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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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Suffering from Midjourney distortion of human body parts in your generated images? Try this simple approach to minimize these artifacts.

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#Midjourney #tip #minimize #distortion #artifacts #hands #fingers #arms #feet #graphics #illustrations
minimize Midjourney distortion: a Midjourney landscape image of two men shaking hands with minimal human body part distortion
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Right now, I am a long-distance facilitator. And, though I love my work, for a couple of different reasons I sometimes feel alone.

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#facilitation #meetings #InPerson #loneliness
long-distance facilitator. Black and white movie image of Colin Smith, the protagonist of the 1962 film "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". Smith is wearing running clothes with the number 14 on his chest, standing in a field with flags and another runner behind him.
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Two principles for designing conference ground rules. They should 1) increase participants' freedom, and 2) be measurable.

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#EventDesign #agreements #freedom #eventprofs #events
principles for designing conference ground rules: a graphic of twelve activities forbidden in a park no: —alcoholic beverages —smoking —glass containers —dogs or pets —motor vehicles —littering —open fires —camping —diving —baseball —boat launching —vendors
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A great, permanent, personal, and inexpensive appreciation that you can provide to meeting volunteers and staff during an event

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#events #tip #volunteers #appreciations #thanks #meetings #eventprofs
inexpensive appreciation poster: photograph of a poster for a conference I designed and facilitated, covered with written appreciations by participants and now posted proudly in my office
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.

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#facilitation #GalleryWalk #PairShare #tip
Photograph of women at a gallery walk, illustrating how to improve breakout gallery walks
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 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 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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How can you live blog a public conference session without going crazy? By crowdsourcing your event recording!

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#LiveBlogging #tip #crowdsourcing #meetings #events #eventprofs
live blog a public conference: photograph of a conference participant blogging on their computer. Photo attribution: Flickr user catspyjamasnz
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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When things don't go according to plan at your events, the improv and gratitude practice of "seeing the gifts" can transform your response.

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#meetings #EventDesign #SeeingTheGifts #improv #ImprovWisdom #Naikan #eventprofs
Seeing the Gifts. Image: detail from the cover of Improv Wisdom, 2005 edition
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Here's a worthy initiative to create standards for safer events: The Public Health Event Badging Standard. Sign the Public Health Pledge!

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#meetings #PublicHealth #safety #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Illustration of The Public Health Pledge, creating standards for safer events
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Clients who generously give me client feedback have a special place in my heart. Here's what I learned from one client's feedback.

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#EventDesign #feedback #eventprofs #assnchat
Photograph of participants at a Peace and Security Funders Group meeting from the organization's website
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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You can improve meetings by de-emphasizing status. Design conferences to replace old-school fixed status with fluid real-time status.

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#meetings #RealTime #status #MeetingDesign #eventprofs
Improve meetings by de-emphasizing old-school status: an illustration containing a pyramid made of multiple copies of an icon representing a judging panel of three people, one at a higher level than the other two.
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Here are four unquestioned assumptions that lay at the heart of a traditional conference format

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#meetings #EventDesign #assumptions #TraditionalConference #eventprofs
Photograph of a man in a suit standing at a sales window. A sign on the wall beside him says "NO MISTAKES CAN BE RECTIFIED AFTER LEAVING THE WINDOW".
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Stop conference lecturing! Sadly, the majority of conferences are still dominated by lecturing, even though we know it's a poor way to learn.

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#meetings #EventDesign #events #lecturing #indoctrination #eventprofs
stop conference lecturing: photograph of Egyptian hieroglyphs with a central figure seemingly lecturing others. Photo attribution: Flickr user tonayo
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A (slightly edited) interview "Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing" by JT Long in Smart Meetings Magazine.

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#meetings #EventDesign #interview #SmartMeetings #crowdsourcing #eventprofs
Adrian Segar short bio and photograph from the article in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. Publications: Author of Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love and The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action, and Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need. Title: Facilitator at large Degrees: B.A. in Physics from Merton College, Oxford; Ph.D. in elementary particle physics from University College, London.
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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When will we wake up about the need to change our conference designs?

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#meetings #EventDesign #learning #events #eventprofs
change our conference designs: Edward's arm in the hands of his medical advisers. Illustration for The Comic History of England (Bradbury, Evans, c 1850).
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Here are the three things that conference attendees really want to know about each other.

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#TheThreeQuestions #meetings #MeetingDesign #eventprofs #assnchat
A beautiful tall window with a curved top, framed with red curtains looks out past a verandah and a lawn to city buildings in the distance.
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 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.

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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 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Are we moving towards a world where the only available work is in low-paid "human service" areas where people are still cheaper than machines?

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#FutureOfWork #AI
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Though I've been consulting for decades, I still sometimes fall victim to the Consultant's Curse

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#consulting #ConsultantsCurse #listening #explaining #influence #ProblemSolving #advice #permission
The Consultant's Curse: illustration of a businesswoman standing at a microphone on a stage with an audience in the background. Standing next to her is a businessman with duct tape over his mouth.
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

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#meditation #CreativePractice #MindfulProductivity #mindfulness
Tame the creative mind! Photograph of a 1960s IBM Corporation wooden wall sign laminated plaque with the word "THINK" in large letters and the phrase "COMPLIMENTS OF IBM CORPORATION" in small letters underneath.
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could know whether a great idea would lead to successfully creating a new conference?

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#meetings #NewConference #QuestionsToAsk #events #eventprofs
creating a new conference: photograph of an enthusiastic audience standing and applauding
December 3, 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.

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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 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Here's a magical question to ask when someone says 'I don't know'. Why does it (sometimes) work? I don't know!

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#facilitation #FacilitatingChange #IDontKnow #question
magical question: A photograph of a yellow sticky note on a wall on which is written "I don't know".
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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How to improve your facilitation practice using continual improvement. Practice -> Notice -> Respond -> Implement -> Test and repeat!

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#facilitation #ContinualImprovement #GroupWork #Kaizen #LifelongLearning #practice
improve your facilitation: a photograph of a Solution Room conference session, with participants talking animatedly in groups of eight at round tables
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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My Anguilla vacation is a 24/7 event. Event planners and designers like me can learn a lot from Anguillans.

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#events #Anguilla #vacation #tourism #24/7 #eventprofs
A screenshot from a video of the view from my Anguilla villa vacation
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM