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14 Best Event Management Software Solutions for 2024

Eventmobi

The best event management software will act as your partner throughout the event management process. Whether you need an all-in-one solution or a tool for specific event needs, you can use event software for any aspect of managing your next conference, trade show, association meeting, workshop, or fundraising event.

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Secrets for Engaging Platform-agnostic Association Meetings

Smart Meetings

Webinar session, Joanna Pineda, CEO and chief troublemaker of Matrix Group International , and Jennifer O’Grady, senior director of Design Studio of Maritz Global Events , tackled the Secrets for Engaging Platform-agnostic Association Meetings. Time management and wellness is also a major factor for meeting guests today.

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Association Meeting Minutes: The Dos and Don’ts

StraussCA

These meetings are held in-person, via video call, or via conference call. In this article I will go over what should be and should not be included when it comes to taking association meeting minutes – the do’s and don’ts. Trying to write down every word and detail of a speaker is not possible when you are in a meeting.

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Planners Get Straight Talk from Hotel Owners

MeetingsNet

At a recent meetings-industry conference, hotel executives explained how their properties struggle to balance rising operational costs with competitive rates for meeting groups. That’s because all the fixed costs of maintaining a property still had to be paid” during a time when in-person events were halted or limited.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

In a nutshell, I think that our industry associations have become too focused on justifying their continued existence financially, and are neglecting their core mission of supporting and representing their members and association meeting attendees.

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Connecting with Association Members Using Online Tools – Part II

StraussCA

For example, since in-person events had to come to a complete halt, we have had to adapt how we accomplish some of the yearly, mandatory association meetings, such as the annual general meeting of members (AGM). To learn more about the AGM, visit my blog Preparing for Meetings Held During an Association’s Annual Conference.

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Ready, Willing, and Able – The Return of Association Events

StraussCA

As associations consider when to bring members together, they must consider that members must be ready, willing, and able to do so. When I look at pictures of colleagues gathering at association meetings in the United States – maskless – I realize that I too will be able to do this (more restrictions not withstanding).