You're invited!
Join the Purple Line team this spring for the 14th round of virtual CAT meetings to learn about the Purple Line Progress. Hear updates from MTA Maryland, PLTP, & MTS, with recorded replays of the meetings available the next day.
️Want to become a Purple Line CAT member? 
Email: outreach@purplelinemd.com️The Purple Line public meetings calendar can be found here
https://www.purplelinemd.com/public-meetings-events/ #montgomerycountymd #purplelinemd #meetings #mdcommuters
"Hey, sorry I'm 40 minutes late, I'm going to ask several questions that were answered in the basic talk, asked anyway by other people and answered again, and still misunderstand the concept of 'date'."
It's probably a good thing these are all virtual across multiple companies, because my eyerolls would be making enemies...
How to start online meetings on time? By sharing _two_ times: the time the meeting platform will _open_, and the time when it will _start_!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/08/start-online-meetings-on-time
The magic happens when you flip the script:
Share routine updates in writing in advance Spend live time together engaged in collaboration, risk raising, needs meeting, and blocker clearing Update on the attainment progress of measurable goals -- not just subjective estimates of completion of activities Get curious, and comfortable with healthy conflict, to create space for genuine learning.
This isn't theory. It's what transforms the organizations I work with.
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I heard the quote today:
"Frequently wrong, never in doubt,"
in an unrelated Big Think story (quoting Gary Marcus), and I thought...
That's a perfect single statement to sum up why I am so critical of round-robin status-reporting meetings. They're a pageant of progress -- but they too often are expensive (boring) meetings, rarely with actual return-on-time-invested.
Here's a quick rough draft about what I recommend instead, via my low-fi Notion:
Event professionals: let's talk about COVID and duty of care. We are abrogating our responsibilities to keep attendees and staff safe.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/07/covid-duty-of-care
Alright, you FLOSS business folks with countless appointments and meeting invitations each month, hear me out: what if in @EvolutionGnome we could have an integrated visual preview of the surrounding schedule context of an event you are being invited to? 
Here's my ponies-on-rainbows suggestion for it (other #GNOME email clients are welcome to steal my idea): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2950
Most conference programs try to include everything. But actually, attendees love programs that contain just what they want and no more.
How can we help conference attendees satisfy their curiosity? With these three questions I use at the start of every peer conference.
How can we entwine content and connection during an online conference? I share an example from an online conference I designed and facilitated.
Broadcast-style teaching has many shortcomings. So don't use it at your events! Here are three better alternatives to the conference lecture.
It’s not an entrance, it’s a layer. A veteran cellist's rehearsal instruction illuminates playing music—and meeting design.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2021/08/its-not-an-entrance-its-a-layer
Hey
is anyone from New Zealand - Christchurch interested in a meetup?
Typical digital privacy topics and introduction to postmarketos, mobian, arch linux mobile etc. I could bring devices to demonstrate.
Just simple conversations for 1-2 hours every 3 months or so.
The Association for Software Testing issued a free guide to creating peer conferences. I contributed suggestions and it's well worth a look!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/01/free-peer-conference-guide
The event sponsorship psychology of giving swag works. And the beauty is that recipients don't even believe it influences their decisions!
I know there's plenty of tools that let you plan meetings across time zones, and I don't really have much use for them, but I quite like the design here. Very visual.
