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Is Your Meeting Storm Ready?

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By Wednesday afternoon, more than 189,000 across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were without power. Read More : How Meeting Planners Can Pre-plan for Event Crisis Management The storm is expected to make its way north into Canada with wind gusts of up to 95 mph. The post Is Your Meeting Storm Ready?

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

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Why have a keynote speaker at your event? This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Often event planners find it difficult to find an easy reference list of keynote speakers or guest speakers for various industry segments. Keynote speakers in Marketing and Sales. Seth Godin Who is he?

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Often event planners find it difficult to find an easy reference list of keynote speakers or guest speakers for various industry segments. Keynote speakers in Marketing and Sales. Seth Godin Who is he?

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Teri Jakob, CMP

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At that point, she pursued the Certified Meeting Manager (CMM) accreditation after talking to people in her Middle Pennsylvania MPI chapter. In addition to being a meeting planner, Jakob is also a nurse. This year, she will be a speaker and presenter there. I did not want to let myself or my boss down if I didn’t pass.

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2 Ideas Worth Stealing from Day 1 of PCMA Convening Leaders

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PCMA has become known for lining up top speakers—this year, Convening Leaders added author Seth Godin and actor Geena Davis to the mix—and sessions that speak to the problems that keep planners up at night—“turning sponsors into partners” and “managing risk in a complex world” come to mind. Play to Your Strengths. Now that was memorable.

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Want Audiences to Interact? Unleash a Pit Bull

PCMA Convene

When FRESH18 — which bills itself as the first annual conference focused exclusively on meeting design — gets underway Feb. The new event format involves taking the responsibility of audience engagement and interaction away from the speaker. FRESH organizers are calling their new interactive speaker session format the “Pitbull Session.”

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How to Honor Native American Tribes on the Fourth

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Many of the casinos and resorts operated by local tribes offer meeting and event venues, giving event planners the opportunity to contribute to the financial support of Native Americans. We’ll look at how some communities celebrate the beginning of July and what they have to offer meeting planners. of meeting space. Washington.