Adrian Segar
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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
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
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Here are four unquestioned assumptions that lay at the heart of a traditional conference format

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#meetings #EventDesign #assumptions #TraditionalConference #eventprofs
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When will we wake up about the need to change our conference designs?

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#meetings #EventDesign #learning #events #eventprofs
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Here are the three things that conference attendees really want to know about each other.

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#TheThreeQuestions #meetings #MeetingDesign #eventprofs #assnchat
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
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
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM