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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings

Conferences that Work

Meetings of every kind offer these opportunities. Personal meetings like these, whether brief or extended, between good friends or strangers, are fundamental. Someone to tell it to at conferences. Conferences, whether in-person or online, are also potential arenas for conversations. No conversations occur during lectures.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Heike Mahmoud, CMP

Smart Meetings

Heike Mahmoud , CMP, was one of the first European meeting professionals to earn the Certified Meting Professional (CMP) designation through the Events Industry Council (EIC) in 2006. It is a seal of quality that is immediately understood and is one of the foundations for success in the international meetings industry,” she says.

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The Batch Fixer

Conferences that Work

I freewrote The Batch Fixer contemporaneously on April 10, 2006, in twenty minutes while waiting for a flight at Dallas Fort Worth airport. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post The Batch Fixer appeared first on Conferences That Work. He’s sitting four chairs to my left. He has left now.

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2020 Offers New Thinking on Technology For These 6 Meeting Types

SmartMeetings

Meeting Type Research. According to the 2020 Global Meetings Forecast Report by American Express Meetings & Events, here is the breakdown of the types of meetings and the percentage of time they take place in North America. Meeting Type. Internal Meeting or Training. Senior Leadership or Board Meeting.

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Will Constant Mask Wearing Save the Meetings Industry?

SmartMeetings

Remember conferences and events before COVID-19, mask wearing and social distancing? We all know masks help save lives—but here’s the clencher—are you willing to wear your mask the entire conference time? Meetings Could Look Like [Way Outside of the Box]. When it comes to meetings in the Asian market, they look vastly different.