Why don’t leaders publicly recognize the people who do the work? Like Tim Cook does: “Tim paused ever so slightly, and what seemed unscripted (at least I hope it was unscripted) he asked all Apple employees present in the auditorium […]
In early 2010, at the first EventCamp, I discovered the wonder and power of meeting people face-to-face whom I had previously only met online. Perhaps the wonder is stronger for me than most, living in rural Vermont, 100+ miles from any city. […]
Conference organizers have an unfortunate tendency to stuff their programs full of sessions. It’s an understandable choice; if participants have committed all this time and money to be present, shouldn’t we minimize white space at events and give them as […]
Here’s a simple challenge to anyone who organizes an event and asks for evaluations. (You do ask for evaluations, don’t you? Here’s how to get great event evaluation response rates.) Publish your complete, anonymized evaluations. You may want to restrict access […]
Here are the four Pecha Kucha presentations that EventCamp East Coast participants experienced on November 5, 2011. They were followed immediately by small group discussions to cement and broaden the resulting learning. Traci Browne: A journey inside the mind of […]
While preparing to emcee my Pecha Kucha session at EventCamp East Coast, I thought it would be useful to collect together in one place my scattered Pecha Kucha posts and videos about the format, as well as a video of […]
In my experience, when you get a group of professionals together and give them the opportunity to determine what they’d like to talk about, you’ll end up with enough viable topics for several days of sessions. EventCamp East Coast (EC²), […]
Here’s what I learned about event professionals at EventCamp East Coast. One of the reasons I love to facilitate Conferences That Work is that I get to learn interesting things about the culture of the participants. Whoever they are! Young […]
I have a ton of EventCamp East Coast appreciations! I’m still sorting out the lessons I learned from facilitating and organizing EventCamp East Coast, and I’ll be writing about them soon. But, while the memories are still fresh, I want […]
A number of people have asked whether EventCamp East Coast (EC²) will be livestreamed. The answer is a qualified “no”, and since this is a different choice from those made at the original EventCamp in New York City and EventCamp […]