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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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Drawing People Together

Convene by PCMA

Research shows that incorporating art into your events can promote strong connections. By analyzing thousands of brain images, researchers have found that the same parts of our brain that light up when we are learning and using social skills come online when we engage with art. Drawing how you feel is easier than talking about it.

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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. ” Cvent Top Meeting Destinations | North America As pandemic restrictions eased and travel returned, convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) worked diligently to promote their cities and revive the industry as quickly as possible, and those efforts are paying off.

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

Motivation Excellence

According to one study, people who acted as mentors were six times more likely to be promoted and 20% more likely to get a raise. 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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Unconventional Ways Museums Can Use UGC to Promote their Exhibits

Crowdriff

Here are 5 unconventional ways to use UGC to promote your exhibits (that you probably haven’t thought of!): A post shared by C Wilson (@cathsquid) on Apr 15, 2016 at 9:13am PDT. 2 | Use UGC photos as an anchor for promotional text. Do you have an exhibit going on that you’d like to promote?

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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. We are passionate about events and meetings.