know what to draw: two images: Pablo Picasso’s Tête and a photograph of Picasso, Summer, 1912.
Do you know what to draw? Pablo Picasso said: “To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.” In other words, just start!
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#creativity #drawing #Picasso #process #product #starting
Bringing people together across divides: screenshot from the YouTube video "This New Heineken Ad is Briliant #OpenYourWorld"
How can we bring people together across divides? This conversation explores some ideas.
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#BringingPeopleTogether #dialog #deliberation #connection #HeinekenAd #NCDD
An image of a largely empty conference expo hall at the opening of an event.
It’s not a festival, it’s a funeral. When conferences stop serving their core audience, communities don’t disappear—they go elsewhere.
#EventDesign #eventprofs #community #GDC #GameDev #post
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Shutdown record 3m ago The DHS funding lapse becomes the longest shutdown in U.S. history at 44 days as lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a resolution
This “lawmakers remain at a stalemate” framing is all over the place and is so bad.
While technically accurate, it’s misleading and a disservice to readers. If Senate Rs, Senate Ds, & House Ds agree to something, but House Rs keep that deal from getting to Trump, the framing should reflect that.
“Lyons became so distressed when ICE agents couldn’t locate a migrant on their target list after a ride along with top administration officials that one of his bodyguards took a portable defibrillator from a nearby government office to Lyons in case he needed medical intervention, according to one current and one former official.”
Politico reporting that Todd Lyons had a near-medical episode because ICE agents were not succeeding at arresting someone. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
OMFG. It's 7am the morning after millions rally in every state against the authoritarian. Go to the profoundly #BrokenPost and keep scrolling to find any reference under more news. Democracy dies in BTW. The Post is dead and decomposing.
assess consensus: a blurred photograph of an audience overlaid with an illustration of people humming at different volumes
Here's a novel semi-anonymous method to assess consensus on an issue with a large group. It needs no additional resources or training!
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#facilitation #consensus #SemiAnonymousVoting #novel #humming
Did you know that waves of sophisticated drones put a US airbase out of operation for around four hours a day during the week of March 9?
This has never happened in wartime before, even during World War II.
Why is this getting almost no coverage in the U.S. media?
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I can’t wait until Robert Garcia becomes the chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and has subpoena power.
This is huge:
downside to free stock photos: screenshot of a Getty Image embed
Getty Images makes millions of images available as free website embeds. But there's a downside to free stock photos. Don't use them!
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#Getty #free #StockPhotos #downside
breaks between meeting sessions: photograph of a tired conference attendee with his eyes closed. Photo attribution: Flickr user jarkko
Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
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#meetings #breaks #downtime #WhiteSpace #events #eventprofs
Conferences That Work goes to Japan: illustration of the EIL conference logo
Conferences That Work goes to Japan
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#meetings #Japan #ConferencesThatWork #events #eventprofs
An image of a largely empty conference expo hall at the opening of an event.
It’s not a festival, it’s a funeral. When conferences stop serving their core audience, communities don’t disappear—they go elsewhere.
#EventDesign #eventprofs #community #GDC #GameDev
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Photograph of two tiny vehicles parked in one parking space. Photo attribution: Flickr user caribb.
At MGM Resorts, 80% of group business is 100 rooms or fewer at peak, and 62% is 50 rooms or fewer. Most meetings are small meetings!
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#hospitality #meetings #size #SmallVersusLarge #events #conferences #eventprofs #assnchat
phony experiential conferences: an illustration of an excited audience with the word "phony" in front of them
Many so-called experiential events are phony. Genuine experiential events satisfy attendee wants & needs, impact lives, & build community.
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#meetings #EventDesign #conferences #phony #experiential #genuine #community #eventprofs
conference evaluations: a photograph of a milk carton with a message on the side "MISSING: HAVE YOU SEEN ME?" surrounding an evaluation sheet
Some important metrics for conference evaluations that inform you about crucial aspects of the effectiveness of your meetings.
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#meetings #MeetingDesign #improvements #RatingKPIs #events #eventprofs #assnchat
re-envisage event technology: photograph of a plastic sales blister-pack containing four AA batteries and a nail clipper. Photo attribution: Flickr user pierre-francois
We need to re-envisage event technology to significantly improve our events
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#meetings #EventTech #improvement #technology #events #eventprofs
i still can’t get over the god-tier chutzpah of creating this incredible mess for no reason and then saying to the world: “Welp, it looks like you guys better do something. Damn, that’s crazy. Good luck tho.”
Event marketing isn't something you can do all by yourself. Poster of a Barnum and Bailey Circus flier, featuring "The Balloon Horse Jupiter in his Sensational Ascension Act with a gorgeous Pyrotechnic Display at Every Performance of The Greatest Show on Earth". Courtesy of Old Metal Advertisements
Event marketing isn't something you can do all by yourself. Instead get help from stakeholders: presenters, sponsors, and, yes, attendees.
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#meetings #marketing #EventMarketing #WordOfMouth #StakeholderMarketing #events #eventprofs
The Pentagon plans to keep National Guard troops deployed through 2029. That’s not a temporary surge. That’s a permanent fixture. Ask yourself why.
They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.
a photograph of a large rusty loudspeaker mounted on a corrugated metal wall. Photo attribution: Flickr user theenmoy
Please don't call me a speaker. Even if you give me just 25 minutes, I'll include time for people to interact with the content I'm sharing.
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#presentations #presenter #speaking #speaker #interaction #participation #eventprofs
SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings?
CPAC CROWD: *cheers*
SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
drawback to hybrid events: an illustration of a virtual audience of avatars. Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/public_diplomacy/ / CC BY-ND 2.0
A potential drawback to hybrid events that hasn't been widely mentioned to date
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#hybrid #meetings #VirtualEvents #trust #safety #RemoteAudience #events #eventprofs
We must not lose sight of this lawlessness. Trump is unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is murder — and it is a danger to us all.
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Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement.
The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.
You’re already paying for TSA. Congress just decided to spend your money on other things. And now they won’t pass a bill to pay the agents either.
This happened ONE DAY after Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law banning federal immigration agents from wearing masks.
#ICEoufofNJ
What's the relationship between conference size and "success"? My experience? Small well-designed conferences beat the pants off huge events!
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#meetings #success #EventSize #status #SmallMeetings #usefullness #relevance #events #eventprofs
