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It doesn't take much to get theater seating right. Face chairs correctly; set them long; flare aisles off-center front at 45°; and keep unbroken rows short.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/07/theater-seating

#seating #EventDesign #events #eventprofs

right and wrong ways to set theater seating: photograph of the Poetry Foundation auditorium

If your event had a mouth what would it say? How to use powerful visualization techniques to uncover client meeting objectives.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/04/if-your-event-had-a-mouth-what-would-it-say

#meetings #EventDesign #visualization #MeetingObjectives #eventprofs

your event had a mouth: photograph of a mouth at Gaudi's Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain by Flickr user sloverton

Software testers do peer conferences (aka unconferences) right! Here are three examples of software tester conference awesomeness.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2022/09/doing-peer-conferences-right

#meetings #unconference #SoCraTes #PeerConference #SoftwareTesting #eventprofs #assnchat

Participants gather at the 2022 SoCraTes peer conference

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

#meetings #EventDesign #learning #ActiveLearning #retention #participation #eventprofs

Do beats Show and Tell: a photograph of a kindergarten class with children sitting on the floor and a teacher and a child with an umbrella up front. Photo attribution: Flickr user wwworks.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. That's why it's important to build conversation into all our meetings.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/connection-2/2022/03/someone-to-tell-it-to

#MeetingDesign #listening #connection #conversation #eventprofs

Someone to tell it to. A photograph of two young girls looking at and listening to each other. One has her arm around the other's shoulders.

Journalists Damon Kiesow & Jeff Jarvis write about community and audience, echoing key distinctions between peer and traditional conferences

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/02/community-audience

#journalism #community #audience #media #meetings #eventprofs

Community and audience Damon Kiesow @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net Community does not scale. Audience scales. Community is decentralized for quality. Audience is centralized for profit. Community is generative. Audience is extractive. Nov 06, 2022, 10:37

How can we make conferences better? Here are two suggestions, plus my comments, by Samantha Whitehorn of ASAE's Associations Now.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/06/make-conferences-better

#meetings #EventDesign #associations #concierge #connections #events #eventprofs #assnchat

make conferences better: photograph of two seated attendees talking at a conference. Photo attribution: Flickr user michigancommunities

Why do you go to conferences? Spider Robinson said, "Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy."

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2009/11/shared-pain-is-lessened-shared-joy-is-increased-thus-do-we-refute-entropy-spider-robinson

#meetings #sharing #joy #empathy #eventprofs

Shared pain is lessened: a black and white photograph of two people in conversation sitting and looking at each other over a cafe table.

"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.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/any-questions-rethinking-traditional-qa

#meetings #EventDesign #improvement #Q&A #lectures #eventprofs

Any questions? Rethinking traditional Q&A. A woman, seated in the midst of an audience, raises her hand.

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The folks at Kinetech Arts, San Francisco published this delightful illustration of body voting 101, inspired by a short presentation I gave

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/08/body-voting-101-delightfully-illustrated

#facilitation #BodyVoting #illustration #eventprofs

Body voting 101 Kinetech Arts Physical Poll #1 (graphic)

Do you treat your conference attendees as adults? Give them the freedom to question, comment, make suggestions, and influence what happens!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2010/12/treat-conference-attendees-as-adults

#MeetingDesign #control #freedom #eventprofs #assnchat

Do you treat conference attendees as adults? Black and white photograph of a 1940s classroom full of children sitting at desks and looking forward. A teacher, wearing a suit, stands at the back of the room. Photo by Flickr user yvonnert

Traditional conferences are obsolete because a standardized approach for education & training to support creative work is obsolete.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/10/traditional-conferences-are-obsolete

#meetings #EventDesign #obsolescence #PeerLearning #eventprofs

traditional conferences are obsolete: photograph of a large abandoned machine housed in an open building in the middle of a snowy plain. It has brown metal sides and a slanted conveyer belt that extends outside the building.

If there's a heaven on earth in the event industry, here are four essential characteristics of the meeting professionals you'll meet there.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2021/03/essential-characteristics-meeting-professionals

#meetings #eventprofs #love #heaven #listening #AttentionToDetail #communication #creativity

Events operate by stories. "Our species doesn’t operate by reality. We operate by stories. Cities are a story. Money is a story. Space was a story, once."

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/05/events-operate-stories

#events #SciFi #stories #ScienceFiction #eventprofs

Events operate by stories: the cover of the book "record of a spaceborn few" by becky chambers

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

connect the dots: screenshot from Youtube video "STOP STEALING DREAMS: Seth Godin at TEDxYouth@BFS" of Seth Godin saying "Are we asking our kids to collect dots or connect dots?"

Clients who generously give me client feedback have a special place in my heart. Here's what I learned from one client's feedback.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/07/value-of-client-feedback-2

#EventDesign #feedback #eventprofs #assnchat

Photograph of participants at a Peace and Security Funders Group meeting from the organization's website

In less than three minutes, you can improve almost any conference sessions with pair share: for introductions, active learning, and closings.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/10/use-pair-share-to-quickly-improve-your-conference-sessions

#meetings #EventDesign #PairShare #ActiveLearning #SocialLearning #eventprofs

Why Thousands of Event, Hospitality, and Tourism Pros Still Love One of the World’s Most Stressful Jobs.
They’re heading to Las Vegas for IMEX, chasing the rush they create for others—the chemistry of awe, risk, and belonging that makes the work worth it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidadler579345/p/why-thousands-of-event-hospitality by David Adler

#eventprofs #IMEX