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Adrian Segar
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I design & facilitate conferences that ➠ what folks want/need
🔸 Author of 3 meeting design books
🔸 ❤️ 2 🎤🕺🏻🧘‍♂️
🔸 Recovering academic
🔸 @[email protected]
🔸 Marlboro, VT, USA; Work globally
🔸 Everything about me: conferencesthatwork.com
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🔸 16 years of 900+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

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Participant-Driven Conference Design & Facilitation | Adrian Segar
Expert conference design and facilitation by Adrian Segar — creator of participant-driven events that foster real connection and results.
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To give everyone the opportunity to share during a meeting, you need agreement on who goes next. Online meetings pose additional challenges. Here's what to do.

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#facilitation #meetings #EventDesign #options #eventprofs
Who goes next? A black and white photograph of the backs of The Three Stooges trying to all go through a narrow doorway at the same time.
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Why is it important for presenters to incorporate audience engagement? Because participation improves learning—and audiences love it!

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#meetings #presentations #engagement #SocialLearning #leadership #events
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Here's how 1984 turned out like 1884. And what we can do with our learning environments so that 2084 won't look like 1984.

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#1984 #classroom #furniture #learning #seating
A photograph of a mass of carefully aligned red classroom chairs with built-in writing surfaces, all facing forward. Image attribution: Flickr user dcjohn
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone

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#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
A paper form entitled "Best Practices, Tips and Tricks" Take a moment to tell us about the new solutions you've discovered while talking with your colleagues. After the conference, we’ll compile these tips into one document to share with all conference attendees. Provide the session name and breakout on this form (i.e. Workforce Innovations, 9 — 25 FTE’s). The more ideas shared, the larger the pool of knowledge! Session Name and Breakout. Best practices, tips and tricks you’d like to share.
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I'm a strong proponent of learning with others. Here are two examples from physics and coding of the advantages of cooperative learning.

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#learning #CooperativeLearning #PairProgramming #physics
cooperative learning: the famous first example of a leptonic weak neutral current. Black and white Gargamelle bubble chamber photograph showing muon neutrino interacting with an electron.
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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“Kill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possess” isn’t a strategy, it’s just a killing spree
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WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?

TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing

WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?

COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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How do you see leadership and management roles play out in your meetings? What works, what doesn't?

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#leadership #management #meetings #facilitation #events #eventprofs
leadership and management: Diagram of centralized, decentralized, and distributed networks from the classic paper by Paul Baran, "On Distributed Communications: MEMORANDUM: RM-3420-PR," AUGUST 1964, the Rand Corporation
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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FFS
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

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#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post
Screenshot of an AI comment spam, posted to my article "How to fix Apple Watch heart rate monitor not working". Comment: Great tips! I’ve been struggling with my Apple Watch heart rate monitor not working properly, and these troubleshooting steps are really helpful. I’ll definitely try the resets and check my settings. Thanks for sharing!
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A textbook example of what's wrong with privately owned "public" #healthcare in this country.
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to Putin's downfall.

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#Ukraine #Putin #Russia #economy
Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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December 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Get Rid Of Human Resources! Many organizations still use this term to label the office that hires, manages, and fires employees. UGH!

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#HR #HumanResources #alternatives #leadership
Get Rid Of Human Resources! A photograph of a Human Resources sign hanging from an office ceiling.
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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What an interesting coincidence.
THE amp OF THe Saints 109120-2/81 55 "THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS is one of the most chilling books of this generation." James J. Kilpatrick, Washington Star JEAN RASPAIL TRANSLATED BY NORMAN SHAPIRO Trump's stupid FIFA peace participation trophy
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.
National Parks are now free on Trump's birthday, but not on MLK Jr. Day or Juneteenth
The Trump administration overhauled the list of free National Park days for 2026.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Designing trust into conferences turns events from transactional into transformative. Here are six practices that reliably create cultures of trust.

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#EventDesign #trust
An illustration: the word "TRUST" is the foundation stone of a building labeled "CONFERENCE."
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Run The Solution Room to foster meaningful connections and provide peer support and solutions to participants' current professional challenges.

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#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #TheSolutionRoom #connections #participation #ProblemSolving
Photograph of Adrian Segar on stage running The Solution Room at MPI Connecting Leaders 2012
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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One of the dangers of requiring measurable outcomes is that it restricts us to concentrate on what can be measured, not what's important

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#FacilitatingChange #MeasurableOutcomes #learning #objectives #measurement
On measurable outcomes: A self-referential comic entitled "Self-Description" with three panels. By XKCD, Comic #688. The contents of any one panel are dependent on the contents of every panel including itself. In the first panel's pie chart, "this image" refers to the entire comic image, the one that can be downloaded from xkcd (and the entire comic as displayed here above). In the second panel the amount of black used in each panel is displayed in a bar chart. This actually makes this panel the one that uses most black. The third panel features a scatter plot labeled "Location of black ink in this image." It is the first quadrant of a cartesian plane with the zeroes marked. The graph is the whole comic scaled proportionally to fit the axes, so the last panel also has to contain an image of itself having an image of itself ad infinitum.
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/te...

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post
Screenshot of an AI comment spam, posted to my article "How to fix Apple Watch heart rate monitor not working". Comment: Great tips! I’ve been struggling with my Apple Watch heart rate monitor not working properly, and these troubleshooting steps are really helpful. I’ll definitely try the resets and check my settings. Thanks for sharing!
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Bigger meetings aren't necessarily better meetings, because it's easier to design for connection around relevant content at smaller events

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#meetings #EventDesign #EventSize #connection #content #events #eventprofs
Bigger meetings aren't necessarily better meetings: screenshot of a video showing a fraction of the tradeshow floor at IBTM World.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Do you create events that tug at heartstrings? If so, you should feel proud. I know I do.

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#meetings #EventDesign #eventprofs #marketing
events that tug at heartstrings: A photograph of a young girl with a pink flower in her hair
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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DHS Thugs Busted Lying About Attack On US Citizen - Joe.My.God.

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#CBP #DHS #thugs #CitizenAbduction
DHS Thugs Busted Lying About Attack On US Citizen - Joe.My.God.
The Miami Herald reports: The woman in medical scrubs who was forcibly yanked from her car while on her way to work in Key Largo, screaming she was a U.S. citizen, said Friday she had obeyed the feder...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The National Football League announces it will award the inaugural NFL Prize in Physics during the Super Bowl halftime show.
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM