Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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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Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? One of the main reasons for business events or meetings is to deliver some kind of information.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Speakers Travel 111

Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

Peer conferences improve this support by allowing participants to share their top-of-mind problems in real time and leverage peer resources to get solutions. Designing experiments into our conferences allow participants to explore solutions to complex problems. Obvious problems. Provide frequent and timely feedback to my staff?

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

That’s on top of staying abreast of the latest industry trends and current events that can affect the outcome of your next meeting or event. Smart Meetings has rounded up the best event planning resources of this year, in order to help planners face challenges in 2017. 7 Books Every Meeting Planner Should Read.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Access to resources. Large organization clients usually have more access to useful resources than smaller clients. For example, meeting rooms, specialized support staff, and travel budgets are often plentiful and generous. These meetings involve hundreds of countries and thousands of NGOs and people. Which some people do.

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Consulting Contracts Banking Management 156

Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 19, 2022

That’s why there are so many helpful resources and tools out there to ensure that as an event planning expert, we’re providing the best possible solution for our clients, ourselves, and all event stakeholders relying on us to get the job done – and with flawless execution! The above resources are there to help you find your starting point.

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Capterra Event Management

JULY 19, 2016

Here’s an alphabetical list of our go-to resources for event management professionals, including blogs, magazines, and podcasts. It also includes rankings of top meeting hotels and destinations. Event consultants and meeting designers, Gallus Events uses its blog to offer advice and tips on the industry. Smart Meetings.

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Trade Shows Consulting Social Media 2007 40

Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings? An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 22, 2024

and Europe, evolved into an efficient 3D spatial design and management resource for business event professionals. That’s the source of truth, right where the virtual meets the physical,” he added. The post Evolution of Spatial Design Technology Could Simplify Event Planning appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 31, 2017

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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Meetings Food and Beverage Sustainability 2016 64

Gallus Events

MAY 11, 2020

There are lots of free resources out there, but they tend to be designed to lead you to buying something else. meeting design institute: Design interactive online and hybrid meetings, conferences and events. The meeting design institute have been pioneering hybrid events for as long as I have.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2020

Below, in our Epic Resources section, we link the awesome insider favorites that were mentioned in this episode! Check out the epic resources from today’s episode about MCs for events: Cultivating Engagement At Events. Meeting Design Toolbox for Meeting Architects. So, press play right now and join us!

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Gallus Events

MAY 11, 2020

There are lots of free resources out there, but they tend to be designed to lead you to buying something else. Meeting Design Institute: Design interactive online and hybrid meetings, conferences and events. The meeting design institute have been pioneering hybrid events for as long as I have.

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Trade Shows Meeting Design Events Management 130

Conferences that Work

APRIL 16, 2018

(Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) Most meeting conveners concentrate on feedback about meeting content (“great speakers!”)

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

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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Meetings Food and Beverage Risk Management Contracts 62

Guidebook

APRIL 10, 2015

Sure, you can get all your event and meeting planning information from the internet like most of us do these days. (We Nothing is more satisfying than stacking your scholarly resources on a bookshelf so that everyone who enters your house knows how learned you are. This week we’ve been building a resource library for event planners.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 7, 2020

Productivity is highest when business meetings are held at venues that can accommodate technology needs and provide the right resources and environment to get down to business. The open atmosphere inspires innovation and changes the way people meet. There are also overnight accommodations for 150 guests.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

A great selection of guest posts dominates this blog, and they also provide a host of additional resources in the form of guides and webinars. As the name indicates, this is a production blog, podcast and resource for the live events industry. The Meeting Pool. MPI (Meeting Professionals International). The MICE Blog.

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Trade Shows Food and Beverage Tech Education 133

PCMA Convene

MAY 19, 2021

Meeting designer and author Adrian Segar also has sounded an alarm over the lack of attention to venue ventilation and what he called a “misdirected” focus on surface cleaning. And the latter, especially, is lagging. “We We don’t have a single documented case of COVID-19 transmission from surfaces. Adrian Segar. Jessica Cooper.

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Gallus Events

MAY 15, 2017

You could spend a lot of time, money and resource and make very little impact on the person who has to leave at 4pm to catch their train. Meeting design. I know this isn’t the case for other planners, but in terms of benchmarking: If your conference thins out by 25% after the final refreshment break YOU ARE DOING FINE. .

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

what are the resource implications of delivering new events? They used Meeting Design. how can the event planner prove that their events can do so much more for their association? how can associations run more or / and very different types of events? They had a gender balanced speaker programme.

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

what are the resource implications of delivering new events? They used Meeting Design. how can the event planner prove that their events can do so much more for their association? how can associations run more or / and very different types of events? They had a gender balanced speaker programme.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

There was a lot of confusion, and a lot of challenges from a resource and skills point of view. There are many learning resources but defining your goals must come first. Imagine if individual meeting planners could get together and talk about their mistakes and learnings,” said Stephan.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

These 40, follow-worthy social media influencers are highly engaged, limitless resources that are quick to share helpful content to help you succeed and grow your business. Meetings & Events. Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. TahiraCreates.

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Hubilo Blog

JULY 23, 2018

Designing Successful Meetings — Susan Mundry, Edward Britton, Senta Raizen, Susan Loucks-Horsley. This book revolves around tips and tricks, suggestions about planning, designing meetings for participants that result in the sustainable learning experience. Have you ever thought why do you attend so many meetings?

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2018 Sustainability Financial Conference 89

Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

56% of event professionals believe health and wellness programs impact the overall success of meetings. Sure, wellness programs don’t dictate the success of meetings, but they certainly enhance results. of event professionals believe venues need to invest more in event technology for groups and meetings.

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Hotels Food and Beverage Negotiating Venues 149

Event Industry News

JANUARY 30, 2019

In her address to a packed hall at the Park Plaza Victoria London, at the association’s first Members Meeting of the year, new HBAA Chair Angie Mason unveiled this theme as the focus for the year ahead. Paul Hussey of Meetings Benchmark provided a review of the market in 2018 and valuable insight into forward bookings for early 2019.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Posts can range from takeaways from keynotes, photos of the event, or a heads up to your location in order to meet other event attendees. Tagboard is a free resource that tracks a specific hashtag that updates in real-time. Room Design. Room diagramming is the cornerstone of meeting planning. Try Social Tables today.

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2014 Food and Beverage Social Media 2015 60

SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Participants were able to take advantage of 43 sessions, focused on the latest in planning purposeful meetings. Smart Meetings sent a team to do some early reconnaissance, and the top lessons learned included the following. The post Lessons from Smart Monday at IMEX 2017 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Converve

MAY 9, 2017

For some time, more and more event managers have been concerning themselves with the topic of meeting design. There is still however no clear description of what meeting design actually means. It tries to research the influences of technology on event design. (updated 18 July 2018). Hybrid Event. "A

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

With more than a decade of experience as a professional speaker, Dahlia founded The Meeting Pool , a great source of information for event professionals. She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015.

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Trade Shows Social Media Consulting B2B 119

SpotMe Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Strategic meetings management is a concept that’s over 20 years old but has recently taken on a new form. The meetings and events industry has evolved, and planners now have a seat at the omnichannel table, where data-driven insights and attendee experiences are top of mind. The time for strategic meetings management is now.

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Management Meetings Risk Management Technology 130

Slido

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Here are some of our favorite blogs that bring the best from our industry, as well as some amazing companies that have inspired us on our journey toward better meetings. MPI Blog The Meeting Professionals International (MPI) website is THE destination to find out what the industry is talking about. Leadership, culture and meetings 15.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! For some reason I feel that the meetings industry should be driving that. Details of my session at IBTM World. And this leads to pooper content for the attendees. What do you think?

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