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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

LinkedIn’s growth spurt is evident in the business events industry as well: When we asked meeting organizers what new social media channels they were using to promote events in Convene ’s 2023 Meetings Market Survey , the leading response — chosen by three out of five respondents — was LinkedIn.

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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

You had an event management agency during the 2008 crisis and lost 50% of your business in one week. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009.

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

“Intel’s annual meeting was entirely virtual. ” — Steven Davidoff Solomon , New York Times, Online Shareholders’ Meetings Lower Costs, but Also Interaction. Forty years later, “group telemedia”, now known as virtual meetings, are firmly established and increasingly popular.

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How We Pivoted to Produce Virtual Events

Meeting Tomorrow

Would their speakers be able to present remotely? Clients were turning to us because we’d been producing virtual events since 2008, and also brought a deep understanding of live events. Or, meetings where many small groups get together locally, and then we link several groups together with two-way audio and video.

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Business Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NFL History

Best Corporate Events

People want to work for those companies, and they will often put forth extraordinary efforts to meet goals, because they believe in the mission. When they all came to the Celtics in 2008 and won the championship, every one of them had lower average points per game. But they played on different teams.

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Solimar’s Sustainable Tourism Internship – Where are Former Interns Now?

Solimar International

Let’s meet them: Tesia Smith – Tourism Research Intern, current Japan and Thailand Specialist at Audley Travel. Tesia interned at Solimar International in the summer of 2007 in the DC office and in 2008 in Costa Rica. office to completely remotely across five continents. Tesia in Japan.

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But the Event Industry Bloodbath is Coming

PlannerWire

I am also lucky to be working with my peeps at i3 Events , with “ Remote, Reliable, Responsible ” a meeting planning consortium, with Tess on The EventTech Pull Up , and also with the team at Dahlia+ …. Meeting departments at companies are getting crushed and it goes on and on and on and on. This is not 2008.

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