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Risk Management 101 with Jordan Atherton, 1st Global

Connect Your Meetings

While creating a comprehensive risk management plan takes significant time and effort, there are a handful of steps you can immediately implement into your existing events to help get you started. The knowledge and training a law enforcement officer can provide on-site during an event is unmatched. Hire local PD.

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Event Planner Challenges and Opportunities of the Next Decade

Maritz Global Events

These things may work wonders toward a more eco-conscious practice, but, sustainable event management comes with a whole new set of hoops to jump through, and a lot more checklists to check off. With so many things to consider, site selection will challenge more and more and event planners. Event Planner Opportunities.

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5 Online Event Planning Classes To Jumpstart Your Career

Capterra Event Management

So if you, like me, are an event professional looking to develop your event management skills, you might feel overwhelmed with the number of choices for education and training in logistics, management, design, personal relationships, and event management software. Emory University Event Planning Certification.

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16 Event Resources to Plan Your Next Great Event

Capterra Event Management

His posts tend to be short and on bigger, abstract ideas, but give you a lot to think about event strategy and planning. The blog also provides information on venues, popular cities for events, and news relevant to the event planning industry. Stylevise is dedicated to the specifics of event design.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. I: Site management.

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A Higher Meetings Education: Future-Proof Your Career

SmartMeetings

CMP International Standards, for example, are updated every five years to cover the latest in strategic planning, project management, risk management, financial management, human resources, stakeholder management, meeting/event design, site management and marketing. Pop Quiz for MPI Innovator Jessie States. Jessie States.

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How Philadelphia Geared Up to Host the DNC

PCMA Convene

From a site-selection point of view, it’s a no-brainer: Stage a pageant of American democracy in its star-spangled birthplace. When I got off the train at 30th Street Station in Center City Philadelphia, I knew immediately I was in the right place. But that doesn’t mean Philadelphia takes its host duties for granted.

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