In our training meeting for Washington DC’s Design Thinking community, we did a number of activities that straddled how we: improve meetings better connect with our peers in an online…

How do we create a webinar that's engaging and interactive? The following ideas and webinar best practices were all submitted by professionals who organize online events, virtual conferences, and webinars…

How can we improve status meetings? As one of the most common reasons we gather in an organization, status meetings happen all the time. They typically represent a big investment…

With restrictions resulting from the new coronavirus outbreak, virtual meetings and videoconferencing will become more common and important. Be it a work-from-home environment or simply being unable to travel to…

Typically, we think of there being conference workshops or content and then a separate set of sessions devoted to conference networking. If you want to think about how to make…

Conference networking is a central part of planning a big meeting. And when thinking about how to make a conference better, conference networking is often at the top of the…

I recently ran a workshop in Washington, DC called Reinvent or Refresh Your Conference! for conference organizers. In essence, how to make a conference better? We had about 20 people…

There are a lot of conference planning guides and event planning checklists. One of the best, most concise, most effective I’ve seen is Open Gov Hub's Guide To Great Events.…

The other day, I got into a discussion with someone who declared that “There is no perfect meeting!” And, because of that, it’s foolish to think we can teach people…