Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 4, 2017

This list of conference big ideas just doesn’t belong to the traditional, average conference planning process. Nor are they for the meeting professional looking for the next trendy trend to implement. Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 2. Forming Teams Of Conference Culture Mavens.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2018

As conference organizers, why can’t we also have a fun, fulfilling, and collaborative experience planning and designing the conference? And our planning team members should too. Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. (I confess: I have!).

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SevenEvents

JULY 12, 2023

Are you currently thinking of organising a conference event for your company ? The success of your event depends on meticulous planning and flawless execution. That’s where our conference planning service can make all the difference.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 25, 2018

Too often conference and meeting professionals assume that their role is best suited to planning and executing the conference. I get that from the education section or the conference technical teams.”. They own designing the conference customers experience journey. From Touchpoints To Customer Journeys.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

Your real conference competition is not that event held six months after yours. Today’s technology driven, hyper-connected, instant gratification, real-time world puts you as a conference organizer in a difficult position. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 31, 2017

As a conference organizer, how purpose-driven are you? Successful conference organizers are purpose-driven! They design conference experiences that become meaning-making opportunities for their participants. And they make their planning teams’ work important. Purpose-Driven Conference Organizers’ Mindset.

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Master the Event

APRIL 5, 2022

So drum roll please, conference planners are some of the hardest working multi-taskers I know. And there’s a whole heck of a lot (and I do mean a lot) that goes into planning conferences. In general, the success of every meeting and conference starts with the experience, skills and organization of the conference planner.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 27, 2018

Who wants to attend a common, ordinary, ho-hum, everyday , I’m-just-like-all-the-others traditional conference? And who wants to plan or sell one? Your conference growth and revenue depends upon repeat paying attendees year after year. And your customer loyalty is built upon making your common conference uncommon.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 25, 2017

Our conference learning spaces affect our audience. Then we can focus on changing our conference participants’ learning spaces with the right goal in mind—nurturing their learning. Hat tips Rebecca Louise Hare and Dr. Robert Dillon authors of The Space: A Guide for Educators.). Think About These As You Plan And Design.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 3, 2017

Most conferences are stuck in a rut! So how do you create a conference experience that is not like all the others? Start by considering one or more of these conference big ideas. They are the conference planning road less traveled that harvests success! Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 1.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 14, 2017

The mass-personalization wave that is dramatically changing what and how we buy as consumers has application to conferences. I’ve been doing a lot of research and have learned that personalization can be achieved in a number of ways: Individualized — The customer gets exactly what meets their preferences or needs.

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InitLive

JULY 23, 2019

Conferences are some of the best places to meet like-minded colleagues within the same industry or creative individuals who share similar interests. In an increasingly interconnected world where relationship is key for business, conferences are a must-have for proper networking. Try these tips: Determine Your Objectives.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2018

Established, successful conferences have leadership that are usually adept at incrementally improving their event each year. One improvement tactic–curating conference programming that meets your customers’ needs–is foundational yet proving to be insufficient for innovation and new growth.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 23, 2016

Savvy 21st Century conference organizers can effectively demonstrate strategic learning alignment of their conference networking and education programming. Smart conference professionals are skilled at articulating the value of their event’s networking and learning opportunities. We all know our conferences need more innovation!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 22, 2017

You can make your conference the purple cow of all conference experiences. By creating conference experiences that help your participants think smarter! This means designing conference experiences that go full frontal ! The Traditional Low Level Cognitive Conference. Most conference experiences are passive.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 17, 2016

For too long we have settled for too little from our conferences and annual meetings. We have allowed our past planning procedures, our structures and outdated traditions to hinder and handicap our conference creativity, innovation and uniqueness. We have allowed our conferences to creak along unchanged, year after year.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As stated previously (in this blog as well as many others), meeting planners are a busy bunch of industry professionals. They accomplish these responsibilities and tasks through an unbelievable amount of effort, planning and organizing the various meetings and events on their plate.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Your conference-slip is showing! Well conference professionals, your conference-slip is showing. If conference hosts and meeting professionals don’t foster and protect specific beliefs about today’s society and business, they lack the intellectual framework for their event to transform lives. Hat tips Stephen J.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2017

It’s the adventures of your next conference experience across the eighth dimension. Well, similar to Buckaroo’s adventures, you have the opportunity to take your band of conference participants into the 21st Century conference dimension. These conference programming trends are headed your way.

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Eventinterface

JULY 12, 2017

Today, we are speaking with Julia on how Meeting and Event Professionals can make their projects sustainable and what this means to the success story of these events. For meeting planners who have never thought about sustainability, what are the areas of an event that could be most easily transformed and how? LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 27, 2017

Most conferences offer some type of learning opportunities for their participants. Traditionally, the goal of conference education is to deliver as much information as possible as fast as possible to as many people as possible. We failed at creating authentic deep learning opportunities at conferences. Challenging Mental Models.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 20, 2017

It’s time to take your conference full frontal! It’s time to challenge and encourage your conference stakeholders to focus on engaging their brains at a higher level. It’s time to develop conference experiences that help your stakeholders think smarter. So how do we put full frontal into practice in our conferences?

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It is much more effective to provide opportunities for conference participants to solve their own problems, then telling them how to solve it. Conference organizers automatically assume that if someone is attending their event, they expect the conference to help them solve their problems. We want hints or tips immediately.

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InitLive

APRIL 17, 2019

Conferences are some of the best places to meet like-minded colleagues within the same industry or creative individuals who share similar interests. In an increasingly interconnected world where relationship is key for business, conferences are a must-have for proper networking. Try these five tips: 1. Find volunteers.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 28, 2017

However, your love affair with control can also stunt your conference growth! Hat Tips Rick James and Chic. You’re a conference organizer. A meeting professional. Your conference growth will be restricted. When you hit that ceiling, the size of your conference shrinks back to the size of your personal span of care.

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SevenEvents

MAY 26, 2022

As conference organisers, there is a lot to consider when planning a large-scale event. Deciding on your conference space is a big decision when working in corporate event management, as the space needs to work for your event brief. Below are 3 top tips to consider when choosing your next conference space.

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

If you have ever planned a meeting or event, then you know just how many details and tasks are involved to execute it. It doesn’t matter how much experience you have, you’ll still need an action plan to keep on top of what needs to be done, and when. And that’s where an event planning checklist comes in.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 19, 2017

They would embrace the context of each dimension much like you need to embrace these current conference programming trends. Five More Cadillac Conference Programming Trends. Here are the next five 2017 conference programming trends. Strategically Using The Conference As An On-Ramp Not A Cul-De-Sac. Take a look at them.

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Eventinterface

JUNE 3, 2018

Today, we are speaking with Julia on how Meeting and Event Professionals can make their projects sustainable and what this means to the success story of these events. Listen to show host Al Wynant and guest Julia Spangler discuss the following: How we should interpret “sustainability” in the context of the meetings and event industry?

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Eventinterface

JUNE 3, 2018

Today, we are speaking with Julia on how Meeting and Event Professionals can make their projects sustainable and what this means to the success story of these events. Listen to show host Al Wynant and guest Julia Spangler discuss the following: How we should interpret “sustainability” in the context of the meetings and event industry?

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Hubilo Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By now you probably already know how to host a virtual conference. But what does it take to run a virtual conference that delivers? Most importantly, a virtual conference that achieves its goals. Organizing a virtual conference is an intricate process that involves many layers. What is a virtual conference?

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Coterie Spark

JUNE 28, 2021

Overwhelmed by fall conference planning options? Well partner, what’s it gonna be: a virtual, in-person, or hybrid conference this fall? COVID-19 has changed the world, and has shifted how events and conferences are imagined/planned, it’s a new frontier! Virtual Conferences. In-Person Conferences.

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Boomset

AUGUST 5, 2018

If you are chosen to be a conference organizer, you should take it as an opportunity to give back to the society. In case networking is not your thing, conference planning should be a chance to share your talent with the guests. Do you want to know how to plan an efficient and effective conference event?

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Eventinterface

JUNE 20, 2017

Meeting and event professionals are very much aware of the security challenges generated by bringing people together. They plan for accidents, venue problems, protesters, weather related issues, and much more. One piece of advice stood out most: planning event security is not a task that should be accomplished in isolation.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 17, 2019

Conference planning is a complex and intense task, with a whole host of ways in which things can go wrong. Attending a conference can prove to be quite disorienting and complicated and a lot of that has to do with specific event descriptions. More : 8 Essential Email Writing Tips. Use these tips to get it right.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Planning a conference, planning an event for a huge crowd, an event where you are supposed to present your company, products, services, etc. In order to reduce the chances of that happening to you, take a look at some tips and tricks that will help you deal with stress better and boost your productivity. That isn’t easy.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Well, hammer meet nail. Nail says to hammer, “Hammer, meet screwdriver, pliers, wrench, saw and the entire toolbox of unique tools to solve different challenges. When planning meetings, conferences and events, ask yourself, “What hammers are these people bringing to this experience?

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