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Lessons Learned From Planning Singapore’s First Hybrid Event

PCMA Convene

“[WiT Experience Week] was such a golden opportunity to do something [in-person]. People were yearning to be together,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, founder of Web in Travel (WiT), a multimedia platform focused on travel, technology, and Asia. Yeoh Siew Hoon is no stranger to taking big leaps. Unsatisfied with the industry conferences and events she attended for years as a business events journalist, she decided to start her own event — Web in Travel (WiT).

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Top Apps for Events

Event Industry News

Covid thinking took just about everything off the high street and into the ether. Event apps were there already of course but the very best of them have progressed over the last 10 months to provide for the virtual world and to prepare for a hybrid future on the other side of the pandemic. The cornerstones – focus, intuition, response time and ease of use – are as crucial as ever but, inside them, there is more reach, more capacity to make a difference for people on either side of the doors, in

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4 Tips for Better Internal Virtual Events

SmartMeetings

Client satisfaction starts from within… conquer your internal virtual events. When we talk about events, it sometimes seems meeting professionals are mostly referring to events their clients or companies host for customers or sales partners, rather than meetings for employees —which can be just as important, if not more so. “This is a topic that I think warrants attention,” says Brian Ludwig, senior vice president of sales for Cvent.

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4 Major Trends for the Event Industry in 2021

Event Industry News

It’s hard to predict what exactly will happen with events in 2021, but we do know that some trends created in 2020 to enhance safety and prevent the spread of the coronavirus will continue into the new year. Here’s a look at the top four trends for the events industry in 2021: Catering. There’s been an increase in catering during the pandemic, and that’s because catering solves several problems for consumers.

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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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Nick Borelli Joins Allseated! 

All Seated

Industry veteran, Nick Borelli, has joined the Allseated team bringing his passion for enhancing attendee experiences and supporting those who design them. Nick’s new role as Director of Marketing Growth will take advantage of his authority in the worlds of virtual and face to face gatherings. Nick’s first foray in digital marketing began in the mid-1990s (the early days of online marketing) as a web designer.

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Tomorrow is #SaveWeddingsNow Day

Special Events

Tomorrow, January 6, 2021 CAPE is calling on ALL wedding professionals to upload a 0:15sec-1:00min story to their website, describing how the ban on wedding receptions has impacted you.

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How to grow your virtual event audience in 2021

InGo

For event marketers, years’ worth of digital transformation took place last year within just a few months, ushering in a new era of change and challenge. Unlimited by physical boundaries, the pressure is now on to grow your online audience with the right people. The sudden explosion of virtual events has also increased competition for your audience and there is a real risk of losing them – and your market share.

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2021 State of the Industry Forecast, part 2

Special Events

Part 2 of the State of the Industry 2021 forecast.

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Using The Smart Date Editor

Caterease

The post Using The Smart Date Editor appeared first on Caterease.

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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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Tomorrow is #SaveWeddingsDay

Special Events

Tomorrow, January 6, 2021 CAPE is calling on ALL wedding professionals to upload a 0:15sec-1:00min story to their website, describing how the ban on wedding receptions has impacted you.

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The danger of our drive to make sense

Conferences that Work

In our natural desire to predict the future and make good decisions, we must always stay mindful of the danger of our drive to make sense. Nick Chater and George Loewenstein propose that evolution has produced a ‘drive for sense-making’. They argue that sense-making…. …is a fundamental human motivation. …is a drive to simplify our representation of the world.