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Venue Ventilation: Reasons for Planners to Pay Attention

MeetingsNet

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. What he learned could help other planners as they make sure they are fulfilling their duty-of-care obligations.

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How to Build Better Attendee Evaluations to Determine Event ROI

SmartMeetings

Yes, most every meeting has after-the-fact attendee evaluations. Instead, content-involved planners must develop both on-site evaluations and post-event evaluations that determine how much the meeting furthered the specific goals and objectives of the executive stakeholders who own the meeting.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. When meeting planner textbooks gloss over the key ways that meetings can be made much more effective and useful for all stakeholders, planners remain ignorant, and traditional broadcast-style meetings continue to be the norm.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE

According to Felix, the term ‘participant experience design’ is a work in progress. It was established based on the theory of meeting design, a well-known ‘tool kit’ used by planners worldwide. These elements — curiosity, openness, flow and willingness to learn – can be planned with the methods of ‘meeting design.’

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Forever Remote: Event Central

SmartMeetings

We will have an intentional mix of physical and virtual presences with in-person gatherings driven by purpose and designed for collaboration.”. When it matters enough to gather, the meeting design could be much different that in the BC (before-Covid) times. Or at least put in the time to have a realistic budget.

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The Top 10 Books Every Event Manager Should Read

Capterra Event Management

Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design. Have you ever been stuck in a dull meeting that would never end? There are few instances where the word “meeting” is associated with adjectives like “fun” or “intriguing.” From transport to water safety issues, this covers it all!”. Rating: 5/5.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

Transportation plans help planners identify how they’ll manage the movement of participants from the airport to hotel to meetings and offsite venues and if additional requirements, such as visas, might be required for attendee travel. Coordinate accommodation and transportation. Coordinate accommodation and transportation.