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Obsessed with conferences

Conferences that Work

Are you obsessed with conferences? Yet no vice bedevils me like my one desperate fixation, my shameful ravening itch: I simply must attend conferences. George Meyer , My Undoing: Obsessed with conferences , The New Yorker, May 28, 2007 Of course, every good meeting planner is fixated on the details of the events we plan. .

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Kinura: supporting live stream, hybrid and virtual events since 2007

Event Industry News

Sarah is a virtual event and livestream consultant with 20 years industry experience in digital media, events and broadcasting. The hybrid event model isn’t new to us at Kinura. We’ve supported live stream , hybrid and virtual events since 2007. SPONSORED CONTENT.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

And then in 2005, twenty-eight years later, I felt compelled to write a book about the new ways I’d developed to design and lead conferences that became what the participants wanted and needed. I would need every scrap of my conviction about the importance of peer conferences to persist in what followed. ” Jerry was right.

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START Summit injects innovation into Europe’s startup conference scene

The MICE

START Summit offers an innovative take on entrepreneurship conferences – entirely student-run it gives a fresh perspective on Europe’s startup landscape. START Summit was later established as one of the Global Projects and had its first event in 2007. It’s scheduled for March 21-22, 2024, in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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Blackpool Conference & Exhibition Centre Celebrates 12 Month Milestone

Prestige Events Magazine

The Blackpool Conference and Exhibition Centre has announced today that in its first 12 months of operating, it welcomed 55,000 delegates through its doors and generated, alongside Winter Gardens Blackpool, in excess of £70m in economic benefit, contributing to Blackpool’s overall visitor economy which is valued at more than £1.58bn.

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

The invention of the #hashtag in 2007 made it easy for users to find specific relevant content and communities. Communities sprang up around shared interests and events. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Mastodon is the old Twitter appeared first on Conferences That Work. The old Twitter is gone.

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Meeting Professionals International Experiments with Annual Meeting

MeetingsNet

First, MPI took the event outside of the U.S. MPI announced this destination choice in November 2021, near the end of the period when in-person events were still mostly absent from the business landscape. Previous MPI conferences had fewer general sessions and keynotes. WEC has taken place outside the U.S.

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