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Adrian Segar
@segar.com
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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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Adrian Segar @segar.com · Dec 2
🔸 15 years of 850+ 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

#Introduction 2 of 2
Welcome : Conferences That Work
Conferences That Work: providing design and facilitation of your in-person and online participant-driven, participation-rich meetings.
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Almost all attendees prefer a real-time, interactive, relevant conference experience to a traditional, broadcast-heavy event!

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

#meetings #broadcast #Olympics #NBC #streaming #EventDesign #events #eventprofs
canned or live content: screenshot of tweet from @NormanChad "In effort to realize record profits from Rio 2016, NBC to become first network to air more than 60 minutes of commercials in a single hour."
November 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.

When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.

She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.

By @maxblau.bsky.social
A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.

So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I love creating something beautiful with others. And I hope you are lucky enough to be able to experience such connectedness in your life.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/un...

#singing #choir #music #connection
creating something beautiful with others: photograph of Brattleboro Concert Choir members singing
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Here are six principles shared by Margaret Wheatley that she has "learned to emphasize" before beginning a conversation

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#conversation #principles #listening
principles of conversation: photograph of two women having a conversation. One is standing on the street, the other looks at her out of a window. Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/soylentgreen23/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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How I use small ritual moments—hand-washing, bells, Pomodoro—to anchor attention, deepen presence, and convert ordinary life into purposeful practice.

#Rituals #Presence #MindfulWork #Mindfulness #Productivity

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Hands of a person performing Jewish ritual handwashing at a sink. Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/709805 CC0 Public Domain: Free for personal and commercial use
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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How can groups make decisions? First, publicly discover the degree of consensus on a proposal by using Roman voting.

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#facilitation #GroupWork #testing #consensus #HandVoting #RomanVoting
Testing consensus using Roman voting: a black-and-white photograph of a racehorse jockey displaying both thumbs up. Photo attribution: Flickr user vegaseddie.
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We spend a lot of time talking about problems, effects, and causes. Sadly, we fixate on problems' effects rather than focus on their causes.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/so...

#ClimateEmergency #COVID #wars #problems #effects #causes #solutions
An illustration of London's Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament partially submerged by rising waters. The caption reads "Everybody talks about the climate, but nobody does anything about it."
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Conferences need to be flexible! Keep them healthy and strong by incorporating participant-driven and participation-rich meeting formats.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

#meetings #MeetingDesign #learning #flexibility #events #eventprofs
conferences need to be flexible: photograph of a woman gymnast dressed in black balancing on her hands with her body and legs parallel to the floor
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Also, 1% articles were fully LLM-generated!
And 9% contained more than 50% LLM-generated text!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#AI #LLM #Nature #science
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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claudiamw.bsky.social
Who's ready to vote this shit out of existence?

"At his waterfront estate, billionaire developer-turned-special envoy Steve Witkoff was hosting Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund ... Jared Kushner ... had arrived from his home on an island known as the “Billionaire Bunker.”
jeffjarvis.bsky.social Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 15h
Good Journal reporting on amoral corruption. Gift link:
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine: The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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We'll all get a lot more out of our events when we practice wirearchy, not hierarchy. I encourage you to join me.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

#meetings #EventDesign #hierarchy #wirearchy #eventprofs #events
A photograph of birds on a wire and a lamppost.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Taking time to publicly recognize the people who made your event possible is an easy thing to do and the right thing to do.

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#events #ThankingPeople #acknowledgement #appreciations #eventprofs #assnchat
publicly recognize people: a photograph of Apple's Tim Cook on stage, grinning and stretching out his hands toward the audience
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Freeman's Trends Report Q4 2024 is a must-read to discover if you're doing what's needed to improve your events for your attendees

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#eventprofs #EventTrends #EventDesign #AttendeeExperience #FutureOfEvents #leadership
Freeman 2024 Event Organizer Trends Report We’ve calibrated our research and confirmed our hypothesis: many organizers are operating on outdated definitions of attendee and exhibitor value. The good news? We’re here to help you speak the same language as your stakeholders and overcome the obstacles that prevent progress. This report is your playbook for embracing shifts, equipping you with the insights and strategies to make change now. Fall 2024 Freeman Syndicated Survey of Event Organizers. Copyright Freeman 2024
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The 2026 park pass is… cringy.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d
Hagueseth
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Trump’s rants on Truth Social keep escalating. The outbursts are getting more frequent and more concerning.
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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How can we build connection and engagement with the people with whom we work? By giving up control over the choices they're offered.

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#meetings #EventDesign #GivingUpControl #choices #connection #engagement #eventprofs
build connection and engagement: photograph of a square yellow plastic sign clamped to a wire mesh fence. The pink sign says "CONTROLLED AREA" with a radioactivity symbol underneath.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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How can you support a community online? Here's what I've learned from the many online meetings I've designed & facilitated.

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#meetings #online #LessonsLearned #preparation #agreements #BreakoutRooms #tips #eventprofs #assnchat
Adrian Segar facilitating a small Zoom meeting to support a community online
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This is similar to the logic that the Nazis used to justify mass deportation and murder of Jews, Romani, and other people.

They’re not Nazis, though!
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 1d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Oh nothing. Just a major conservative activist, former staffer for Chuck Grassley and a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch calling me a "retarded pussy." Fun stuff on X, the everything site.
A tweet from Mike Davis in response to Eric Garcia saying "This is disgraceful. I'm Sorry. As a journalist and as a human being, this is unacceptable for any president to use this word." Davis says "You're a retarded pussy, Eric."
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM