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Fighting Fyre: Epic Event Fails and How to Avoid Them

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FAIL 1 – Not Living Up to the Brand In January 2019, the Clemson University football team was scheduled to be honored with dinner at the White House after their National Championship win against The University of Alabama. Marketing for the event touted celebrity guests, top-level speakers and a highly anticipated ball pit.

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CreativeMornings: A Global Community Built on Connection

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Fast forward to 2019: CreativeMornings now has more than 200 chapters that meet weekly in more than 65 countries — and ultimately working to reverse the trend of loneliness around the world. “I Petersburg, Florida area, relied on the CreativeMornings chapter in Atlanta, Georgia, to help her connect when she was a student.

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Our Picks for the Business Event Trends of 2021

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Many of the trends that were predicted for 2020 at the close of 2019 seem so far removed from our pandemic reality — didn’t we seem so innocent back then? Georgia Tech professor Charles Isbell was the opening. Many of the speakers in the conference program, he wrote, “picked up on this theme: how to ensure A.I. Ayesha Khanna.

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Face-to-Face Meetings: An Antidote for Loneliness

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In Norway, which ranked third in the United Nations Sustainable Development 2019 World Happiness Report, 16 percent of the population reported that they are “haunted by loneliness every day,” according to Karen Dolva, CEO and co-founder of No Isolation, a Norwegian startup that makes connection a priority. Rachel Jolley).

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