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Smart Moves in South Carolina, Missouri and More

Smart Meetings

Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Lilly was previously owner of End-N-Mind Destination and Event Management in South Carolina. Peckinpaugh spent the last 11 years as president of Maritz Global Events and will continue to hold this role in addition to his next. Tiffany Alves Hafer.

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Community versus audience in journalism and meetings

Conferences that Work

Here’s how Damon Kiesow , Knight Chair for Digital Editing and Producing at the Missouri School of Journalism , compares the concepts of community versus audience from a journalistic perspective. This brings us to a key question that is rarely openly discussed: Whom are conferences for? Yes, there’s a big difference.

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Better Because You Were There

Velvet Chainsaw

A number of our consulting clients have made social responsibility a cornerstone of their conference strategy — with the desire “to leave the host city better because we were there.” When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome. Reuse and Reduce.

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AC21: The Story Behind Planning the First Major Conference in Baltimore Since the Pandemic

Smart Meetings

By all measures, this week’s Destinations International Annual Conference 2021 (AC21) in Baltimore, Maryland, was a huge success. The story behind AC21 is a lesson in how important robust partnerships for meeting event production in this Covid-era. Or a completely on-site event at the scale of the 2019 conference in St.

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Venues for Summer Conferences

Unique Venues

Summer is an ideal time to have a conference. Having an overnight conference also gives your group the added benefit of having extra time to focus, and also gives them the opportunity to explore a new area. Here are our Top Picks for Venues for Summer Conferences. University of Illinois Conference & Special Events.

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Leaving Your Event’s Host City Better Because You Were There

PCMA Convene

With that in mind, we are dedicating the upcoming edition of Convene fully — our first single-topic issue — to the climate crisis, and what the business events industry is doing to address this global challenge. When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome.

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New and Renovated: Austin Exploration and Sunny Shores

Smart Meetings

Newly opened Thompson Austin is tailored to the needs of meetings and events professionals. of indoor and outdoor event space between one ballroom, four boardrooms and a fourth-floor restaurant. of event space, Origin Austin’s Flight Room can accommodate up to 49 guests for small to mid-sized meetings. With 799 sq.