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Lessons learned from online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conferences that Work

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online meetings improve access and attendance. Online events make it easier for them to attend. Check it out for full details!

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More Women Participated in Virtual Than In-Person Events

Convene by PCMA

As conferences — in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and economics fields —moved online during the pandemic, one silver lining was that far more women participated virtually than in person. and compared them with registration numbers from those same three conferences after they moved online in 2020.

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3 Companies Score Big at IBTM World’s Tech Watch Awards

Smart Meetings

Tech companies Zenus, Fielddrive and Kubify each recently won a 2018 IBTM World Tech Watch Award , the longest-running industry prize of its kind. The joint-effort won them first place out of a list of nine finalists, earned by receiving the largest number of online votes from members of the MICE industry.

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Budget Increases Are on the Rise in 2019

Smart Meetings

Fifty-six percent of respondents in Eventbrite’s annual Pulse Report said that recruiting attendees for events was one of the top three most challenging part of the planner job in 2018. Rounding out the top three challenges: working with a tighter budget and locking down sponsors. Technology Reigns Supreme. percent in 2019.

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Let’s Talk Finances: Event Sales Tax, Event Budgeting and More

Endless Events

Do you accept registrations online? This ruling affects events, as the mere act of selling tickets online would make one an “online retailer”. eBay Open 2018 Has Some Great B2B Strategies. eBay is not just a pioneer in the field of online selling, it also helped blaze the trail for a new breed of seller events.

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Go Green: How To Jump on Sustainable Event Trend

Endless Events

Sustainable events are one of our top choices for 2018 Event Trends.The sustainable event trend is continuing to grow with no signs of stopping so it’s time to get on board! You know that sign-up, registration and scheduling are areas you want to target to become sustainable, but how? Say you are planning an annual conference.

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500 Million Starwood Guests May be Victim of Data Breach

Smart Meetings

The cybersecurity theft affected reservations made up to September 10, 2018. Marriott is also phasing out Starwood guest registration systems. Personal information from as many as 500 million Starwood guests dating back to 2014 may have been stolen, Marriott International announced Friday.