Master the Event

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s a question that I often ask of meeting planners. Whether or not they use meeting planning software. While I have to admit most meeting planners do use some type software to assist them with their meeting planning, you would be surprised at how many meeting planners aren’t using any specific software at all.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

Maintaining the security and protection of your organization’s information is a requirement for producing a successful event. Your attendees trust you and are counting on you to treat their information with the utmost care. Ever-evolving malware and ransomware pose growing threats to that sensitive information.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 12, 2020

COVID-19 is impacting the event and meeting planning industry. The virus has meeting and event planners very nervous. Some say the effect may surpass the damages to the hospitality and meeting industry resulting from the September 11 attacks.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 12, 2020

COVID-19 is impacting the event and meeting planning industry. The virus has meeting and event planners very nervous. Some say the effect may surpass the damages to the hospitality and meeting industry resulting from the September 11 attacks.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The moniker doesn’t matter and whether you call it event planning, conference planning, meeting planning or meeting management, the facts are the facts. Significant business decisions, undertakings and solutions will transpire during meeting and event planning conferences that occur outside of work.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 31, 2023

A far greater reliance on technology has come to the meeting-planning task, producing a new role that many planners don’t realize has an actual name: event technologist. And even among other planners, “don’t be afraid to chime into existing conversations when you have information to back you up.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 12, 2023

To achieve their goals around experience creation on property, planners cite the desire to use more indoor space than before as well as manicured outdoor spaces for both formal and informal learning and interaction.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will automatically plan their agenda and get them booked on a flight and with a hotel that will meet their specific needs. Intuitive devices could also help capture and extend the usefulness of content streams when humans feel overwhelmed by the deluge of information coming at them day after day.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 29, 2024

Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers A Sneak Peek “…all medical meetings, from the largest congress to the smallest advisory board, are designed to share information. It can be one-way (speaker(s) to attendee messaging) or two-way (speaker(s) to attendee exchange).

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mason continues, “We are not experts in that space, so we are partnering with other organizations in order to provide our meeting planning members with tools and resources to be to be able to address that emerging opportunity.” Sometimes having real-time information to make decisions is very important as well.”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Like many others in my profession, I stumbled into meeting planning,” she says. She has now been in the meeting planning industry for over two decades. I like to participate as an end user and experience that side to help inform what I need to do as an organizer of events,” she says.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo courtesy of Chris Campbell on flickr Once you have decided what type and which convention planning services company you will be working with, the next step will be to outline exactly what your expectations are. Be sure you inform them of all the details for the actual transportation. If you don’t tell them, they won’t know.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For dates and locations click here for the Convention Industry Council’s examination information. To be considered a candidate for the CMP program candidates must be employed as a meeting or event planner with three or more years of active experience in order to write the examination.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 10, 2023

To regularly provide answers and advice to an assortment of event planning challenges and questions. Well we will consistently do our best to provide informative answers, guidance and tips. To everything from A to Z in the event and meeting planning world. Those first meetings can sometimes be the most agonizing.

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EventMB

JUNE 22, 2022

During over 30,000 direct calls with planners, the same request kept surfacing: “Can we just get the information upfront?”. Meeting professionals are tired of sending out RFPs just to find out that a hotel’s rates are out of budget, or their event’s dates are already booked. An End to Tedious Email Requests.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

Instant Group Booking at Scale Choice joins hoteliers Marriott , Hilton and IHG on the platform that allows meeting planners to direct book without the need to submit an RFP. This puts the hospitality technology platform one step closer to being the Expedia of meeting planning. Read More: Is the RFP Dead?

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Eventinterface

MARCH 12, 2017

Eventinterface in partnership with eventTALK is hosting an Event and Meeting Planning Master Class Workshop, a ten-part series of virtual workshops that address key tasks in the design and execution of events and meetings. More information and registration.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

It really is worth checking this page out as they have very helpful information. Hosting a Green Meeting or Conference Can Have an Immediate Effect Now back to meeting and convention industry’s green efforts. Their website provides easy-to-follow information on how to register as well as the agenda on who will be speaking etc.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With over 25 years of experience in meeting planning as well as public safety, Alan Kleinfeld from Arrive Management Group is the perfect person to talk to about the vast world of event safety. A Marriage Of Meeting Planning & Law Enforcement. Let’s meet today’s guest!

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Smooth Synergy for Amazing Events Given that each component needs to rely on the other and share information without overlapping, what’s the most effective way to work together? It goes beyond sharing information with each other to trusting that your team members have strategic intent.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ask the Expert – Service Companies How do you stay current and informed within the event industry? Enjoy those entertaining and informative podcasts. And since we all come from different sectors of the meeting planning world. Meeting new people. Always ask for references and be sure to check them.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2022

An important, often overlooked, aspect of meeting planning is accommodating those who have accessibility needs that are not detectable at first glance. Recently, the city of Visalia, California, announced it is a certified autism-friendly destination, a welcome addition that will help planners meet those hidden needs.

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A lot of traditional DMC’s migrated their services and began offering online searches to help these meeting and event planners. Event Planning Online Has Changed the Way the Industry Sources Suppliers When I first started in the meeting planning business I was with a full-service destination management company.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Most events also try and capture lead retrieval data and meetings planning data, as well as tracking participant activity on social media. Events using Konduko will also have a large sample of attendee behavioural data from the show floor, based on which attendees have collected information from Readers using their badge.

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The Planner's Lounge

MAY 14, 2024

For example, you might decide that your workday ends at 7 PM and inform your clients that you are unavailable after that time. Effective Client Meetings: Plan meetings efficiently to cover all necessary points in a set timeframe, avoiding overruns that eat into personal time.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

That’s why we’ve created a list of examples of the top pharmaceutical meeting planning companies we have experience with. Disclaimer: The objective of this list is to share useful information. We will review your information the next time we update it. We will review your information the next time we update it.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

Run social media campaigns to promote meetings and compile hashtags for attendees to use. Continue to train staff on hybrid meeting planning. And speaking of social media, don’t overlook this now-old friend. Ensure cybersecurity.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A sampling of how the leading independent planning companies execute every sort of event, from user conferences to exotic incentives. The 2020 CMI 25 list is out, with profiles of the 25 largest independent meeting planning companies serving the corporate market in North America. Gating level. anonymous user. DataTable subpages.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Today there always seems to be someone stating that they have they latest and greatest conference planning guide to help you do your meeting planning job. A CVB conference planning guide is generally neutral on where to stay, eat etc. All of the major hotel brands offer meeting assistance. Are they free?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

He’s been speaking with four potential sites about hosting the two-day event, including the Dana Farber Center, another health-care facility, a hospital, and a small meeting venue. Each of those venues, he said, has told him they are “fine” with the meeting’s stipulations. live , for The Voice of Healthcare.

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Eventinterface

MAY 24, 2016

Our curated and complimentary directory of services, venues and vendors supporting the event and meeting planning industry is now open for business. Eventinterface MARKET launched, featuring a diverse list of resources for Meeting and Event Planners. More information at Eventinterface.com. Eventinterface MARKET is live.

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Master the Event

APRIL 5, 2022

She has been working for a local meeting planning company and as she said “so far so good”. Speaking with her really took me back to the early days when I was just starting out, so many skills and so much information and knowledge to understand and come to know.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We all know when you find a speaker that is the right fit for your event or meeting makes for some really good news. That just right speaker can help to set the mood and tone for any event or meeting. Hiring a speaker is an important step when event and meeting planning. Each with their own areas of expertise.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Its back-learning quality is achieved by immersing attendees in the information and the message, effecting an environment built for experiential learning. VR in meetings and events urges us to reflect comparatively, to consider the space, concept or presented information through a comparative and critical lens.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tarin Horan, CMP, knew that meeting planning was the industry for her when she began interning with sports teams. In this role, she planned their season ticket holder events. As future CMPs study for the exam, Horan says, “Don’t get overwhelmed with the amount of information.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

To understand how data analytics can transform meeting planning, forget about meetings and consider how UPS saved $320 million. Reddi is interested in UPS not simply because he’s a data geek, or because UPS is a member of INFORMS, or even because UPS won INFORMS’s most prestigious prize in 2016.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2022

Yet, many association leaders fail in engaging stakeholders effectively due to reluctance to incorporate and act on feedback in their meeting planning. Our inclination to avoid information that opposes our beliefs due to confirmation bias is very dangerous for our modern-day organizations. Mental Blind Spots Thwart Progress.

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