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Turning Presentations Into Conversations

PCMA Convene

Participants share with each other during a PCMA Convening Leaders 2106 session. You’re reading a great novel. Which parts do you find more engaging — descriptive prose or compelling dialogue? I personally find conversations more dynamic as they simply move the story forward. Now imagine that the whole novel has been written without a dialogue. Would you finish a book like that?

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What the Internet of Things Means for the Future of Event Management

Capterra Event Management

We are fast approaching the day where almost everything we do will be tied to some kind of network, whether that is the internet, or some replacement network such as the Metaverse. The first stab at bringing this science fiction concept into the real world is the “Internet of Things” (IoT). The Internet of Things is a network based on connecting everyday objects to the internet, creating a more efficient and data-driven network of everyday activities.

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15 Beautiful and Surprising Ideas for Spring Flowers

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Web Apps vs. Native Event Apps: What are the pros and cons?

Converve

Lots of traffic, not many apps. Comscore’s annual report on mobile internet use in the USA makes it clear: two out of three digital minutes are spent on mobiles! Of which, apps account for almost 90% of digital data traffic on mobile devices. The average smartphone user uses 25 apps per month, but: roughly 80% of mobile data use is spent on his/her three top apps.

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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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5 Questions for SmithBucklin President Matt Sanderson

PCMA Convene

On Jan. 1, Matt Sanderson became president and CEO of SmithBucklin, the world’s largest association management company. Formerly executive vice president and chief executive of SmithBucklin’s Business + Trade Industry Practice, Sanderson succeeded Henry Givray, who had been the company’s CEO since 2002. Before joining SmithBucklin in 2010, Sanderson consulted with the company on a strategic project, and was impressed from the first meeting on.

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10 Fun Ways to Celebrate Mother's Day

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Web Apps vs. Native Event Apps: What are the pros and cons?

Converve

Lots of traffic, not many apps. Comscore’s annual report on mobile internet use in the USA makes it clear: two out of three digital minutes are spent on mobiles! Of which, apps account for almost 90% of digital data traffic on mobile devices. The average smartphone user uses 25 apps per month, but: roughly 80% of mobile data use is spent on his/her three top apps.

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The True Cost of Rude Behavior at Work

PCMA Convene

In a recent article in Harvard Business Review , Georgetown University management professor Christine Porath reviews her 20 years of research into rudeness in the workplace — “from outright nastiness and intentional undermining to ignoring people’s opinions to checking email during meetings” — before sharing tactics for minimizing the effects of professional incivility.

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Send In the Clowns

PCMA Convene

Illustration by Carmen Segovia. World Clown Association Annual Convention March 7–11, 2016 International Palms Resort Orlando. Are clowns happy or sad when they’re not in the public eye? At the World Clown Association’s (WCA) Annual Convention, it’s a little bit of both. “I get inspired as I watch others,” WCA President Randy Christensen said about some of the performances at this year’s show.

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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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5 Ways to Help Your Speakers Be More Persuasive

PCMA Convene

Author and speaker Sue Hershkowitz-Coore, CSP, is known for her dazzling presentations. It’s why she goes by SpeakerSue, and why she’s tapped to speak all over the world — including at PCMA Convening Leaders 2016 this past January, where she delivered a session called “Be More Persuasive! Conversation and Presentation Techniques That Win Most.” Here, she offers five strategies that you can share with speakers to help them shine. 1.

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Bidding Wars

PCMA Convene

Just how competitive is it for DMOs that are bidding on meetings and conventions in 2016? Our May cover story was all about how Minneapolis and Montreal competed to win the Apimondia citywide meeting. Here’s what some other destinations are doing. “I would use the word fierce — not in a fashion-forward sense, but in a dog-eat-dog type of way,” said Rachel Benedick, vice president of sales and services for Visit Denver, whose team of 30 handles thousands of leads every year for both the cit

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How Good Ideas Spread

PCMA Convene

Vivid Sydney display, the inspiration for Light City Baltimore. On my train ride down to Washington, D.C., to attend PCMA’s Visionary Awards dinner last week, I took a look at Amtrak’s Arrive magazine — and read two articles that add interesting dimensions to two of our own recent online stories. . Chris Durso wrote about experiencing Light City Baltimore earlier this month, a seven-day arts, music, and ideas festival launched by Baltimore’s city arts council.

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A Look at South Africa’s Up-and-Coming Meetings Market

PCMA Convene

I had no idea when my plane landed at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg that I was arriving in the “cool capital of the Southern Hemisphere.” But after spending three days in the city for Meetings Africa 2016, I learned why the nickname, bestowed on South Africa’s capital city last December by the British edition of GQ magazine, is so apt.

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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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5 Innovations From the Annual Convention & World Languages Expo

PCMA Convene

W hen she was hired as director of conventions and marketing for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 10 years ago, Julia Richardson saw that ACTFL’s Annual Convention & World Languages Expo had a traditional program. Like many conventions with a half-century history, there was a standard exhibit floor and lots of breakout sessions.

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Why This Meeting Professional Loves Slack

PCMA Convene

Michael Doane, marketing manager for CadmiumCD: Lately, I’m loving Slack. Slack is a communication app for teams. Anyone can create a channel and invite team members to different groups within that channel. It’s essentially social media for productivity, although as its name suggests, it’s a great tool for goofing off with colleagues, too. The first Slack channel I joined was created by a fellow event-tech aficionado named Carson Plesier.

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Inside the Light City Baltimore Festival

PCMA Convene

The Light City Baltimore festival was already in the works this time last year, when the destination was making national headlines for all the wrong reasons. But still, organizers drew a clear line from the April 2015 death of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray in police custody — resulting in protests, civil unrest, and, eventually, the indictment of six Baltimore police officers — to the first-ever program, held this past March 28–April 3.

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How Do You Manage in the ‘Free Agent’ Era?

PCMA Convene

W e’ve come a long way from the days of the company man. No longer do people stay with one employer for their entire career, or even for an entire decade. Nor are companies themselves looking for them to. “In the at-will era, employees have been encouraged to think of themselves as ‘free agents,’ seeking out the best opportunities for growth and changing jobs whenever better offers beckoned,” Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh write in The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age.

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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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Designing the Decision to Attend Study

PCMA Convene

Phase I of the Decision to Attend Study — a joint project of PCMA, IAEE, ASAE, MPI, DMAI , and The EXPERIENCE Institute — surveyed thousands of members of 10 different associations to determine the general preferences and predilections of meeting attendees. Phase II involves the creation of a “behavioral profile template” — a comprehensive matrix designed to track how a particular meeting’s attendees feel about nine “destination differentiators,” including cost, accessibility, ease of getting ar

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Reading Emotions Online

PCMA Convene

Funny movie. What if you could determine instantly when your webinar speakers are boring the online audience and nudge them to liven things up? What if you were alerted that a virtual education event was causing confusion instead of creating an aha moment, and make sure ideas were clarified? Those techniques are on the horizon, as new emotion-analyzing software is being applied to everything from advertising to gaming.

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A Conference Center With an Open-Lounge Policy

PCMA Convene

Jarrod Eckstein, managing director at the Creative Counsel marketing agency in Johannesburg, South Africa, was blunt when he spoke to meeting professionals at Meetings Africa 2016 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg in February. When it comes to marketing meeting space, “it is the coldest industry I’ve found,” he said. “People don’t like to be treated like machines.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

Illustration by Daniel Chang. Last September, when more than 9,000 beekeepers, researchers, and honey traders descended on Daejeon, South Korea, for Apimondia 2015, the 44th International Apicultural Congress, two groups of outsiders — a few dozen people in all — were among them. And they had all taken a crash course in beekeeping before they arrived.

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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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Leaving More Than Money Behind

PCMA Convene

As part of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress 2015, held in Singapore last May, the Singapore Physiotherapy Association and the national Ministry of Health formalized the creation of a four-year bachelor’s-degree program in physiotherapy at the Singapore Institute of Technology. When Melbourne hosted the International AIDS Conference in 2014, Australia’s health ministers pledged to eliminate new HIV infections by 2020.

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Winning the Battle Against PowerPoint

PCMA Convene

Many conference organizers are actively seeking and experimenting with new session formats and innovative room sets — worthwhile quests to improve conference learning and participant value. If this describes your organization, strike while the iron is hot and stop mandating that all conference presentations use your PowerPoint template. Those templates not only limit each presenter’s creativity, they detract from the attendee learning experience. .

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The Political Circus Is Coming to Town(s)

PCMA Convene

Election Day 2014 – Democrats and Republicans in the campaign. You may think the political circus is in full swing already, but the real big top is coming to two cities this summer: Cleveland and Philadelphia will welcome the Republican National Convention (RNC) at Quicken Loans Arena on July 18–21, while Philadelphia will host the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the Wells Fargo Center on July 25–28.