#participation — Public Fediverse posts

🎉 Wow, congratulations! 🎉 After years in the wilderness, #Protobuf finally caught up to 2016 with #LSP #support. Someone give these folks a #participation #trophy 🏆 for joining the club where everyone else was already dancing. 💃🕺
https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp #technews #development #HackerNews #ngated

Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.

#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #post

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value

Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.

#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value

The Revolutionary Charter for establishing people’s power (2023) is the output of a radically participatory and democratic process.
Eye opening video by @Ayman: https://youtu.be/ISyFtL2hq1Q

"Placing our focus on criminal justice alone may allow for some individuals to be punished for their crimes against society but will leave unharmed the same hegemony and oppression regimes who are behind violence and atrocities."
excerpt from The Charter: https://migration-control.info/documents/131/The_Revolutionary_Charter_For_January_2023.pdf

#history #racism #resistance #revolutionaries #decolonization #DecemberRevolution #ResistanceCommittees #policy #policies #governance #exploitation #extraction #socialJustice #redistribution #movements #sudan #revolution #khartoum #postColonial #participation #anarchism #warInSudan #civilWar

Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value

#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #newpost

Here's how a medical association was able to add participation into its conference and market the event effectively.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2011/01/how-to-add-participation-into-a-traditional-conference-and-market-it

#marketing #conference #participation #MGMA #eventprofs #assnchat

Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.

#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation #newpost

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value

Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value

#newpost #eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation

Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value

#eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation

Bigger conferences aren't always better. Here's why meaningful participation, not attendance, will define the future of successful conferences.

#newpost #eventprofs #ConferenceDesign #meetings #facilitation #participation

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/08/conference-scale-vs-value

From R.I.C.E. to M.E.A.T.: What advances in injury recovery can teach us about shifting from passive to active learning in conferences.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2025/09/active-learning

#ActiveLearning #ConferenceDesign #Participation #Meetings #LearningDesign

I know the world is crazy right now — and here's what you can do about it

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2017/11/i-know-the-world-is-crazy-right-now-and-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it

#craziness #joy #pain #participation #BernieDeKoven

You can't please everyone, so get used to it. Try to create events that work for everyone? You'll likely get one that works for no one.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/08/you-cant-please-everyone-get-used-to-it

#meetings #EventDesign #participation #PleasingEveryone #PleasingNoOne #events #eventprofs

How can we design for easier attendee participation? By modeling participation, creating a safe event environment, and making participation optional.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/03/three-ways-to-make-it-easier-for-attendees-to-participate

#meetings #EventDesign #improvement #participation #modeling #safety #OptOut #eventprofs

The "conference curator" is a myth. Instead, allow participants to do amazing and generous work by using appropriate participation tools.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/04/the-myth-of-the-conference-curator-part-2

#meetings #EventDesign #curation #ConferenceCurator #myth #participation #tools #events #eventprofs

Here's why "conference curators"—people who can supposedly create great programs at conferences—are a myth.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/02/jeremy-lin-and-the-myth-of-the-conference-curator

#meetings #EventDesign #curation #ConferenceCurator #myth #participation #tools #events #eventprofs

Happy to see that the KIM podcast released the interview I did with them some time ago. It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4SFwUwwqKI. Special thanks to the good folks at the Komunikacija i Mediji program (KIM, or Communication and Media) at the University of Split. #democracy #participation #CULCORC #MeDeMAP

Run The Solution Room to foster meaningful connections and provide peer support and solutions to participants' current professional challenges.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2018/05/why-you-should-run-the-solution-room-at-your-next-event

#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #TheSolutionRoom #connections #participation #ProblemSolving

Traditional conferences assume that conference sessions should be used primarily to transmit pre-planned content. We can do better!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2009/12/unquestioned-traditional-conference-assumption-2-conference-sessions-should-be-used-primarily-for-transmitting-pre-planned-content

#meetings #EventDesign #assumptions #broadcast #content #participation #events #eventprofs

A glossary of 38 conference participation techniques that I cover in my book "The Power of Participation".

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/02/a-glossary-of-conference-participation-techniques

#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #participation #SessionFormats #GroupWork #eventprofs

Our new Tree Value Visions tool helps local authorities and community groups rapidly but inclusively assess values and priorities for managing & expanding urban treescapes.

Available as a free Open University course and published in Npj Urban Sustainability.

Developed with local users in Edinburgh, Camden, Cardiff, Milton Keynes & York, with support from the Local Government Association and Forest Research.

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2026/07/title-287638-en.html

#trees #participation #biodiversity #multispeciesjustice

Please don't call me a speaker. Even if you give me just 25 minutes, I'll include time for people to interact with the content I'm sharing.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/05/please-stop-calling-me-a-speaker

#presentations #presenter #speaking #speaker #interaction #participation #eventprofs