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Ticket to Vote: Add Free Voter Registration to Your Events With HeadCount

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What do Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, and David Byrne all have in common, besides music? They each teamed up with HeadCount to register voters at their events, empowering fans to exercise their fundamental right to vote. Now, US event creators can do the same thanks to Eventbrite’s partnership with HeadCount, a non-partisan organization that registers people […].

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Why Are Live Events Still Moving Forward in Areas With a 99 Percent Risk of Infection?

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The live event industry is desperate to go back to business. Some events are willing to pursue a comeback at all costs, even if it means getting attendees sick. Who is right and who is wrong? The event industry is bleeding. Painting a nice picture is not helping anyone. If you know anyone who works […]. The post Why Are Live Events Still Moving Forward in Areas With a 99 Percent Risk of Infection?

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Ticket to Vote: Eventbrite + HeadCount Partner to Help the U.S. Exercise its Right to Vote

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We all have a civic responsibility to participate in Election Day to take action and make our voices heard. Every vote matters, no matter what you believe or who you support, yet only 56% of the U.S. voting-age population cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election. Lower voter turnout is often linked to confusion about […].

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Participants Will Pay for Virtual Events If the Content Is Compelling Enough

PCMA Convene

The Hague Convention Bureau’s first hybrid webinar welcomed five events professionals either in-person or virtually to the World Forum in The Hague. (Holland Park Media). When planning a hybrid and digital event, your content is the key to its success, panelists agreed during The Hague Convention Bureau’s first hybrid webinar. The panel members — a corporate planner, two association planners, a meeting-design expert, and a hotel executive — discussed the viability of hybrid events.

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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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Eventtia vs. Zoom: What’s the difference?

Eventtia

The popularity of virtual events and meetings is skyrocketing and this trend is only set to continue. But of course, none of this would be possible without the technology that makes connecting people online possible.

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New Feature Spotlight - Our Newest Virtual Platform Features

Stova

What’s better than shiny, new technology? As virtual event innovators, we here at MeetingPlay make it our mission to bring the best solutions to our clients. With that in mind, we have some exciting new virtual platform updates to share with the world.

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Trying to Solve for Networking in a Virtual Event

PCMA Convene

The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems was set to take place in Auckland, New Zealand, until the pandemic changed those plans. (Miles Holden). In March, it became obvious to Gita Sukthankar, Ph.D., that her conference was not going to happen as planned. It was a letdown for the associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Central Florida, who, as general chair of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agen

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4 Virtual Event Attendee Engagement Ideas

ePly

As event planners start tackling their first all-virtual event, one crossroad they tend to come to is.how do I harness the energy of an in-person event, and recreate that in an online environment? It’s true that some of the activities you would normally execute in-person just aren’t possible with a virtual event. That said, there are a ton of ways to translate those activities into a virtual experience, or execute something completely different!

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Deaf Institute and Gorilla saved from closure as buyer snaps up both venues

Event Industry News

Manchester music venues Gorilla and The Deaf Institute have both been saved from closure. Tokyo Industries, which owns clubs and bars including Impossible, The Factory and South, has snapped up both venues and says they’ll remain ‘at the forefront of the live music and club scene’ Staff will keep their jobs as part of the terms agreed between the company and the venues’ current owners Mission Mars, which announced their closure last week.

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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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How To Use Social Media To Market Your Event

CadmiumCD

Written by Delanie Olsen, Marketing Specialist at Total Event Resources. Most event planners understand the importance of using social media to market an event, but as each social media platform operates differently, it can be challenging to optimize all of them. Here are some factors to keep in mind when planning a social media strategy to market your next event.

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Rapid sell-out for Asia’s first post-Covid arena shows

Event Industry News

In Taiwan, the government lifted all limits on the number of people allowed to attend public gatherings, including cultural events, on 7 June, and removed the need for social distancing at concert halls and stadiums. The concerts are the first to be held at the venues since coronavirus restrictions were put in place early this year. A named ticket system is in place to facilitate track and trace at the shows, with fans asked to fill in their name and contact number on the ticket upon purchase, o

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Hopin Review: 2020 Virtual Event Tech Guide

SpotMe

Wondering which virtual event tool to choose? In this post, we share our 2020 Hopin review to help you make. The post Hopin Review: 2020 Virtual Event Tech Guide appeared first on SpotMe.

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Meetings Industry Association launches trust and trace tool

Event Industry News

The Meetings Industry Association (mia) has launched a tool enabling venues to manage the tracking and tracing of delegates, as part of its ongoing reopening support for the sector. Free to mia members featuring enhanced hygiene and infection prevention controls – the dedicated miaTrustedTrace tool enables venues to manage delegate contact information easily and safely.

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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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“Rock Your LinkedIn Profile”

All Seated

Learn how to Rock Your LinkedIn Profile in 30 minutes! Join Nawal Fakhoury, Director of Employee Experience at LinkedIn, to better understand how you can make your professional profile pop with a few simple tips. She’ll share suggested profile best practices and provide her top suggestions on how to leverage LinkedIn to connect to opportunity.

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From Legacy Pages to CONNECT

Click & Pledge

New location for donation forms. If you’re having trouble figuring out where your Legacy Portal donation forms are, you’re in the right place. For the thousands of you that joined the C&P family before 2016, you’ve likely noticed we made some changes to how the forms look and how you can use them. We believe these changes will empower you to accomplish your mission better than ever.

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Why Are Live Events Still Moving Forward in Areas With a 99 Percent Risk of Infection?

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Restaurants That Are Now Open For Dine-In In Florida

EventUp

Post-coronavirus, restaurants are slowly reopening in various stages — which started with takeout and delivery and has evolved into partial capacity for dine-in— in order to ensure a safe experience until the days of everyone operating at full capacity. We are just as excited as you to get out of our own messy kitchens and back into a restaurant enjoying food and drink crafted by someone else along with new and old friends.

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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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How Much are Organisers Charging for Virtual Events?

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

We’ve previously written about the different ways you can show value when selling tickets to your virtual events. What we didn’t cover however, was the question of how much organisers are charging for virtual events. Today, we’re going to share some research we’ve recently done on that very subject. For our sample (of 60 virtual events) we looked at events in the tech industry, specifically summits and conferences.

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