Want to read the books? The following sample chapters from my three books are available for free download in pdf format.
Read the books — Conferences That Work
- Table of Contents, About the Author, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction [pdf]
- Chapter 1 – What Is a Conference? [pdf]
- Chapter 3 – What’s Wrong with Traditional Conferences? [pdf]
- Chapter 5 – The Peer Conference Alternative [pdf]
- Chapter 11 – How to Start Making Your Conference a Reality [pdf]
- Chapter 23 – Pre-Conference Preparation [pdf]
- Index [pdf]
Read the books — The Power of Participation
- Table of Contents, About the Author, Acknowledgements, Foreword [pdf]
- Chapter 2 – Meetings are a mess—and how they got that way [pdf]
- Chapter 21 – Small group selection [pdf]
- Chapter 28 – Participation techniques overview [pdf]
- Chapter 33 – Human spectrograms [pdf]
- Chapter 49 – Dot voting [pdf]
Read the books — Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need
- Table of Contents, About the Author, Acknowledgements, How to use, Introduction [pdf]
- Chapter 2 – Why you need to crowdsource meeting content [pdf]
- Chapter 8 – How to use this compendium of crowdsourcing techniques [pdf]
- Chapter 13 – Techniques glossary [pdf]
- Chapter 15 – Important design considerations for program crowdsourcing [pdf]
- Chapter 25 – Session crowdsourcing overview [pdf]
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