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6 Tips for Keeping Attendees Tuned In During Your Online Events

Smart Meetings

While event organizers are getting good at planning in-person, hybrid and online events, booking the right speakers and keeping attendees engaged are still some of the biggest challenges. With online events especially, attendees can get distracted by looking at their phones or trying to multitask during presentations.

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Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence?

Conferences that Work

Are online meetings reducing our collective intelligence [CI] ? New research about online meetings. Translation: in the experimental setup used , the researchers found that online meeting participants were: better able to avoid interrupting each other; and. ” Artificial online meetings. I don’t think so.

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Be a Mentor – It Can Give YOU a Boost Too!

Motivation Excellence

One Up One Down is a professional mentor matching organization for “kick-ass entrepreneurial women” in business and technology. Our VP of Sales, Rhonda Brewer, helped start a two-way mentoring program in 2016 for the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence Women in Leadership committee and their Young Leaders program.

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3 Takeaways From Tourism Academy 2016

Crowdriff

We’ve just returned from beautiful Philadelphia where we spent two action-packed days at the 2016 Tourism Academy conference which we were proud to support as a key sponsor and as a presenter with our client Visit Stockton. A post shared by CrowdRiff (@crowdriff) on Jun 8, 2016 at 7:50am PDT. View this post on Instagram.

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Cvent’s ‘Top Meetings Destinations’ and ‘Top Meeting Hotels’ Returns: Nashville and San Diego Move Up

Smart Meetings

1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. Orlando has retained its #1 spot this year, after being named the “Top Destination” in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. This is the first time Cvent has generated the list since the pandemic halted events. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. after being named No.

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Gender Equity: More Than Good Intentions

Convene by PCMA

The journal’s scientific research publishing company introduced a code of conduct for the approximately 30 events it organizes, which included commitments against holding sessions with manels — all-male panels — and all-male organizing committees.

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Meetings and Your Brain: Drawing a Joy Connection

Convene by PCMA

In 2016, the Montreal-based entrepreneur created Piccles, an interactive online platform where users create and share computer-generated drawings, as an outlet for his own creativity. The session was part of a course on transforming events organized by the Palais de congrès de Montréal.

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