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I've been designing, organizing, and facilitating conferences for thirty years. I create Conferences That Work—self-organizing peer conferences that adapt to attendees' needs, and that include opportunities for personal and group reflection and development.

My book Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love was published in November 2009.

I am a former elementary particle physicist, information technology consultant, professor of computer science, and co-owner of a solar manufacturing company. I live with my wife Celia in Marlboro, Vermont, am active in the non-profit world, and love to sing and dance.

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Jan 14
All: How to improve Survey participation from attendees?
"Three updates on the survey results from EventCamp East Coast. 1) Our survey response rate was actually 70%, not <50% as Traci quoted. That's pretty good, and is typical for the events I organize. 2) You can already read all the evaluations of our opening roundtable here. They're in a section at the end of the post. 3) We also sent the evaluations of every peer session to the l..."
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Dec 17
All: Applying The Fisch Flip To Your Conference Model
"While I don't emphasize supplying predetermined content in advance of an event, I've been creating Conferences That Work which emphasize interaction and small group discussion for twenty years now. You might be interested in how one client, a medical association, is using my ideas for an 800 attendee event in 2011, Check out the video on http://www.mgma.com/peer/."
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Oct 7
All: Virtual Book Club?
"An interesting idea Midori. Were you thinking of event/presentation/social media themed books? Presentation Zen, Cognitive Surplus, Linchpin, Community, and The Story Factor are some that come to mind. And how we would meet virtually? Via tinychat, or text chat or conference call? I don;t have much free time, but I read a lot, and a virtual book club on these kind of topics would be interes..."
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Aug 3
All: 5 Minutes To Build Your Own Blog Community
"I've installed it on my blog too. I like what I see. Thanks Coree for sharing this tool! -Adrian-"

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Feb 8
Web Site 14 things I learned at EventCamp 2010 (Part two of my reflections on EventCamp 2010, held February 6th in New York City. Part One here.) As at every good conference, it was th...
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Feb 7
Web Site First impressions from EventCamp 2010 (This is the first of two posts about EventCamp 2010. This one contains my first impressions; tomorrow I’ll write about what I learned th...
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Feb 1
Web Site The Difference Engine William Gibson & Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine introduces us to an alternative world where electronics was never discovered, whe...
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Jan 26
Web Site Encouraging risky learning at conferences Think of the last time you were with a group of people and made a stretch to learn something. Perhaps you admitted you didn’t understand ...
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Jan 25
Web Site Six principles of conversation While reading Margaret Wheatley’s lovely book turning to one another I ran across the six principles she has “learned to emphasize” befor...