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DECEMBER 7, 2020
So you’re hosting a livestreaming event. Maybe it’s your first, or maybe you’ve tackled a couple video streams already. You understand the basics of streaming. But now it’s time to add a new twist: You’ve nailed down a few special guests. Exciting stuff! Even in a pre-COVID-19 world, adding new faces to your event adds […].
GEVME
DECEMBER 7, 2020
When the aim is to throw a good show and bring individuals together, you want to make sure you get it right. In this time and age, there are different approaches you can take to host an event. For social events where the goal is to inform, enlighten, create discourse, or even commemorate a particular day, you would typically host a live, face-to-face event.
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Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Do you know what to draw? Perhaps — if someone has told you to draw it. Do you know what you’re going to draw? That’s a different question. It implies that you have some agency to draw what and how you like. Beginning creation. Picasso answered the second question like this: “To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.” —Pablo Picasso, Conversations with Picasso by Brassaï.
EventMB
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Happy hours have long been a staple of networking activities at live events, but they’ve been largely left out of the virtual scene. Now that more planners have learned to do without it, some are questioning whether it should be reintroduced at hybrid events. Somewhat ironically, the biggest reason to include alcohol is also the […]. The post Is It Time to Reconsider Serving Alcohol at Events?
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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.
PCMA Convene
DECEMBER 7, 2020
In Phase 3 of virtual events, participants want more highly produced sessions that look like TV, says Beth Surmont. People commit to virtual events differently than in-person events. They don’t travel to them, so they still have all of their home responsibilities. They are unwilling to do sessions after 6 p.m. (someone has to make dinner), and no one likes sessions on Saturdays.
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Special Events
DECEMBER 7, 2020
We spoke with creative professionals across the industry to see how they’re using the last weeks of 2020 to prepare for a more fruitful 2021. Here’s what they had to say.
PCMA Convene
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Splash CEO Ben Hindman will discuss “Seven Change Actions: 14 Questions to Answer Before Designing Your Next Event” at Convening Leaders 2021. Ben Hindman has been in love with event planning his entire life. Long before he became national events manager for media website Thrillist in 2008, he helped organize his high-school prom and threw events for fraternities in college.
Event Industry News
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Story Events have just announced the new dates for their award-winning London Summer Events Show which will now be staged at its traditional City home, Banking Hall, on Wednesday 5 th and Thursday 6 th May 2021. CEO Sam Gill comments “We have chosen these dates based on the increasing confidence from Government that the vaccination roll-out will deliver a safe and full return to live events after Easter.
PCMA Convene
DECEMBER 7, 2020
The California Mermaid Convention met for the first time as a virtual event in 2020. (Illustration by Carmen Segovia). Ariel longed to be human in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” but there’s a community of people who would love to trade places with her and live under the sea. Those kindred spirits attend the California Mermaid Convention, which started as Mermaid Weekend in Sacramento before growing to a full convention in 2019.
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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
Event Industry News
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Trade Show University Podcast for Virtual and Live Events is launching a special series of episodes running from Monday December 7 through December 16 on the Future Leaders of the Event and Exhibition industry. Each episode will feature a recipient of the Helen Brett Scholarship which is sponsored by the IAEE. Trade Show University host Jim Cermak was excited to help give these recipients a voice and share their enthusiasm on the industry they will be joining.
Event Birdie
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Meet Jimmy Busteed. Currently the General Manager Sales at Australian Turf Club, Jimmy shares with us how the Meetings and Events business at the venues [including Royal Randwick and Rosehill Gardens ] adapted quickly, while learning all they could from operating the Race Days – the only sport to continuously remain active during 2020… 1.
webMOBI
DECEMBER 7, 2020
It is an understatement to say that the year 2020 has been unpredictable. With the pandemic making it difficult to go outside, planning large events has definitely become more and more difficult. With thousands of people getting sick, being hospitalized and even dying, there has been a new norm with how we interact with each […].
Event Industry News
DECEMBER 7, 2020
AYRE is a creative events company specialising in everything from Event Production and Virtual/ Hybrid Events to Event Equipment Hire and Technical Venue Support. Based in Yorkshire, with many years’ experience in the Events Industry, it’s hard to find something that the team hasn’t done. From producing an awards event within a Cathedral to supporting a product launch in an Aircraft Hangar, our team has been on hand for a variety of different events, all with different needs.
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webMOBI
DECEMBER 7, 2020
It is an understatement to say that the year 2020 has been unpredictable. With the pandemic making it difficult to go outside, planning large events has definitely become more and more difficult. With thousands of people getting sick, being hospitalized and even dying, there has been a new norm with how we interact with each […].
Skift
DECEMBER 7, 2020
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PCMA Convene
DECEMBER 7, 2020
The difference between concentrating only on what’s easily quantified while equally attending to the more fluid, nonmaterial return on experi- ence is the difference between a jar that you’ve filled with lightning bugs and a jar in which you’ve managed to catch lightning. (Illustration by Cordell Ross, Fruition Co.). Back in January — what seems like a lifetime ago — an accomplished and diverse group of business event strategists, brand experience managers, designers, and association and marketi
PCMA Convene
DECEMBER 7, 2020
COVID-19 has caused the business events industry to rethink everything. (Illustration by Malisa Suchanya). We cannot minimize the loss of life and suffering caused by the virus, which continues to profoundly alter our world. What we offer on the following links are curated examples of how our industry and its supporting sectors have responded to this massive health and economic crisis.
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