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I design & facilitate conferences that ➠ what folks want/need 🔸 Author of 3 meeting design books 🔸 ❤️ 2 🎤🕺🏻🧘♂️ 🔸 Recovering academic 🔸 @ASegar@mastodon.social 🔸 Marlboro, VT, USA; Work globally 🔸 Everything about me: conferencesthatwork.com
Replace "brain training" hype with something that works. A photograph of a Lego steam train with a brain above it that looks like smoke coming out of the chimney.
Replace "brain training" hype with something that works. Figure out what you want to do that actively engages your mind — and do it!
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#learning #BrainTraining #hype
Photograph of a group of three Playmobile model firefighters facing each other. Photo attribution: Flickr user bdld
How are group culture and event leadership interlinked? Organic leadership can create an event environment that empowers people.
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#leadership #meetings #events #culture #influence #eventprofs
An example of an effective activation: A Facebook post for a LEGO™ in-mall collaborative building event.
From brand spectacle to co-creation: how to design event activations with agency and meaningful involvement that generate lasting value.
#EventActivations #EventDesign #ExperientialMarketing #newpost
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I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
an illustration of a rainbow parachute dangling the words: Nowhere. Now here
Guide attendees out of the routine of attending, and gift them back into attention. This moves them from nowhere to now here.
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#meetings #attending #presence #attention #nowhere #NowHere #events #eventprofs
Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?
Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
Q: A new report says that a military investigation has found that the US struck the school in Iran. As commander in chief, do you take responsibility?
TRUMP: For what?
Q: A strike on the school in Iran
TRUMP: I don't know about it
Keep in mind that Pete Hegseth's reported Pentagon spending spree happened just months after Trump and Republicans made devastating cuts to the social safety net in exchange for huge tax cuts for the rich.
And defense spending may soon hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Priorities.
There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.
BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent
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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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This week marks 26 years since the dot-com bubble burst, taking with it nearly 200,000 jobs and trillions in wealth.
The AI bubble could soon meet a very similar fate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA
Seems like something we should’ve had a plan for before we started the war. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Share of election spending by billionaires before Citizens United: 0.3%
Share of election spending by billionaires in 2024: 19%
It is not a coincidence that we're about to get our first trillionaire while working people struggle to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare.
NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.
It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.
Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.
175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.
Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
See the problem here?
Democrats should demand a clawback of ICE's remaining OBBB money before agreeing to supplemental Pentagon funding.
Advisers to RFK Jr drop the plan to end federal guidance amid Republican worries about the political impact
LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ?
TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged
LANDERS: It wasn't though
TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know?
LANDERS: Your own AG said it
TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter
LANDERS: Where's the evidence?
Here's my bottom line:
Much of what they are doing is bad.
Much of what they are doing is unpopular.
Pushback is working.
We are winning.
Keep fighting.
Be creative.
Push for what you'd want.
Allow for insiders and outsiders.
Realize that change takes time.
Reduce harm in the meantime.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Trump ended the IRS Direct File program that allowed millions of taxpayers to file taxes for free.
That happened after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government to block the IRS from launching its own program.
Intuit also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
See how this works?
An illustration of how the establishment deflects criticism. A group of well-dressed powerful men point towards a graphic of a person wearing a mask and an airplane dropping bombs on a building while ignoring two other graphics depicting society's role to protect its citizens from pandemics and a well-designed building with good ventilation.
Three events make me notice ways a society's establishment deflects criticism: Veterans Day, masking attitudes, and mass shootings.
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#AirQuality #masking #pandemic #LongCovid #VeteransDay #GunViolence
truly listen: black and white photograph of two people at a restaurant looking intensely at each other
What happens when you truly listen?
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#listening #facilitation #eventprofs #assnchat
Unmembership and unconferences: a photograph of tree roots snaking along the surface of the ground. Photo attribution: Flickr user buehlerphoto
How "Unmembership" Gets Back to the Roots of Associating: the parallels between the reasons associations and conferences are born
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#associations #unmembership #meetings #unconferences #assnchat
An example of an effective activation: A Facebook post for a LEGO™ in-mall collaborative building event.
From brand spectacle to co-creation: how to design event activations with agency and meaningful involvement that generate lasting value.
www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...
#newpost #EventActivations #EventDesign #ExperientialMarketing
Expressing Our Feelings In Public: four photographs of a children's theater production
Have you ever expressed your feelings in public at a conference? Conferences That Work provide a safe environment for sharing how you feel.
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#meetings #EventDesign #safety #feelings #emotions #sharing #agreements #eventprofs
Fear of change: photograph of a fork in the road in the woods. Image attribution https://www.flickr.com/photos/raptortheangel/624151138
How fear of change makes it hard for us to notice and take action when we reach a fork in the road of our life
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#FacilitatingChange #fear #choices #opportunity
/2 I still think it is astounding and a sign of the moral rot of institutions that the focus is on him being friendly with Epstein and not specifically on conspiring with Epstein, convicted sex offender, how to take advantage of a younger and less powerful colleague he calls a racial slur.
