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Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings

Conferences that Work

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. If you had told me then that the.

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Raccoon Media Group expands Outdoor Expo portfolio into Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Prestige Events Magazine

The new expo for those who love activities outdoors will add to the two existing consumer expos, The Boston Run Show and Snowbound Expo for winter sports, bolstering the company’s standing in the Boston sport’s event market with the goal of getting more people outside & active. The Sports Hub.

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Mountain Festivals Beckon Groups

Smart Meetings

If you crave fitness more than food, trek on over to Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows in Olympic Valley, California, on July 18–21 for live music, outdoor yoga classes (think Acroyoga) and guided adventures at Wanderlust Festival , an event for the inner explorer to unplug and recharge. Vermont Renaissance Faire.

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Growing Appetite for Local Ingredients on Event Menus

PCMA Convene

Event venues are reporting a renewed interest in where a venue’s food comes from — and the closer it is to the kitchen, the better. For further information on the environmental and social reasons for buying locally sourced food, read “ Ten Reasons to Buy Local Food ” from the University of Vermont. I want to meet the farmer.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Four Tips for Hosting Cold-weather Outdoor Activations and Events this Winter

Event Marketer

Fall is in full swing, but as an event marketer, you’re already on to the next season. More on Cold-weather Outdoor Activations: Monthly Pulse Survey Results: The State of Outdoor Events Five Steal-worthy Ideas for Cold Weather Outdoor Activations Theme the activation to the setting.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event. Evaluate event production company abilities for a game-changing event I’m planning? Respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont?