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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

Having been on Twitter (yes, I know it’s been renamed “X”, sue me) since 2009, I’d describe Mastodon as the old Twitter. What Twitter was back then When I joined Twitter in June 2009, the platform was just about to take off. By the end of the year, “Twitter” was declared the top word of 2009.

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Event Fuel wins ‘Best Event Team’ at Event Industry Awards 2019

Event Industry News

Dublin-based events agency, Event Fuel , came away from the Event Industry Awards (EIA) 2019 with more than just happy memories of a glamorous night after bagging the award for the Best Event Team. Launched in 2009, the EIA aims to showcase and celebrate the very best in Ireland’s event industry. Conferences. Areas of interest.

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PCMA EduCon 2019: Can the Meetings Industry Hack Homelessness?

PCMA Convene

William Thomson (center) will take part in PCMA’s hackathon on homelessness in June during EduCon 2019. The average person in 2009,” reports the science magazine Nautilus , “was less empathetic than 75 percent of the people in 1979.”. The duo will be back at this year’s Educon.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 2

Conferences that Work

I developed The Three Questions in 1995 as a fundamental opening process for peer conferences. You can find the most detailed implementation in Chapter 18 of my 2019 book, Event Crowdsourcing. Conferences That Work [2009] (Chapter 25, pages 260-265). Staffing an online Zoom peer conference.

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Big Plans for the Meetings Mean Business Initiative

MeetingsNet

As it reaches its 10th anniversary, the industry-wide coalition details its 2019 strategy. At this week's PCMA Convening Leaders conference at David L. The other two elements of the 2019 plan for Meetings Mean Business are focused on gaining a higher profile in three critical industries: healthcare, high-tech, and banking/finance.

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COVID 19 Business Impact Study – Global Perspective

Event Industry News

As a service-based industry that relies on networks of people meeting in a live environment, the report suggests that the events industry is not well positioned to see demand returning to the levels experienced in 2019, with one third of respondents suggesting that demand will significantly decrease due to the pandemic.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). In 2019 the ITB MICE Forum theme was ‘The Human Factor’. The Falling Walls conference achieves this aim by putting humans into focus.

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