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Emerging Association Meeting Strategies

Smart Meetings

To explore this further, Smart Meetings sat down with Michelle Mason, president and CEO of ASAE , to learn how meeting professionals can bring members together in more meaningful ways and what the next generation of convention attendees want in their experience. It presented an opportunity for us to create new experiences.

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The Power of Purpose is Fueled by Collaboration

Smart Meetings

New to the partnership is ICCA’s The Future of Association Meetings and Societal Transformation , an event which will address the role of associations in societal transformation. The group will meet April 9 at ASAE’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. On April 10, the expanded Showcase takes center stage back at Walter E.

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Four Ways That Corporate Meeting Planners Can Trim Budgets

Master the Event

Corporate meeting planners are always looking for creative ways that they can trim their meetings budget without losing too much of the overall program. Today, corporate meeting planners have a tough job. Of course for many corporations and associations meetings are a vital part of their operation.

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The Way Forward 

PCMA Convene

At more and more conferences, especially those produced by associations and other nonprofit organizations, community-service projects are as expected as exhibit halls and award ceremonies. Attendees were interested in their work, so the gardeners presented a few sessions — which led to the emotional encounter with Segar. “On

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Informal, Yet Aggressive.

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