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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

At the time, a mere six years ago, the fledgling for-profit entity that wagered its future on the potential of virtual meetings staged sessions that were too heavily weighted toward the online audience in the verbal communication and moderation by the speakers. In my opinion, the perfect hybrid meeting. The Switch On.

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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

.” —Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America The meeting industry is no exception. A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. The meeting industry has redefined novelty as creativity. The notes at the.

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Evolve into a Caretaker of Content

Velvet Chainsaw

Imagine designing your next conference or annual meeting from scratch around content instead of picking up the template you’ve been using for years and tweaking it. A good way to create content is to understand why people go to live meetings. Imagine the content isn’t yours. Imagine your audience owns the content.

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2019 40 Under 40: Heather Wakefield, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society

Connect Your Meetings

Heather Wakefield, 39, works remotely in Nashville, Tennessee, as a s enior manager of education and events at Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society. What I do: I am a results-oriented, event and education professional with more than 10 years of experience in healthcare nonprofit associations. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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6 Events for Business Owners in 2019 & 2020

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

South Summit provides an international series of encounters where business leaders meet and inspire each other by communicating what works (and what doesn’t) to help others achieve their goals. Dates : September 18th & 19th, 2019. Location : Helsinki, Finland. Tickets : Available here for companies. 4) Startup Couples 2019.

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Event Jobs | January 2018

Event Leadership Institute

Meeting & Event Job Openings | January 2018. Design & Event Coordinator | AlliedPRA | Chandler, AZ. Meeting & Events Planner | Carlson Wagonlit Travel | Hartford, CT. Conference & Event Specialist | Yale University | New Haven, CT. Meeting & Event Manager | Koncept Events | Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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Prescribing a Hub-and-Spoke Approach

PCMA Convene

The March conference, which brought the neurologist community together to discuss progress on diagnosis and early treatment of multiple sclerosis, was not the first of its kind that AIM has organized, said Barbara Sambugaro, business manager, AIM Education. Another multi-hub AIM event connected as many as 40 venues, she told Convene.