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Online Events Grow in Wake of Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

As efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by restricting travel ripple across the globe, a growing number of event organizers are opting to move meetings online as an alternative to canceling them. I do believe that this is going to be part of the toolbox for meeting designers or meeting professionals.”

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What I wear for running

Conferences that Work

Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meeting design and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was. For a trip to Australia in 2018 I splurged on some fancy Ably t-shirts. I see one or two cars a day, and two or three pedestrians a year.

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We’re Not Going It Alone

PCMA Convene

In collaboration with the Joint Meetings Industry Council, PCMA is funding a study on the professional, business, academic, and economic outcomes of business events and how they can best be communicated to affected communities and governments, a project that is being managed by the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.