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How To Help Two Local Food Communities Impacted by COVID-19

Picatic by Eventbrite

The beloved Bay Area non-profit La Cocina has spent 15 years building a community of female food entrepreneurs, incubating about 125 businesses owned by immigrants and people of color and helping to launch 33 brick-and-mortar locations. In the past two months, however, those businesses, like many around the world, have been severely impacted by the […].

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10 Virtual Trade Show Platforms for Your Next Event

EventMB

As virtual meetings and conferences become more common, we can only assume that online trade shows are next. Although they're more complicated to transition online, there is existing tech to assist. Here are ten tools for organizing virtual trade shows. More and more major events are announcing online alternatives after canceling their in-person gatherings, […].

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Event Integrity transitions to new ownership

Event Industry News

Today, Event Integrity®, a Denver, CO-based company with a mission to empower those staffing and organizing events with experienced, transparent, and trusted professionals, announces the purchase of the company’s assets. Elizabeth Glau, the current owner of EGCX Group and previous owner of Building Blocks Social Media, is the new owner of Event Integrity.

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Webinar Fatigue: Learn Your Way Around It!

Endless Events

It’s time we talk about webinar fatigue. Because as the events industry makes its shift to virtual, this issue increases. Many people are home right now, and it’s not uncommon for some to attend several webinars a week. And some even go through several a day! So it’s no wonder attendees are starting to experience this phenomenon of webinar fatigue.

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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The Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) looks forward to the 2021 season

Event Industry News

With over 200 members, 100+ of which are Festivals, the AFO has been supporting its membership to help them get through this most difficult year. With the news mostly a bit bleak on the festival scene The Association’s team, based in Matlock, decided to start early in promoting its member festivals for what is hoped to be a bumper season in 2021. “The virus has certainly taken its toll in 2020” said Steve Heap Gen.

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PlanetIMEX: The wraps come off IMEX’s imaginative new online experience

Event Industry News

PlanetIMEX launches today with an invitation to everyone in the global meetings, events and incentive travel industry to register free of charge for EduMonday Live on 11 May. . Today also marks the unveiling of the first two islands on PlanetIMEX – Education Island and Community Island. These rich, engaging 3-D online experiences will be complemented by a third, Networking Island, due to launch 14 May with a focus on networking and business introductions. .

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Sponsorship Opportunities for Digital Events

PCMA Convene

How can digital events create sponsorship opportunities like the 2nd AAT-AD/PD Focus Meeting 2020 did (above)? Event planners explored the topic in a recent PCMA Catalyst forum post. PCMA’s Catalyst community offers members a platform to ask each other questions, share ideas, or, as the website says, “communicate and collaborate.” Here’s a sampling from a recent Catalyst discussion.

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Beyond Virtual Happy Hours: 10 Remote Team-Bonding Ideas

Bizzabo

COVID-19 has changed the way we interact with colleagues. Learn 10 impactful ways to bond with your team while maintaining social distancing best practices. Whether you're a remote work veteran or have just recently transitioned because of COVID-19, you're probably wondering how to facilitate team-bonding opportunities and maintain positive company culture from a distance.

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Event Techonology Awards 2020 Meet the Judges: Marco Giberti

Event Industry News

The Event Technology Awards celebrate the successful development and implimentation of technology in the events industry. The judging panel for the awards is a stellar line-up of experts and we’d like to introduce them to you in our Meet the Judges series, this week we present Marco Giberti, Founder and CEO of Vesuvio Ventures. What experience can you draw upon to successfully judge the ETAs?

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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Event Technologist: An Interview with Eric Kingstad

SpotMe

The event technologist, an interview with Eric Kingstad, who is the principal technologist at Kingstad Technologies, and has been in. The post Event Technologist: An Interview with Eric Kingstad appeared first on SpotMe.

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Podcast: The power of podcasting

Event Industry News

My guest this week is Jason Allan Scott, an award-winning Entrepreneur, Podcaster, Bestselling Author and CEO of A Podcast Co. In this episode, we discussed how podcasting can be a powerful alternative to launching a virtual event. If you’re an organiser with a focus on delivering great content, then podcasting should be considered as it drains far fewer resources than virtual event platforms.

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Five Ways to Nurture Your Event Community from a Distance

Special Events

Meryl Snow shares ways to keep the events community strong despite distancing requirements.

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New one-day training course launched for exhibition marketers

Event Industry News

A brand-new, one day training course has been launched today dedicated to providing essential training to marketing teams working within the exhibition industry. Taking place in a central London location on Thursday 15 October 2020, the Exhibition Marketer’s Masterclass will offer sessions designed to educate exhibition marketers in key strategies, technologies and tactics in how to bring audiences back to postponed events, entice new audiences and be a strategic part of building their event por

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B2B Events in 2023 - What You Need to Know

Get ahead of the curve and stay informed with Zuddl's industry report on the future of B2B events in 2023. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights from leading experts in the field. Make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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Free Online Resources for the Sales Professional

Unique Venues

Free Online Resources for the Sales Professional. By Brian Finn | Marketing Advisor, Unique Venues. As we thankfully turn the calendar away from April yet begin our third month of social distancing, I’d like to dedicate some time and resources to the army of dedicated sales professionals from coast to coast who are likely waiting not so patiently for the opportunity to return to their craft.

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Messe Frankfurt UK takes on international event portfolio

Event Industry News

Messe Frankfurt UK has this month grown to incorporate the sales and marketing of the full international portfolio of the organiser’s 160 events into their team, based near Guildford, Surrey. Under the leadership of Simon Albert, the Messe Frankfurt UK subsidiary has been responsible for the organisation of Automechanika Birmingham since its acquisition in 2018, and now adds the sales of Messe Frankfurt’s entire portfolio of shows as a string to its bow.

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Wait, What Just Happened? How Event Value Propositions are Changing Due to Covid-19

Nth Degree

COVID-19 caught the world by surprise, forcing countries to close down industry, severely limit travel, and make a host of changes they never could have foreseen. These choices will be studied, second-guessed, and scrutinized for many years. We may never see a clear picture on which decisions were incontestably correct and which were undeniably wrong.

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Austrian Supreme Court rules against Viagogo, forcing transparency on ticketing platforms

Event Industry News

Austria’s Supreme Court (OGH) has ordered Viagogo to better inform its buyers about the identity of ticket sellers and the type of ticket being sold by a seller before a purchase is made. The ruling forces viagogo.at and any other Viagogo or similar websites affecting Austria to disclose the identity of ticket sellers, including name and address, and whether tickets are personalised, ahead of ticket purchase.

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

Download 200+ new RFP questions for hybrid and virtual event technology success. After 10,000 downloads, the SpotMe Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template is the ultimate procurement tool for event technology. This template is ideal for companies looking for a vendor to fulfill their specific virtual + hybrid event platform needs and requirements!

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Training Industry

Arlo Training & Events Software

Arlo CEO John Mitchell recently ran a live Q&A webinar in conjunction with Candlefox , a company that works closely with education providers to increase their enrolments. John was joined by Candlefox’s Commercial Strategy Manager Claudia Reiners and UK General Manager Sarah-Jane McQueen. The panel of training industry experts answered questions from the audience and shared the results of recent industry research.

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Water and Waste Management with D-tox

Event Industry News

For 25 years, D-Tox have been helping festivals large and small with water and waste management, ensuring your guests have the right sanitation solutions. Here at D-Tox we have all the sanitation options you’ll need to keep your events running smoothly. From standard portable toilets to wheelchair access and portable urinals. We also provide water bowsers and plastic effluent (tuff) tanks to ensure you have the complete portable sanitation solution.

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Pent-Up Demand Could Be Good — and Bad — for Reviving Events

Skift

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How to build floor plans for social distancing (and do the impossible)

Planning Pod

The coronavirus pandemic has been upon us for 2 months and unfortunately the end is nowhere in sight. However, despite all the death, sickness, economic carnage, physical distancing, travel bans and massive life changes this has brought on us all, it’s refreshing to talk to so many business owners – including those of hard-hit restaurants and event venues – who still have a positive outlook for resetting their business when social distancing measures start to relax , bit-by-bit.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Hybrid Events For Your Association

For associations, the hybrid model is the future of the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) industry. Hybrid events provide increased reach and scalability, improved engagement with association members, and insights from real-time analytics, making them an absolute necessity. This ready-to-use playbook presents a framework for event organizers embarking on the hybrid events journey.