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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

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. My partners, who are newer to the industry, have a platform to ask questions in areas I may have more background and experience.

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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

Long considered the duller, nerdier counterpart to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the 20-year-old business-oriented social-media channel was ranked as one of the top 10 fastest-growing brands in the world in 2022. The platform, which has reported that it adds a new user every three seconds, now has 950 million users in 200 countries.

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Meetings and Your Brain: Drawing a Joy Connection

Convene by PCMA

using the Piccles platform. 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 drawings are great,” Piccles founder Chris Bent has said, “but the stories are gold.”.

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Bedload Experts Meet in Interlaken for an International Symposium

The MICE Blog

Wasser-Agenda 21 provides a platform for the stakeholders to meet and exchange about current and future water management challenges, aiming to provide solutions. These two platforms offer opportunities for experts to network and exchange on experiences from practice. A total of 174 people took part in the event, including 54 online.

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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. Through platforms such as Passkey, we are able to provide guests options to upgrade or purchase additional amenities during their stay. Orlando has retained its #1 spot this year, after being named the “Top Destination” in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

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