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MARCH 13, 2019

You’re backstage before the show when you see your headlining band horsing around. “This is a Facebook Live moment,” you think. You whip out your iPhone, queue up your Facebook app, and hit “Go Live.” But things quickly go wrong. Your WiFi connection is wonky, the lighting is murky, and just as you’re finally getting […]. The post The Facebook Live Team’s Top 6 Tips for Event Creators appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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Early bird ticket sales are a fantastic idea for event planning. By offering a discount of between 20–40%, you can really promote your event for attendees and significantly boost your ticket sales. Our event ticketing software will help you on your way to selling more tickets for events with early bird options. Why early bird tickets are important for your event tickets sales.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Thinking about starting your own event planning business? Here are the 6 steps you need to get started. The post How to Start an Event Planning Business: The Vital Steps appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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This is a case study from Zenus. Look for more information about Event Manager Blog’s case studies. Keller Williams (KW) Family Reunion is one of the real estate industry’s most powerful training events. The inaugural event took place in 2005 in Las Vegas and attracted an audience of 7,400 people. In 2019, the four-day […]. The post Streamlining Registration At Large Events With Face Recognition [Case Study] by Zenus appeared first on [link].

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MARCH 13, 2019

You love the cause of your nonprofit event, and you know others do, too. So why aren’t they registering for your event? If you aren’t taking advantage of the data that you can gather from your ticketing and social platforms, you’re missing out on a treasure trove of information that can take your nonprofit event […]. The post 2 Simple Steps to Boost Attendance at Your Nonprofit Events appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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MARCH 13, 2019

The Special Olympics World Games are set to begin in Abu Dhabi (March 14 th to 21 st ), as the event hits the Middle East for the first time in its history. This showpiece event for athletes with intellectual disabilities incorporates more than 7,000 competitors from 200 nations, competing in 24 summer sports. The opening ceremony, featuring Avril Lavigne, Paul Oakenfold and others, will be at the Zayed Sports City stadium on Thursday.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Cities across the United States are going green this weekend—not of the eco-friendly sort. They will be sporting all shades of green in celebration of the annual St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday. If you find yourself in one of these cities during the holiday, throw on some green, head to a pub, enjoy the festivities and embrace the culture. Chicago. Line up along the Chicago River at 9 a.m. to watch as it’s dyed an emerald green in celebration of the Irish holiday, followed by a parade —beginning on

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MARCH 13, 2019

An outdoor stairway snakes from the Edmonton Convention Centre to a perch above the North Saskatchewan River. The ECC sources 60 percent of its food locally and has an urban beehive, three gardens, and a living wall. Cities emit more than 70 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide , according to an analysis revealed at the inaugural Cities and Climate Change Science Conference sponsored by CitiesIPCC and held March 5-7, 2018 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Washington has had the reputation as a good ole boys club for decades. If you weren’t in the inner circle, getting things done on Capitol Hill was an uphill battle, pun intended. However, times are changing. Not only are women taking over a larger portion of the seats at the table, a new wave of representatives is bringing about new opportunities for advancing legislation for associations.

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Social media can be a great tool to help you market your event before, during, and after, but if you’re not familiar with how to use different platforms for marketing, it can be daunting. Good social media marketing can greatly improve your ROI, though, so it’s worth it to learn how to maximize your social media reach when it comes to your conference.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 13, 2019

Social media is an important vehicle to promote any event. But as they get busier and noisier. This can make attracting attention to your posts much more difficult. So for an event to be noticed more and engage with the right audience, you need to be using #Hashtags. This guide will give you all the tools you need to use hashtags more effectively for your next Event.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Hot tech is taking hold in the event space. Are you ready to try something new for your participants? Here are 6 different ways to leverage one of the newest trends in event tech — AI. Take a quick read and click through to learn more from some of the companies noted below. Chatbots Chatbots […].

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MARCH 13, 2019

Altamer, Anguilla Located on the island’s Shoal Bay West Beach, Altamer Resort recently reopened Antilles Pearl Villa and unveiled Petit Topaz Villa. The Antilles Pearl is a five-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot villa. Included in this luxurious property is a 50-foot skywalk that protrudes over the sand and a rooftop terrace that provides a 360-degree view.

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MARCH 13, 2019

(3 Minute Read). Building a Community, Not Just an Audience. Engagement is the bedrock of human connection and in order to build a community, organizations need to engage with audiences beyond a yearly event. Developing opportunities that give audiences the ability to interact and connect with your brand over time, and in ways the they desire, allows fans to become your advocates.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

MARCH 13, 2019

Activities is one of the most powerful features of Tito. And one of the most misunderstood…. Generally when we explain our Activities feature to customers, they say something like “Oh, that’s really cool! But that’s not what I would have expected it to do, based on its name”. That’s a fair point. In our defense, naming features is hard! But we want to help clear things up.

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From meeting spaces to large exhibition halls, organisers often require a simple method to transform their current venue into a more workable space for their event. Traditional methods have included shell scheme or more widely used in the US, a pipe and drape solution. Both serve a purpose, but now there is an alternative – the temporary inflatable wall – a solution which can offer a much more flexible substitute to shell scheme.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Whether you hold your orientation face-to-face or remotely, this meeting is one of the essential parts of your event planning. After all, volunteers keep down in-house costs for an event, and they are very much part of the glue that holds a successful event together. Here are nine essentials of a great volunteer orientation meeting which are sure to keep your volunteers informed, engaged, and productive: 1.

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Handing out swag - or, “stuff we all get” - at events is an easy way to engage attendees and leave a lasting impression. The key, though, is to find an item that’s both useful enough that attendees won’t immediately throw it away, and interesting enough that they’ll talk about it with others. Now, we know budget is always a constraint - but let’s put money aside for the moment and have some fun!

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 13, 2019

Johnnie White. After three and a half years as a senior director, global education, meetings and strategic partnerships, at the American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, Johnnie White is making a career leap. Beginning April 15, White will take over as the executive vice president and CEO of the American Society of Appraisers. In an email announcement, he reflected on his time at AAO-HNS as an “opportunity to work with a number of great individuals” that helped him “create some

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MARCH 13, 2019

Eventbrite. Don’t just send surveys. Send surveys that attract a high volume of insightful responses from your meeting’s attendees. ( Eventbrite ). Read More.

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MARCH 13, 2019

From executives to operations, PersoniFest has a track for everyone to master the skills they use every day. Show Managers and EventProfs have an entire track dedicated just to them, but there’s so much more to learn during the conference. Marketing professionals will discover new ways to build relationships with their audience, while IT experts explore challenges and opportunities in areas like technology integrations and data security compliance.

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MARCH 13, 2019

PCMA President and CEO Sherrif Karamat addresses the 36th Annual COCAL Congress in Panama City, Panama. (Cocal Tweet). The COCAL Congress, the annual event for the meetings industry in Latin America, this year welcomed approximately 500 event professionals from 17 countries in Latin America, North America, and Europe. The 36th annual COCAL Congress was held at Panama City’s Megalopolis Convention Center Panama, March 12-15, and attracted an audience of 500, including professional meeting planner

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MARCH 13, 2019

Arnold Schwarzenegger greets fans at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus. (Photos courtesy Experience Columbus). In 1989, after winning the Mr. Olympia contest in Columbus every year between 1970-1975, bodybuilding legend Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with sports promoter Jim Lorimer, launched the very first Arnold Sports Festival. What began as a small, one-day professional bodybuilding competition in Columbus, with just 24 competitors, is now an international four-day festival that features

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Taking the time for have an initial consult for event AV can save you many headaches later in planning. Did you know having an initial consult for event AV can save you time, money and more? The initial consult for event AV allows you to get into the fine details of your event and ask clarifying questions that may otherwise be missed in an email. This consult also allows you to really get a good feel for the people and teams you will be working with prior to the event. .

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MARCH 13, 2019

CBS San Francisco. After years of limited supply, the city has hundreds of new hotel rooms and more on the way as soaring tourism numbers have pushed occupancy and room rates to record levels. ( KPIX 5 ). Read More.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Bloomberg. In a concerted effort to add more women to CERAWeek’s line-up, the conference’s organizers added a dinnertime panel on women in energy that had previously been an invite-only event. ( Bloomberg ). Read More.

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