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Conferences are containers for ideas 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
“Books, those bound paper documents, are part of an ecosystem, one that was perfect, and one that is dying, quickly… …We still need ideas, and ideas need containers.” —Seth Godin, An End of Books ...
Fear of change at the fork in the road 19 Aug 2013 | 03:13 pm
How do you facilitate change? In this occasional series, we explore various aspects of facilitating individual and group change. We are surrounded by opportunities that can change our lives in amazin...
Re-envisage event technology to significantly improve your events 12 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors. —Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations I feel i...
Two ways to handle a major obstacle to change 5 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
How do you facilitate change? In this occasional series, we explore various aspects of facilitating individual and group change. One of the reasons it’s so hard to change is because much of what we “...
Published—free update of Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love! 29 Jul 2013 | 03:01 pm
I’m happy to announce that a free 9,000 word update to my book Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love is now available! Many improvements and refinements are included—the outcome of ...
County Sheriff shares his experience of Conferences That Work 24 Jul 2013 | 03:01 pm
Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark spends two minutes sharing his experience of Vermont Vision 2012, a two-day participant-driven conference addressing the inherent challenges and opportunities of a m...
What happens when you truly listen 22 Jul 2013 | 02:04 pm
To truly listen is a gift to the one to whom you listen. It can also be a gift you give yourself. The gift to yourself is a possibility—and a risk. As Sakej Henderson says: “To truly listen is to ...
Useful free tools for Twitter analytics 16 Jul 2013 | 03:30 pm
Last month Twitter quietly rolled out some very useful free analytics tools. I say quietly, because I’ve seen very little discussion of them online. Perhaps that’s because they have not been made avai...
Right and wrong ways to set theater seating 15 Jul 2013 | 03:10 pm
Whenever I see a room set that fights the body, my neck and hips start to ache in sympathy. People shouldn’t have to keep themselves twisted constantly in one direction while seated at an event. Yet w...
Meeting participants deserve real choices, not just window dressing 8 Jul 2013 | 02:52 pm
My daughter Cara and her kids joined us last week at our home in Vermont. We ended up spending most of our time goofing around: July 4 fireworks Bellows Falls station How we...
