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Skift Meetings’ Top News Stories of 2022

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Skift Take: Wrapping up an intense year filled with ups and downs, we share the most popular news stories published on Skift Meetings in 2022. Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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2022 Conference Registration Pacing

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On average, associations are anticipating 2022 registration and revenue will be about 20 percent below pre-pandemic levels. It’s expected that meetings in Q3 or Q4 will outperform those held in the first half of this year.

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How the Meetings Industry Evolved in 2022

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Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash Skift Take: There are positive signs that the meetings industry is now more aware of its impact and legacy. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Top Event Manager Podcast Episodes of 2022

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Skift Take: The Event Manager Podcast by Skift Meetings features leading meeting professionals sharing insights and strategies to succeed in the ever-evolving world of events. These were the most popular episodes of 2022.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Hybrid Events For Your Association

Hybrid events give associations the ability to drive greater value for their members –– provided they are done right. Don’t "host and hope;" use the proven strategies in this playbook to boost membership activity, and maximize your event ROI and experience.

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IMEX America 2022 Celebrates Meetings Comeback

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Skift Take: The 2022 edition of IMEX America sent a strong signal that the meetings and events industry is back and booming. Here are our takeaways from the show. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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ASAE Embraced Disruption at 2022 Annual Meeting

Smart Meetings

The return to The Center for Association Leadership’s (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Exposition brought almost 5,000 people to Nashville in August after two years of virtual experiences. Through Zoom meetings, hopping on a plane and attending gatherings in the Washington, D.C.

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Best of 2022: CSR

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings has collected our best CSR stories of 2022 to inspire and encourage continued efforts towards good causes. Starting IPW 2022 with a Green Bang: Tourism Cares Pledges $10,000 to IDEAS for Us. The post Best of 2022: CSR appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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2022 Meetings Industry Survey

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings and Destinations International are partnering up to better serve you this year —with your help! We need your feedback about the biggest challenges you are facing as a meeting professional right now and how we can collectively help you going forward.

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9 Lessons Learnt From SXSW 2022

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The 2022 edition of South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festivals came to a close on Sunday. The post 9 Lessons Learnt From SXSW 2022 by Miguel Neves appeared first on [link].

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Case Study: Canadian Meetings + Events Expo 2022 Uses the Mobile Event App to Drive Engagement With Exhibitors

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For over 25 years, The Canadian Meetings + Events Expo (CMEE) has brought together meeting planners of all kinds – independent, corporate, or government – with event suppliers. Meet the Person Behind the Magic. CMEExpo 2022, Toronto, Canada, August 16-17. About the CMEE.

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Stop networking at meetings

Conferences that Work

It’s time to stop networking at meetings. No, I’m not saying we should only listen to lectures at meetings. This post was inspired when Victoria Matey shared the following thought about networking at meetings: Random thought.

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Best of 2022: Sustainability

Smart Meetings

Meeting venues, airports, car manufacturers and hotels have all been making efforts to tackle the question of climate change and longevity in the hospitality industry. Some meeting venues just dabble in sustainability, while others make it their MO.

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Case Study: Canadian Meetings + Events Expo 2022 Uses the Mobile Event App to Drive Engagement With Exhibitors

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For over 25 years, The Canadian Meetings + Events Expo (CMEE) has brought together meeting planners of all kinds – independent, corporate, or government – with event suppliers. Meet the Person Behind the Magic. Reactions from CMEE 2022 attendees were extremely positive.

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Free online Participate Lab — May 11, 2022

Conferences that Work

Hosted by CSAE Manitoba , this free one-hour online Participate Lab will introduce you to the design of participation-rich events through the direct experience of participatory meeting techniques and formats. A rare opportunity!

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Make the meeting bigger!

Conferences that Work

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

My work at a pre-con is different from that of a typical meeting planner since I focus on the meeting’s design and facilitation. I’ve been convening meetings for decades, though, so I know a fair amount about meeting planning.

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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022

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Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), a celebration of everything wonderful about the meetings industry, is kicking off its seventh year with the theme “Meet Safe,” a redux of GMID 2021’s theme. Take a look at how our meetings industry friends are celebrating.

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Meet Your Best Event Planning Resource: AI

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Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings. Skift Take: Using artificial intelligence to plan events is no longer a dream, it's a reality. Event Management Technology

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Brandt & Will’s Event Technology Trends 2022

Endless Events

The session was titled ‘Technology Tools and Trends Driving Engagement, Collaboration and Innovation’ And since they talked about event technology trends for 2022 and beyond, the talk is just as relevant today as it was four months ago! Introducing Event Technology Trends 2022.

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11 Trends for Event Professionals to Watch in 2022

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At EventMB's The Future of the Event Industry: 2022 Outlook Summit, event professionals joined us to explore how the industry has metabolized lessons from the pandemic and what that means for events in 2022. The nature of engagement has changed profoundly.

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Best of 2022: Travel

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings has been covering the airline and hotel industry closely this year, both in our weekly travel reports designed specifically for meeting planners and in our feature coverage. See some highlights below on the highs (and lows) of the travel scene in 2022.

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Meta Struggles to Gain Traction With Its Own Metaverse Meetings

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Skift Take: Even Meta is finding it hard to encourage employees to use VR for internal meetings. Still, as the technology improves and users gain familiarity, it may become that standard way people to meet, train, and collaborate online.

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Two novel hybrid meeting formats

Conferences that Work

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No,

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Are Airport Hotels Still Popular for Meetings? 

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Thanks to changing work trends and an evolution in the amenities they offer, airport hotels and even airports are finding favor for certain types of meetings. Maria Lenhart Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Improve meeting session learning with this simple tip!

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Want a simple way to improve meeting session learning? Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meeting session learning with this simple tip! Provide a shared Google doc where all participants can take notes, ask questions, and get answers!

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Connection, attachment, and meetings

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But what does it mean in the context of meetings? Surely we sometimes become attached to people we meet? Isn’t creating and strengthening attachments one of the desirable functions of meetings? Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Connection, attachment, and meetings appeared first on Conferences That Work. A teacher recently advised our daily meditation group to seek “connection free from attachment” This is a wise practice for me.

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3 Event Contract Trends in 2022

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The government had declared a lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, so there was no question that the following elements of force majeure existed: It wasn’t possible to hold in-person meetings or events as it was illegal due to the lockdown.

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Nominate a Meeting Prof for the 2022 Meeting Professionals of the Year

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What better way to show appreciation for your colleagues, partners and associates than by nominating them for 2022 Meeting Professional of the Year? Nominate your favorite meeting professional by July 12 and they’ll be entered for a chance to win this prestigious award.

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Best of 2022: Diversity

Smart Meetings

This year, Smart Meetings highlighted these issues by witnessing the steps being taken on several fronts within the meetings industry to support inclusion and diversity. This is what it means for meeting planners. The post Best of 2022: Diversity appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Inside Skift Global Forum 2022

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Skift Take: It is only natural that a company like Skift has a dynamic event that reflects its brand ethos. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Case Study: Meeting Expectations Doubles Attendee Event App Adoption Year-Over-Year

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About Meeting Expectations. Meeting Expectations specializes in designing and executing strategies to achieve event and association management goals. Meeting Expectations learned from the prior year’s Event App execution and decided to invest in the following tactics: 1.

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Meet the RECONVENE Accelerator Winners

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Earlier this year, Eventbrite put out a call to entrepreneurs, innovators, trendsetters, and anyone else interested in building or growing an events business.

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2022 Incentive Trends Explained

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webinar, “2022 Incentive Trends Explained.” I had a couple of conversations during IMEX (you can read Smart Meetings’ IMEX recap here ) where people were saying, ‘We’re sending out a lot of RFPs, 80 to 90% are coming back saying, “We don’t have space.”’”.

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ASAE Embraced Disruption at 2022 Annual Meeting

Smart Meetings

The return to The Center for Association Leadership’s (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Exposition brought almost 5,000 people to Nashville in August after two years of virtual experiences. Through Zoom meetings, hopping on a plane and attending gatherings in the Washington, D.C.

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A class is a meeting

Conferences that Work

Though I don’t teach college anymore, I’m interested in educational class design because a class is a meeting. And much of what we can do to design great meetings is applicable to college classes too.

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Top Event Planning Tips 2022 With Gianna Gaudini

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Since she’s got such a wide range of knowledge, Karmen thought it would be a great idea to pick her brain about the best event planning tips for 2022. Smart event marketers are figuring out how to meet people where they are and delivering the right content to them at the right time.”

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Best of 2022: Event Security and Safety

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From safe places to travel in 2022 to a look at the larger problem surrounding the Salman Rushdie incident, here are Smart Meetings’ top security stories from 2022. 10 Safest Places to Travel in 2022. New Privacy Laws Will Give More Power to Meeting Attendees.

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Metaverse Meetings Still a Work in Progress

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Skift Take: Even Meta is finding it hard to encourage employees to use VR for internal meetings. Still, as the technology improves and users gain familiarity, it may become that standard way people to meet, train, and collaborate online.

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Endless Events Presents: The 2022 Event Trends Guide!

Endless Events

Now that the celebratory dust has settled, it’s a great time to check out 2022 event trends. 2022 Event Trends Guide: What You’ll Find. The 2022 event trends guide covers nearly all aspects of the events industry: event technology, production, strategy, and more.

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