EventMB

DECEMBER 15, 2023

is helping the Radisson Hotel Group rewrite the playbook on group bookings. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Hivr.ai Impressive leaps in lead-to-quote conversion and customer response rates suggest this automation approach is a game changer.

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EventMB

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Meeting booking platforms purport to streamline the RFP and venue sourcing processes, saving hours in the search for venues and back-and-forth with sales staff. With time a precious and increasingly scarce commodity for event managers, […]. The post Will Meeting Booking Platforms Ever Be as Automated as Travel Sites?

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hubli, an online-booking system for simple meetings, now has a tool that venues can use to display available meeting space in real time. The API covers both instant book and RFPs so they can decide to connect both or start with RFP only.”

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 12, 2023

I am delighted and honored to be featured in ‘ Harnessing Serendipity ,’ a unique new book that explores the magic of facilitating connection that leads to collaboration. However, the work of everyone included in this book incorporates most if not all of these approaches.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many meetings still focus on creating audiences rather than community. And not just at meetings. Damon Kiesow , @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net, Mastodon toot on Nov 06, 2022, 10:37 Kiesow concisely sums up why the news business and the meeting industry concentrate on audience rather than community.

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EventMB

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

GroupSync’s instant booking gives them the faster, smarter decision-making capabilities they crave. Groups360 Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: In today’s pressure-cooker environment, planners want the same immediacy and variety as in their online grocery shopping.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 5, 2023

GroupSync Instant Booking for guest rooms now available chain-wide, while Instant Booking for meeting space is coming in 2024. At Omni Hotels & Resorts, the small-group booking process has just gotten a little easier. IHG: Instant booking for guest rooms is available in select markets.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s no secret that event costs are on the rise. You no longer need to do everything manually nor rely on a large suite of costly digital tools to achieve a great event. In fact, modern corporate meeting planning software can help you optimize and automate processes so that you and your team can save time and resources over time.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is the mix of presentation versus interaction at your meetings? Traditional meetings focus heavily on presentation. If you do this, using Google Books Ngram Viewer , you’ll notice a curious thing. In 1804, the earliest year included in the Google Books database, the word interaction barely appears.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Meet Cambridge is launching a new service from February 2024, offering last minute bookings for meeting rooms from its venue portfolio for up to 20 people. Venues participating include traditional Colleges through to contemporary buildings, providing the opportunity to meet in a different and unique setting.

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Skift Take: At a time when virtual events seem to be losing steam, some are wildly successful and help companies generate millions of dollars in revenue. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post A class is a meeting appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 26, 2019

Here’s a teaser: the introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need. Then buy the book ! The social and cultural differences that shaped our frequent meetings fascinated me. Interested? I’ve always been curious. If you had told me then that the.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

Will GroupSync Marketplace act as Expedia for meetings? Groups360 announced this week that Choice Hotels worldwide will be offering online instant booking for group guest rooms through their proprietary GroupSync Marketplace. This puts the hospitality technology platform one step closer to being the Expedia of meeting planning.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As we approach the new year, what are the learnings we will apply to improve the way we manage events during a time of uncertainty? Our team at Attendease got together to share our favorite resources for event professionals, so you can learn the latest trends and ideas from industry experts. Event Design has never been more relevant.

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EventMB

JULY 25, 2023

Skift Take: Cvent, the world's largest event technology company, has unveiled two new products and is rolling out a new instant booking tool across Choice Hotels International's portfolio of franchised hotels. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The 5,100-property hospitality company joins IHG, Omni, and Hilton in using the GroupSync Engage platform on its brands’ websites, allowing planners to view and book event space and guest rooms on the spot. In most cases, the no-RFP-needed platform “is probably going to be for events needing 50 or fewer guest rooms.”.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

At Muir, Autograph Collection, an oceanfront property in Halifax, Canada, planners who are seeking a unique and memorable setting for their event can book meeting spaces with 360-degree […] Julius Robinson, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, U.S.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. For the short-term, request for proposals ( RFPs ) do not look dramatically different, if they’re being submitted at all, but there is great optimism that event disruptions and “new normal” considerations will not persist into future-year events.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We talk about all kinds of things, with a focus on my work and thinking about participant-driven and participation-rich meetings and event design. 06:00 On traveling to events, and my passion for what I do. 07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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Eventmobi

MAY 1, 2024

Selecting the best event technology for your association is crucial for creating engaging events and meetings for your members. That’s why asking the right questions upfront is essential to finding a provider that aligns with the goals and objectives of your events program. Get the Guide 1.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Eventsforce has launched today a new ticketing and registration platform that is set to revolutionize the whole process of managing groups around events. It also offers a unique and innovative group invitation tool that allows group bookers to secure places at events a lot more quickly.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 24, 2019

Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need I’m happy to announce that my third book Event Crowdsourcing will be released this Fall. It covers a fundamental yet neglected topic: creating meetings people actually want and need. Who should buy this book?

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 9, 2021

Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meeting design. “There’s no budget” I’ve noticed over the years that every meeting has a budget for F&B. If you ask about a budget for event design, stakeholders think you’re talking about decor and drama. No related posts.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At Muir, Autograph Collection , an oceanfront property in Halifax, Canada, planners who are seeking a unique and memorable setting for their event can book meeting spaces with 360-degree water views, or even rent the hotel’s 36-foot private yacht. In addition to 94 event rooms, 101 breakout rooms, and nearly 550,000 sq.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel has seen meeting and event bookings soar this year, with a growth of 55% ‘business on the books’ revenue from this time in 2023. The hotel’s growth in M&E can be attributed to the team’s focus on customer service, and specifically, response times.

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Eventinterface

JULY 11, 2017

As we speak with meeting and event professionals for our Interviews with Planners series, we continue to be amazed by the variety of books that help these talented professionals in their jobs as planners. See what other meeting planners read to help them excel in their careers. How to Grow Quickly & Profitably.

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Introducing EventMobi’s Appointment Booking. We’re excited to announce a new major enhancement to the EventMobi event app platform with the introduction of Appointment Booking. This new tool will help attendees connect and book one-on-one meetings with each other before and during your event.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

What are the fairest rules to use when running meetings? ” I think it’s reasonable to concentrate on fairness to participants : the majority of those involved with the meeting. All meetings have rules, whether overt or covert, conscious or unconscious, that influence how they proceed. Status and power at meetings.

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Skift

JANUARY 22, 2020

Meeting to bring participants from various country programmes of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) & WSSCC. wsscc / Flickr Skift Take: Instant booking has allowed co-working spaces and boutique venues to reach more planners. Now, more hotels are expected to go digital.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The experience of booking small meetings has been supercharged for 2023 with the introduction of Instant Book at Best Western Hotels & Resorts. The hotel group, which has over 250 properties in the UK, is the latest venue group to sign up to venuedirectory.com’s Instant Book platform. www.venuedirectory.com

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Eventory

MAY 27, 2019

Event marketing is getting more and more popular part of marketing strategies these days. Why is it worth to measure event KPIs? Event marketing’s importance as a tool employed by specialists and managers grows every day. Because an event equals relationships, an asset that cannot be overlooked by a good businessman!

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Planning at least three months ahead could save as much as 10 percent on the bottom line, according to a new 2019 Meetings & Events Future Trends study from Carlson Wagonlit Travel Meetings and Events (CWT M&E). Outside of these booking windows, potential savings dip by 5–10 percent, the report found.

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GEVME

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Corporate business clients often need some food for thought to gain deeper insight into the event planning industry, the services they often use, and so on. Enjoy our must-read event business books compilation. Enjoy our must-read event business books compilation. The top 20 books for event planners.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design! Unlike previous such events at which scientists had endlessly presented papers about their own work, Humboldt put together a very different programme. Cross-disciplinary. New insights-oriented.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 29, 2021

The essential characteristics of meeting professionals. If there is a heaven on earth in the event industry, there are four essential characteristics of successful meeting professionals you’ll meet there. Every successful meeting involves thinking about, planning for and executing countless details.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” And so it goes with meetings. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote a long book about this. ” — E. Technology.

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