Mon.Jul 09, 2018

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Challenging Our Conference Mental Models To Build Future Effective Events

Velvet Chainsaw

How do we think? And just as important, how and what do we think about our conferences and events? How do we understand our conference planning processes, its underlying assumptions, and our customers, partners, exhibitors, and stakeholders? How do we create knowledge about our conferences that serve as our cognitive maps and meaning structures during the planning and execution stages?

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How to design for powerful connection and learning at large meetings

Conferences that Work

Although you’d never guess it from reading meeting industry trade journals, most meetings are small meetings , and this is a good thing if you want effective and relevant connection and learning to take place. Large meetings stroke owners’ and leaders’ egos, can supply impressive spectacle, are appropriate places to launch campaigns and mass announcements, and can be very profitable.

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5 Best Event Invitation Email Examples

GEVME

An event is a puzzle, and if you don’t manage to craft a strong event invitation email, you can lose one of its fundamental pieces. This is especially true if you’re new to the world of event planning; it is a challenge to understand how people will respond to your invite. What can really be helpful here is tapping into your own inbox. Check out other event invites that made you sign up for various things, and try to spot any similarities.

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Engaging an online event audience

Gallus Events

So you have managed to get a bunch of people to log on and watch your online event. You have done all the hard work and congratulations! But don’t celebrate too soon. Engaging an online event audience is not as easy as you think. In June this year we ran another online seminar for our client Practically Perfect PA. We attracted over 500 paying attendees.

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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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Event Tech Tips for Corporate Event Planners

Core-apps

Event Tech Tips for Corporate Event Planners. “Forget talking about event technology, it’s time to take action!”. That was the rallying cry from our power-packed panel of event insiders on our recent webinar, “Event Tech Tips for Corporate Planners.”. Christy Lamagna , CEO and Master Strategist, Strategic Meetings & Events; Danalynne W. Menegus , Editor, Corporate Event News; Wayne Crawford, VP Sales, Core-apps; and Dahlia El Gazzar , Tech Evangelist + Idea Igniteur, DAHLIA+ Agency drew on t

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Event Marketers: Brand Experience is your new Strategic Priority

MPG Event Marketing

In recent years, the remit of the conference or exhibition marketer has expanded – mostly to cover more strategically critical areas of an event’s value proposition. The marketer’s role is no longer limited to planning and delivering a pre-event campaign to get ‘bums on seats’. It extends to how customers experience the event itself – i.e. the ‘ brand experience ’, or more often called the ‘customer experience’.

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10 New Philadelphia Venues for Summer Entertaining and Events

BizBash

Here's a look at new Philadelphia eateries, drinking spots, hotels, conference areas, private rooms, and other spaces for all types.

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Event Management Software Checklist

Hubilo Blog

Browsing the event industry news articles, I recently came across numerous technological trends being followed in the industry. A lot has changed in the recent past with the inception of tech in the events industry. New software has been created around the event planning and event management to ease the work of planners and organisers and to automate the entire event planning process.

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Events R Talented to shine spotlight on performing talent in the events industry

Event Industry News

Three events and travel companies, Chew Events, Sandals Resorts and One Night Only have come together to launch a talent competition in aid of events industry charity ‘Meeting Needs’. The organisers are calling for people from the events industry who can sing, dance, or have a passion for stand-up comedy to take part in ‘Events R Talented’. Entrants will audition over late summer and autumn in front of an audience of entertainment judges, who will be announced in due course.

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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 Marketers: Brand Experience is your new Strategic Priority

MPG Event Marketing

In recent years, the remit of the conference or exhibition marketer has expanded – mostly to cover more strategically critical areas of an event’s value proposition. The marketer’s role is no longer limited to planning and delivering a pre-event campaign to get ‘bums on seats’. It extends to how customers experience the event itself – i.e. the ‘ brand experience ’, or more often called the ‘customer experience’.

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NEC unveils new look for £4.5 million transformation

Event Industry News

The NEC has unveiled details of its extensive £4.5 million transformation which will completely change the look and feel of the iconic Birmingham based venue. The first phase of this three-year project – the exterior of Halls 1 and 5 – began in June and is set to be completed in late August. Kathryn James, Managing Director for NEC Group Conventions and Exhibitions said: “We have seen our NEC campus change radically over the past three years.

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Preventing Item Descriptions from Breaking Across Pages

Caterease

Preventing Item Descriptions from Breaking Across Pages Caterease Version: 18 Category: Event Manager Date: 07/09/2018. The post Preventing Item Descriptions from Breaking Across Pages appeared first on Caterease.

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Easyfairs continues Gleanin rollout

Event Industry News

Leading event organiser Easyfairs continues to rollout Gleanin’s referral marketing platform, Gleanin Connect, across its extensive portfolio of international events. After experiencing success using Gleanin Connect across a number of visitor acquisition campaigns for its events portfolio run out of the UK during 2016, Easyfairs has now implemented the platform on over 50 of its events taking place this year in Asia, Africa, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, S

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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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Fall Fashion Trends for Men and Women Attendees

Connect Your Meetings

Fall fashion is about to bloom. If experts are to be believed, both men and women will be flashing brighter colors in their autumn wardrobes. Top fashion magazines are touting bold colors, more neons and even reflective accents on clothing for fall 2018 for men and women. But how does that translate into the real world of the convention floor? Robanne Schulman, owner of Plaid Monkey and a wardrobe stylist for executives in Fortune 500 companies, says there is a way to be comfortable, yet trendy,

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Your Story Blog Series: Courtney Lohmann, CMP

Event Leadership Institute

When Courtney began her journey towards a career in events, the most relevant degree she could achieve was in Recreation & Leisure Services Administration with an emphasis in Special Events from The Florida State University. Since then, the events world has changed dramatically, many leading universities offer event programs and education, and the industry as a whole has drastically shifted, too.

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Attendees: Maximize Your Event Experience

Coterie Spark

FOR THE BEST POSSIBLE ATTENDEE EXPERIENCE, READ THIS NOW! Your RSVP is Yes. Your registration is in. You are taking your own time and committing it to being somewhere in order to accomplish a goal. Even something as simple as agreeing to meet someone for lunch has an end goal, even if it goes unsaid. You want to catch up, you want to network, you want to share news, etc.

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Announcing Partnership With Epic Party Team!

All Seated

AllSeated is excited to announce our newest furniture rental partnership with Epic Party Team. We’re continuing to grow our network of furniture rental company partners by offering users custom furniture items to use within their event floorplans! Epic Party Team serves the entire Southwest area with cutting edge entertainment services and party rentals.

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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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Humans of Hornblower: Hillary Wolford - Hornblower’s California Girl from West Virginia

Hornblower

At Hornblower, there are two qualities we admire — passion and determination. These traits are exemplified in our Marina del Rey Event Sales Manager, Hillary Wolford. It was seeing the word ‘cruises’ in the job ad that piqued Hillary Wolford’s interest in working for Hornblower Cruises & Events. In fact, she was so determined to work for the company that she applied to every open position in the San Francisco office.

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AllSeated Integration With Total Party Planner

All Seated

AllSeated is happy to announce its newest integration with Total Party Planner! In this 30 minute webinar, learn about Total Party Planner and how the integration works through a walkthrough of the platform with an open Q & A session providing opportunity to ask both teams your questions! The post AllSeated Integration With Total Party Planner appeared first on AllSeated.

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Live-polling and Q&A for meetings just got an upgrade! Meetoo’s summer product update is a scorcher

Event Industry News

2018 has seen Meetoo awarded the prestigious Bett award for higher education services, as well as become the highest independently-rated Polling and Q&A app on the market. Rated number 1 for live Polling and Q&A and climbing to the 23rd highest rated software company globally by independent review site Trustpilot , customers can’t seem to say enough good things about their experiences.