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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. ELINA: My career was an evolution of event management positions in various sides of event industry: I worked for a venue, an event agency, a PCO, associations and corporate organizations. I was born in Russia. Social media use is perhaps another topic that’s worth additional attention.

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Guest Blog: The 7 MICE hotspots of tomorrow revealed

Event Industry News

Social media, digitisation, personalisation, augmented reality and virtual reality are all playing a role in placing the GCC at the cutting edge of technology – home to the next gen of events. Set to open in summer 2019, the new ‘O2 universum’ is the perfect example.

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Face-to-Face Meetings: An Antidote for Loneliness

PCMA Convene

The “other pieces are social media and the news media in general,” said Gielan, the author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Chang e. “We We see all these examples of how people’s lives are so perfect and amazing, as people put out their best face on social media.

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