Dumb Little Man: The 3 Simple Ingredients to a Successful Conference |
The 3 Simple Ingredients to a Successful Conference Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:13 AM PST I have a confession to make. I love going to conferences. I love learning from really smart, successful speakers who share their best "insider tips" on how to get ahead. I eat it up. But here's the problem: it's incredibly hard to find really good conferences. So many of them are truly bad. And when I say "bad," I mean dreadful. You know what I'm talking about: boring speakers. Long speeches with no breaks. Unending powerpoint presentations. I can still remember a completely lame presentation I sat through 13 years ago at a conference in Washington D.C. The speaker was bad enough, but the Powerpoint was even worse. It seemed like the guy was trying to fit the phone book on each of his Powerpoint slides. It kept getting worse and worse until finally, there was one slide with at least 300 or 400 words on it. It was so bad that the speaker was squinting at the screen and even he couldn't read it. But here's the good news. Creating a successful conference isn't all that hard. Read more » |
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