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CreativeMornings: A Global Community Built on Connection

PCMA Convene

I was always a little bit surprised that it was so successful,” Eisenberg has said, “until I came across this quote by [social-media theorist] Clay Shirky: ‘We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.’ And that completely made sense.”.

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Event Heroes: How ShowPad is Driving Sales Enablement with Events

Bizzabo

Building rapport with social media. I started with events 17 years ago, working for an association that dealt with globalization issues in the software development industry where I was doing global conferences and exhibitions in different parts of the world—China, Middle East, Europe, US, and Russia. I was born in Russia.

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Face-to-Face Meetings: An Antidote for Loneliness

PCMA Convene

The feeling that you’re not alone changes how you process the whole world,” said speaker and researcher Michelle Gielan, a former broadcast journalist who has a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and is a founder and researcher at the Institute of Applied Positive Research.

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