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Betsy Bair to Retire from VCC

Velvet Chainsaw

While her contributions at VCC and for our clients are significant, she also advanced the event planning profession. For over 30 years, Betsy was the editor and content director of Medical Meetings, Corporate Meetings & Incentives and several other industry publications that have evolved into today’s digital MeetingsNet.

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10 Steps to Planning a Hybrid Meeting

Connect Your Meetings

Register for “10 Steps to Planning a Hybrid Meeting” Extending your event to the online world can often seem like a daunting task. Despite concerns around technology platforms and on-site participation, hybrid events provide unique opportunities to extend your event reach across multiple geographies and time zones.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Barbara Connell, CMP Fellow

Smart Meetings

Events are everywhere; and event planners play an integral role in any and every industry. Every business is affected by events and the management of those gatherings,” she says. After I received the designation, I realized that this event planning situation could turn into a long-term career.

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Best of 2021: Career Accelerator Webinars

Smart Meetings

There’s a lot of information out there about how to better your career as a meeting professional. Throughout the year, Smart Meetings has invited professionals from different corners of the event planning world to impart their knowledge. Summary: Flying Taxis and Self-directed Luggage: Predicting the Future of Events ).

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge

SmartMeetings

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! In the hospitality/events industry, a weak supply chain means limited product quantities unless you order significantly in advance (and who can predict volume right now?)

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Where Does #EventTech Go from Here?

SmartMeetings

Think back to the humble event app to gain insight into the future of online event platforms. A decade or so ago, despite brave event-planning souls paving the way, very few event apps were on the market—a handful, really. Medical meetings? appeared first on Smart Meetings. Scientific?