Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 17, 2019

I have been struck by the disparity in how an association’s organizational culture translates (or doesn’t translate) to the on-site implementation or planning of its live events. But when it gets to “go time,” does that culture manifest at your conferences and meetings? Open Up that Tent. How to Create an Effective Event Culture.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

If there is a silver lining to the pandemic for the meetings industry, it’s this: The pandemic accelerated the evolutions of meetings. Like the typewriter, print publications and fax machines, the fully in-person meeting would have eventually become extinct. People know how to use them, and they make great meeting programs.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

Breaking into the meeting planning business takes a mishmash of education, experience and passion. It seems almost everyone I meet lately appears to have an interest in meeting planning and a meeting planner career. Immerse yourself in all things meeting planning.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In today’s market, meeting-planning companies are asked to do more for their clients with less. Leading a successful meetings business and running outstanding events are possible with less-than-generous funding but require a focus on the fundamentals of finances—which aren’t entirely about numbers. What is the potential upside?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

And, like more than a few train stations of its kind, it is still finding new ways to delight and welcome modern groups—from casual visitors to meetings-minded professionals. . Hit hard by the decline of passenger trains, the station saw its last rail passenger in 1978. There is a magic to St. Louis ever since.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

It tracks your verbal habits to train you against using filler words such as “like,” “actually” and “you know.” The post 5 New Apps to Make Meeting Planning Tasks Easier appeared first on Connect Association. Use it as your on-site app and keep everyone engaged until your next show. Like, awesome!

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2022

More than 1,300 representatives from convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) across North America and the world (600 of them first-time attendees) started arriving last week to take classes on everything from budgets and economic development to marketing and leadership as part of their Certified Destination Management Executive (CDME) training.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Planners in the United States expect all types of meetings to grow in attendance in 2019, noting an anticipated 1.24 percent increase in internal meetings. percent) is expected for conferences, trade shows, senior leadership meetings and board meetings. The smallest growth (more than 0.7 Experience.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Meeting professionals rely heavily on the event servicing teams behind the scenes to execute on the best-laid plans for effective meetings. Read More : Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs. What ESPC Proves.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 7, 2022

It’s all included and bestowed with heartfelt service that has helped make Zilara and Ziva the new favorite brands for meeting and incentive planners around the world. Planners appreciate the ease and convenience of the professionally trained, dedicated events team and flat-rate billing makes budgeting a breeze. Plan with Confidence.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We sat down with the Maritz team to ask what top event technology trends they see for 2024 and how they will fundamentally change the meeting professional’s job. It will automatically plan their agenda and get them booked on a flight and with a hotel that will meet their specific needs. It will also be interactive.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 3, 2023

For the hiring wave of 2023, it’s taking longer to find the right meeting planning candidate—it’s not always a clear fit in today’s workplace environment. Meeting and convention departments powered through these macro workplace trends. In Penfold’s experience, 90 percent of meeting planning applicants want that flexibility.

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Stova

MARCH 16, 2023

The Strategic Meetings Management Guide Successful strategic meetings management requires a wide array of skills and tools to help you meet stakeholders' expectations and reach your goals. Within this guide, you will receive the tools and knowledge to become a meeting strategist for your organization.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

NDK adds 50 employees to the ITA team, as well as an associate network of NKD-trained consultants across five continents. Among NDK’s service areas are strategic consulting, leadership development, employee engagement and onboarding, performance management, culture change, and skills training.

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Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 7, 2020

Whether you and your team’s goals are to find new ways to pivot this year’s meetings and events to virtual approaches or start the wheels turning for pandemic meeting and event design , here’s why embracing professional education now has a significant pay-off. Invest for the Future. “An Build Camaraderie. Use 2020 Budgets.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 19, 2019

A healthy number of meetings-industry companies made the list, and the rise of unique experience providers shows what your attendees are excited about. There are a healthy number of meeting and event planning companies on the list, check out the slideshow for a sampling of privately held companies with impressive growth rates.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Services – You’ll want a company with an experienced team who can handle a range of tasks such as marketing, creative design, and digital media planning. The right MedComms agency team should be able to leverage their expertise in medical communications to ensure that your event is successful and meets all of its goals.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

How meeting profs can keep event data safe with the latest cybersecurity tools You don’t want to be the next data leak to hit the headlines. Multifactor authentication and redundant trained staffing can go a long way to keeping information secure. “If The post In the Cloud We Trust appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 19, 2019

Searching for event technology or meetings technology influencer, the most heard name is of a renowned influencer?—? Corbin started off his career as the Meetings Manager and Head of Conference Operations for SPIE?—?The I ran my first meeting in 1979. What characteristics have remained unchanged in the meetings industry?

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The tactics could be: to train and deploy a staff and volunteer team to greet, wayfind and facilitate at the arrival points. The feeling you want to create is inclusion, anticipation and appreciation. A model for this might be the arrival experience at a Nike store. The challenge is sustaining and developing this concept throughout the event.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 29, 2019

A blueprint for quickly planning internal meetings that salvage employee trust and confidence. Actually, crisis management requires a series of meetings that must hit their objectives,” she says. So that meeting has to happen quickly, and employees must be assured that they will get the full story.”.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 18, 2017

Although reservations are already booked for the big day in August, many of these sites are also great places to hold meetings another time. Custom eclipse glasses with a brand, company or event name printed on them would be a great promotional item to give out at meetings leading up to August 21. of meeting space and 125 guest rooms.

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Capterra Event Management

JUNE 6, 2017

While I think there are plenty of meetings that anyone could sum up in an email, it’s important to meet with your coworkers or other persons of interest when subjects require a more personal touch. Affordable and free meeting software. Scheduling and planning software. Note-taking software. Google Calendar.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As meeting planners, we want to know more about the interesting locations we’re seeing. Lawrence Convention features 53 meetings rooms for a total of 77,952 sq. of meeting room space across 70 rooms. of meeting space and an 11,325-square-foot ballroom and exhibition hall. La La Land photo by Lionsgate. 20th Century Fox.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 21, 2017

Meeting professionals are tasked with making sure the audio of presentations is clear , that there’s no feedback and that it is at a comfortable volume—but what about the attendees who live in silence? The fancy fingers of these highly trained professionals share the stage with the biggest stars and often steal the show from the main act.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Armed with this kind of intel, meeting organizers can now go back to their bosses and tell them not only if the app was a success, but also if their event was a success and how it contributed back to the bottom line. There are three steps you’ll need to take: Determine the meeting or event type. Join the movement for a better event.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 11, 2023

With that appetite for travel comes the opportunity to meet employee needs with today’s top meeting and incentive destinations. The Desire for Meaningful Meetings Comes from the Top Executives are aware of the world’s pain: war, famine, floods, the impact of climate, global protests and difficult trends and happenings.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hybrid events—whether they are conferences, expos or training courses—are meetings that can be accessed in person at a physical location, or remotely via an online platform. These features can encompass e-books, white papers, video tutorials, training simulations or study guides. Present unique and thought-provoking content.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

When reports of sexual harassment start coming from industries as varied as Hollywood, politics and, most recently TED Talks , that is a sure sign that putting measures in place to protect against unlawful discrimination is now a requirement for every endeavor, including meetings and events. Policy Guidelines. MPI Response.

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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”. As a rule, conferences, conventions and meetings are all events that bring individuals together with a like-minded objective. Like us oldies know, when starting out, there is so much to pick up and absorb and the learning curve is crazy.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 26, 2017

If you’re interested in throwing a bash in a patriotic locale, Smart Meetings has hand-picked star spangled venues to consider from “sea to shining sea.”. A meeting room and The Ferry Building are also available for smaller groups to rent. The venue can be configured to meet your needs for anywhere from 10 to 200 to 300 or more guests.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Maritz Travel continues to expand its offerings in the med/pharma meetings arena by launching Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions this week. I’ve trained more than a thousand medical meetings professionals through the HMCC program, and heard first-hand about the challenges these companies face,” Schaumann says.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Meeting growth is expected to continue, especially with regards to small meetings , according to a key report released this week by IACC. The comprehensive study takes a deep dive into trends among small meeting venues and factors that are spurring meeting growth. ” Meeting Growth Trends. percent to $108.23.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Not enough experience : In some cases, the challenge is not a lack of staff, but a lack of trained staff. Not enough time : In the past, you could plan in advance. In some cases, the challenge is not a lack of staff, but a lack of trained staff.”. For the traveler, the labor shortage definitely adds up to headaches.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Add to that staffing shortages, leading to fewer employees wearing multiple hats, taking on tasks they normally wouldn’t, or weren’t trained for. Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape. Plan (Much Farther!)

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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. Pharma meeting planners are experts in social media marketing, email campaigns, media partnerships, and more to maximize HCP attendance and participation. It is not for commercial purposes.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

More universities than ever are including conference hotels on their grounds to accommodate meetings of the mind in academic settings. Check out some of these properties and the opportunities they represent for creating smarter meetings. of meeting space, including J. It offers 1,836 sq. It includes 18,000 sq.

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