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Smart Moves in Kansas City, Miami Beach and More

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The Chanler at Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island welcomed Twiss as director of sales. Twiss, a 40-year sales management veteran, was previously director of community relations at Benchmark Senior Living in Rhode Island. Cheryl Twiss. She joins the team from Enterprise Holdings Inc.

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Have Event Profs Learned From the Las Vegas Tragedy?

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There’s obviously the shock and craziness of it,” says Trask, CMP, CMM, president of Strategic Meeting Tech in Orange, California. Remembering the Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people in 2003, Trask had a sense of deja vu. “It That makes the event manager the immediate responder,” says Hansen.

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Up Your Virtual Value Prop

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Deliver the goods and you can charge for online events. At the time, I was still working full time for a meeting and event production company and, frankly, needed to vent a bit about how I felt we were being treated by a couple of our clients. More : Tackling the Elephant in the Zoom Room: Paid vs. Free Virtual Events.

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Virtually Engaged with Robin Farmanfarmaian

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Editor’s Note : Following is an excerpt from Robin Farmanfarmanian’s new book, Facilitating Virtual Events: Driving Participant Engagement & Interaction. In the spring of 2020, as, one by one, so many in-person events transitioned to virtual , it became clear that a few things separated the great virtual events from boring virtual events.

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