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Lessons learned from online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conferences that Work

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online meetings improve access and attendance. The three other meetings did not share historical attendance data.).

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How to Unlock the Power of Listening at Your Events

PCMA Convene

ILA also conducted three online sessions prior to the conference for both digital and in-person registrants to meet. “We Listening is a skill that we need to learn now,” Raquel Ark, a communications facilitator and ILA’s president, told Convene , but, she added, there is only a “small minority” doing it. They’re learning from each other.”

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Study Up On Our Top Picks For Academic Camps In North America

Unique Venues

Loyola also has 8 LEED certified buildings, green housing options, a sustainable catering menu and a green café for hosting. Loyola offers year-round meeting spaces, housing accommodations and gourmet catering for up to 700 guests. University of Minnesota. Sherbrooke, QC. University of Nebraska. Lincoln, NE. Wooster, OH.

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3 Things to Consider When Choosing a Destination

Cvent: Event Marketing

When choosing a location for your meeting, what do you look for? Meeting room capacity? Whatif the experience that attendees have outside of the meeting is just as important as the meeting itself? Attendees will leave with an impression, and the meeting isn’t the only factor. Convention center layout? Development.

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How to Make Hybrid Events More Sustainable

Meeting Tomorrow

As many planners found over the last two years, there are dozens of hybrid events benefits, including sustainability. Even the study mentioned above lists caveats — it finds hybrid events can be more sustainable, but there are lots of factors at play including building energy use, travel, and food.

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Report Shows Convention Centers More Eco-Conscious than Ever

SmartMeetings

This year, 44 venues from the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, China and India participated in the 142-question Green Venue Report survey, providing the most comprehensive collection of results yet on topics ranging from food waste to energy efficiency and sustainability.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

“Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019.