If You Design Conference Experiences, Read This! June 4, 2018 by Jeff Hurt We design experiences for our customers. So why don’t we design experiences for ourselves? Have we missed the obvious? (I confess: I have!) As conference organizers, why can’t we also have a fun, fulfilling, and collaborative experience planning and designing the conference? Well, we can and should! And our planning team members should too. Six … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference as a giving field, convergence, convergent thinking, design conference experiences, design conference participant experience, design conferences, divergent thinking, experience-driven feedback, inscaping, practive divergence, reflective thinking, role hacking
Your Conference As A Giving Field May 29, 2018 by Jeff Hurt We are used to thinking of our conference and its planning process as a one-way transaction from the company to its customers. Sometimes we view the planning process as a backbreaking, arduous, life-draining experience. We may even dread working with a new conference advisory committee due to our negative past experiences. If this sounds like … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference as a giving field, giving and receiving, transactional experience, transfromative experience
