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Better Because You Were There

Velvet Chainsaw

This was shortly after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. Following those shootings, a number of association conferences pulled out of — or dropped from their consideration — nearby Orlando and St.

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Event Planning Conferences – Nuts & Bolts…

Master the Event

The moniker doesn’t matter and whether you call it event planning, conference planning, meeting planning or meeting management, the facts are the facts. Significant business decisions, undertakings and solutions will transpire during meeting and event planning conferences that occur outside of work.

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Are City Planning Conferences the Next Big Thing?

Master the Event

On conferencealerts.com there were over 100 meetings, conferences and events scheduled in “Urban studies, architecture and related fields”. And that was just for 2011; there are already 15 planned events on the schedule for 2012. City Planning Conference – How Academics Became the Next Hot Thing in Event Planning.

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Travel Portland’s Karen Martwick Plays Her ACES

Connect Your Meetings

I’ve been an active member of ACES since 2009 and joined the board in 2012. The former organizer of the conferences stepped off the board, so that role needed to be filled. Did planning the ACES conference give you a new perspective on your role. as an editor?

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PSAV Acquires Encore Event Technologies: What It Could Mean for Event and Meeting Planners

Endless Events

October 2012. In order to fully understand how big of an impact this acquisition let’s take a look at a bit of the recent history of PSAV’s acquisitions and their climb to the top. Kelso & Co.

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Where to Host Your Next Conference: 8 Best Locations

Endless Events

According to Travel Weekly ’s 2016 Consumer Trends report, the percentage of leisure trips that have a business component jumped to 17 percent, up from 11 percent in 2012 and 14 percent in 2015. When was the last time you Instagrammed a conference? Sitting in a convention center isn’t that exciting.

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Data-driven Tips for Using Email Marketing to Promote Events

Endless Events

Email open rates on mobile grew 68% in 2016 compared to 21% in 2012 ( Campaign Monitor ). Here are the numbers to show you how important mobile email marketing is to your overall success: The number of new smartphone subscribers is growing by 20%+ per year ( Mary Meeker via TechCrunch ). How to Optimize Emails for Mobile Devices.