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DMA West: Going Viral, What’s Trending and Crisis Communication

Smart Meetings

Here are takeaways every meeting professional can benefit from. Top Trends Impacting Hospitality, Tourism and Events. 60 percent of travelers post on social media daily. Social media, they agreed, is best used to advise and update online visitors immediately after a crisis. Shawna Suckow. Tod Maffin.

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Building the Best Planner Resume

SmartMeetings

For instance, a corporate planner working for a major tech brand and one working for a tourism board will have entirely different backgrounds. Marketing and public relations are an inseparable part of meeting and event planning. Marketing and public relations are an inseparable part of meeting and event planning.

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Bizzabo’s List of ‘Top Event Profs to Follow’ IDs Who’s Who in Industry

SmartMeetings

With an astounding 85,300 Twitter followers, Issa shares tourism, events/meetings industry, and American Express Meetings & Events updates. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news.

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Apple’s Tim Cook Thinks Augmented Reality is the Next Big Thing

SmartMeetings

Event schedules, vendor information and social media posts. And though augmented reality is rapidly becoming a more accessible technology, virtual meetings are also advancing. And though augmented reality is rapidly becoming a more accessible technology, virtual meetings are also advancing.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Voted Top 100 Movers and Shakers in Events by Eventbrite 2016, Voted number 1 on Double Dutch 250 people in Events and top 10% of social media in events in the world and one of the Small Business Top 100 companies 2016 and the only person in history to be nominated twice in one year as the most influential person in events by Haymarket Media.

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Venue Marketing 101: How Improving Discoverability Generates More Event Leads

Social Tables

Adding your venue’s social media icons and online booking link is also mighty handy, as well as perhaps a photo for those that met you recently. The same goes for sample social media posts and including links to review sites where you’re trying to get more exposure. ” 16. Stake your Claim.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

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. The Meeting and Business Event Competency Standards (MBECS). A: Strategic planning. Contribute to publicity plan. Develop media relations. Administration.