April, 2018

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How to Plan a Zero-Waste Event (and Steps to Getting There)

PCMA Convene

Earth Day is just around the corner, and the 2018 focus is ending plastic pollution. Julia Spangler, Sustainable Events Consultant ‘Think about [sustainability efforts] as a process of continuous improvement.’ Events play an important role in reducing waste, from finding alternatives to using plastic water bottles and using more compostable materials all the way to becoming a zero-waste event — an event that diverts 90 percent of discarded resources away from landfills or incinerato

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Gender Pay Gap in the Events Industry

PCMA Convene

Photo Credit Adobe Stock. Why is April 10 Equal Pay Day? It’s not arbitrarily decided to earmark one day each year in April to spotlight the gender pay gap. The date reinforces a point: It takes women nearly four months longer to catch up to a man’s annual salary. Equal Pay Day began in 1996 in an effort to draw attention to the gender wage gap in the U.S., and in the 20-plus years since, the needle hasn’t moved much. .

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What GDPR Means for Event Marketers

Certain

The go-live date for upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is right around the corner. After May 25th, U.S. event marketers will be expected to know how this will affect the ways that they are managing and collecting data in Europe, and examine their current practices to become compliant before the regulation goes into effect.

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Conferences Need More Sharing

Velvet Chainsaw

One of the strongest intangible attributes of a healthy conference is how much sharing takes place. Too often, competition and self-interest get in the way of sharing what’s most helpful. Professions that deliver conference sessions with a high level of sharing – not diluted or generalized from the stage – are often in fields linked to prevention, healthcare, education and philanthropy.

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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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11 Ways To Save Money Planning Your Next Fundraising Event

Picatic by Eventbrite

So, you’re in charge of your organization’s next fundraising event. Anyone who’s planned an event before knows that if you’re not careful, your event can go from a fundraiser to fund-drainer in no time at all, so how can you find the perfect balance between cutting costs and throwing an event that becomes the trending […]. The post 11 Ways To Save Money Planning Your Next Fundraising Event appeared first on Picatic Event Planning Blog.

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The creative event design tool that all #eventprofs should use

Conferences that Work

Here’s a powerful tool you can use to generate creative event designs. You can use this tool for every aspect of event design. Stylists working on the look and feel of an event often use it to stimulate fresh thinking about the venue, the décor, the lighting, the food and beverage, entertainment, and so on. Rarely, however, is this tool used to design events that creatively incorporate, illuminate, and support core desires and outcomes for the meeting.

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How to Increase Attendee Engagement Before an Event

Eventmobi

When preparing for an event, a lot of attention is spent focusing on how to create an engaging experience during the actual event. What tends to only be considered until the very end of the planning process, if at all, is how to maximize attendee engagement before an event takes place. You don’t want all your weeks and months of hard work in designing an amazing event experience to have been in vain, so it’s crucial that you think about how to promote your event and get attendees excited before

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Benefits of Launching Your Event App Way Before the Event

Quickmobile

The phrase, ‘the early bird catches the worm’, couldn’t be more applicable to event apps. Essentially, the earlier you launch your event app, the better. However, this isn’t usually the case. Many event apps get left to the last minute as there are a million other things on an event profs mind leading up to the day of the event. One of the main reasons we tell our clients to launch their event app well in advance is because it can help determine the overall success of the event, and help achieve

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Finding Purpose as an Event Professional

Eventinterface

On this episode of Event TALK, I am speaking with TJ Loeffler, a high-impact motivator, and founder and CEO of Loeffler International. After working as a sales analyst for Goldman Sachs, TJ began a search for purpose as an entrepreneur. TJ's life took a few turns before he hit emotional rock bottom. Forced with a decision to make, TJ took another step of faith, now empowering others in his true calling as a speaker and life coach.

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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 Promotion: 100 Creative (Free and Cheap) Ideas to Try Now

EventMB

I think we can all agree, an event with no attendees is going to flop. You want every event you produce to be a sell out. Or at least get a respectable number of registrations through the door, in line with your targets. But how can you attract more attendees, even if you have no […]. The post Event Promotion: 100 Creative (Free and Cheap) Ideas to Try Now by EventMB Team appeared first on [link].

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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Event Planning

GEVME

As Peter Drucker once said, “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” When organising a successful party or a business meeting for one of the most demanding category of event-goers, corporate staff, you need a well-laid-out plan. How do you know what bells and whistles will wow your audience? How do you manage your event team?

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. A recent thread on the MECO community (a great resource for meeting professionals since 2006) describes numerous recent basic logistical failings, and points to what I see as symptoms of fundamental problems with meeting industry associations at the national level.

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Designing Great Events: Tips from CSE Live

Eventmobi

Being an Event Coordinator with the huge responsibility of designing great events is one of the most stressful jobs one can have. It comes right after being a firefighter, police officer, or military personnel. And after attending CSE Live (which is where I also happened to learn that aforementioned fact) I got to see why. As a Project Manager on the Professional Services team at EventMobi, I work one-on-one with our clients in order to deliver a great event experience through the use of our tec

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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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What I learned from organizing my first hackaton

Gallus Events

The Homeless Hackathon in Glasgow took place on the weekend (as Hackathons tend to do) of the 13/15 April at the brilliant Citizen M hotel. I organised the event from start to finish and it’s been added to the ever growing list of over 700 events that I can put my name next to. Like every event there is a similar process to follow to make it happen, however a hackathon is quite unlike any other event I have organised.

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Creativity for Meeting and Event Planners

Eventinterface

Get ready to reignite your creativity. Guest Robert Evans Wilson, Jr., award-winning writer and speaker shares his top tips and tools for meeting and event planners to be creative. Listen to host Al Wynant and guest Robert Wilson discuss the following: Overcoming creativity block. How to overcome conformity and ignite creativity. How to inspire diverse teams to be creative.

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16 Health Conscious Event Ideas

EventMB

Many attendees are becoming more and more health conscious and event planners are keen to offer healthy ideas and alternatives that appeal to them. Promoting healthier choices and wellbeing needn’t be intimidating, and it will give you the opportunity to connect and please a diverse range of people, all holding a common mindset. You want […]. The post 16 Health Conscious Event Ideas by EventMB Team appeared first on [link].

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How Will the Events Industry Change after GDPR Enforcement

GEVME

With the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, businesses around the world must adapt to suit this brand new data protection policy. As the broadest modification in data privacy laws since 1995, the GDPR is going to be a game changer in every industry that deals with data collection. We’ve decided to explore how event businesses should perform effective due diligence today to avoid painful punishments in May.

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Dominate Your Local Market With These 4 Reputation Management Strategies

Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.

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Are SMART goals stupid?

Conferences that Work

Neil Morrison thinks that SMART objectives are stupid. A quick reminder from Neil: “ SMART stands for: S pecific M easurable A chievable/Attainable R ealistic T ime-bound/Timely The idea being that if you want to set a goal/objective then it should be all of these things…” So far, so good. “…which is cute, but wrong.” Which is where I disagree.

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Beyond Event Updates: Rethinking Your Strategy for Event App Notifications

Eventmobi

Event app notifications, alerts, messages – your event technology likely has different ways you can communicate to and update your attendees. Traditionally, you might consider these tools as vehicles for communicating time-sensitive updates like speaker changes, room adjustments or letting them know lunch has been served. However, looking beyond these as a means to simply communicate and considering other use cases is a great strategy for optimizing your messaging to attendees.

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7 Event Organisers Reveal Their Biggest Mistakes (And Lessons Learned)

Eventbrite UK

We speak to seven event organisers about the biggest mistakes they have made - and what they now do differently as a result. The post 7 Event Organisers Reveal Their Biggest Mistakes (And Lessons Learned) appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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7 Top Tips to Manage Temporary Event Staff and Volunteers

Eventinterface

Managing event staff is a bit like herding cats. It can be tricky enough to know whether everyone is doing exactly what they are supposed to when you are relying on a loyal team of permanent workers. But throw a few temporary workers and volunteers, a tight schedule, and a particularly busy event into the mix, and things have the potential of going very wrong.

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5 Things Businesses Need to Know to Thrive in a Post-COVID World

People are itching to get back into the world. 54% of consumers say they plan to dine out at a restaurant at least once a week this year. As COVID-19 restrictions ease, the competition for their business is stronger than ever. Download this eBook today to learn how your restaurant can be prepared!

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The Most Common AV Fails and How to Handle Them Like a Pro

EventMB

This is a sponsored post by Aria AV. More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. Even with a near-infinite budget, at some point technology is going to let you down. Whether it’s ear-splitting audio feedback or a completely unreadable PowerPoint, it’s only a matter of time. Sometimes, […].

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Common Misconceptions about GDPR in Event Planning

GEVME

If you’re in the events industry, you’ve likely heard many myths and facts surrounding one of the buzziest data protection regulations, GDPR. When the news about GDPR shook the world in 2016, most businesses were in the dark about how to handle it. This gave birth to a huge variety of misconceptions about GDPR compliance in the events industry. Today, with GDPR enforcement knocking at everyone’s door, we’ve decided to clear things up.

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The UnExpo Experiment

Conferences that Work

During my 20+ years as an IT consultant and developer, I fell in with a delightful international crowd of software testers: those all-important people responsible for the impossible task of making sure that software works the way it’s supposed to. (Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.

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Tips for Using Event Gamification to Boost Attendee Learning & Engagement

Eventmobi

The desire to educate or inform attendees is a common event goal for many event planners. If this is an objective you share, it’s mission critical that you do everything in your power to ensure attendees are getting the greatest amount of value out of the event content and walking away feeling like they learned something. This is where utilizing event gamification can make the difference in achieving your goals.

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A CHRO’s Perspective on Substance Use in the Workplace: Supportive Strategies to Help Your Workforce Thrive

Speaker: Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Psychiatry and Naj Wright, MBA, C-Suite HR Executive

The last year and a half has been one of extreme stress and anxiety for the American Workforce. A 2021 New York University School of Global Public Health survey of 5,850 people who drink alcohol found that 29 percent have increased their drinking during the pandemic. Among people who have been experiencing depression (64% more likely) and anxiety (41% more likely), which have also become more prevalent over the last 18 months, the risk is even higher.

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Creative Ways Meeting Planners Used Event Spaces

Quickmobile

From the speakers to the food, there is a lot that goes into an event to contribute to its success. While there are many factors that make an event successful, perhaps the most important one is the event space. Choosing the right event space can make or break your event. Here are 4 examples of how event planners have utilized an event space to their advantage: 1.

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Top Tips on Marketing your Conferences and Events

Eventinterface

Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE. Traditional marketing techniques no longer work. Attendees change their identities faster than a chameleon changes color. Today’s postmodern consumer defies categorization, making it a challenge for event and meeting planners to market their projects. In this podcast, Michael Solomon, a professor of marketing, industry consultant and author of “Marketers Tear Down These Walls!

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15 Best Live Streaming Apps for Events – Ranked

EventMB

Live streaming is a huge opportunity to make more money for your event. I personally tested and reviewed 15 free and paid tools. If you want the short story, here are the top 10 live streaming apps: Livestream Facebook Live Youtube Live Twitch Wowza Dacast Streamshark Zype JW Live IBM Video Methodology The categories I […]. The post 15 Best Live Streaming Apps for Events – Ranked by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link].

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