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Top 10 U.S. States Ranked on Building Sustainability

EventMB

Skift Take: Much like sea levels around the world, the importance of sustainability continues to rise, with properties seeking to obtain the coveted LEED certification to highlight eco-friendly practices and policies. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Review of Butter, a smooth meeting platform for facilitators

Conferences that Work

Companies bombard me with offers to check out online meeting platforms. Butter is an online meeting platform that is designed to support the facilitation of great interactive meetings. So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. The usual caveats. Butter — the big picture.

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Doing peer conferences right

Conferences that Work

After I talked about my meeting design work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. Code of conduct, inclusive language, Conference Buddy,photo policy. That’s the way to improve meetings!

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Wellness in Meetings: Interest Outpaces Implementation

SmartMeetings

A similar disconnect exists in the meetings industry, according to a new Wellness in Meetings and Incentive Travel Study from the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF). The study measures the prevalence of wellness initiatives in incentive travel and meeting programs.

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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. J: Marketing.

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Driving team building and networking through interactive event technology

Event Industry News

in the early planning stages of an internal meeting, designed to bring together two teams – Digital and Information Technology for the first time – prior to their merger into one ‘Digital Technology’ team. Networking and collaboration were the primary objectives of this all-hands meeting, held in Germany in January 2019.

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Benchmarking Association Events

Gallus Events

– And finally it allowed our team to be more nimble as we were able to react quickly to a new policy development. providing tailored training, meeting design or event consultancy Gallus Events have supported the following commercial event businesses: AramCo, Concerto Group, Reed Exhibitions, Sage Publishers.