Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Thanks, Steve, for giving us a tiny peek into what makes you, you! What do you like about your job? What’s something you want to share about the people you work with at Motivation Excellence? What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry? I’m a developer. It will be eight years in April.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 8, 2022

They update us on how chatbot technology has evolved in recent years and how you can use event chatbots to successfully engage a community year-round. Brandt jumpstarts today’s discussion by asking Chuck to talk about how 42Chat and its technology have worked through the pandemic over the last couple of years. .

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In today’s episode, Will Curran and Nick Borrelli talk about what’s in the future for event marketing. If you’re living your mission, and you care about your mission first, then the products and services that you have afterward are how you express the mission. Nick thinks a lot about Web. With Web 3.0

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 5, 2024

Q: What inspires you about the hospitality industry? We’ve had several team members who have transitioned during their time while working with us. It is really important to us that our team members feel seen, valued, appreciated and that they can be their true selves. A: Hospitality is something that I love.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 1, 2022

Kate Patay, Smart Meetings Smart Style Ambassador and the woman behind the eponymous Patay Consulting for the last five years, recently announced that she is taking a role as director of engagement with Terramar US , a DMC Network Company. Talk about the decision to go back to working for a company. It’s a full sentence.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I’m no economist, and I’m not talking about every single one of these companies every day, but I’m curious to see if niche applications will change if there’s a downturn in the economy,” says Will. Will emphasizes Brandt’s point about inclusivity. “I We talked about how they learned English early on in their life. Email us! .

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2024

When I think about workplace culture, I understand it as a verb—an action or a call to action. It’s about actively modeling your values on a daily basis and setting expectations for your team. This realization about culture struck me profoundly several years ago when I led the opening team for a new hotel in Portland , Oregon.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2024

We need to be less tolerant and more vocal about what could be done to improve the experience from door to door. To continue delivering value in the foreseeable future, we have to wake up our policymakers now about the urgency of streamlining red tape. That is the only way we will see change.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Immersive experiences are easy production hacks In an age where we’re competing with nearly-addictive , user-generated social media content and experiences like Oppenheimer in IMAX 70mm, many of us are kept up at night wondering how we’re going to earn the audience’s attendance, and keep their attention, at our next event.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

They review some of the biggest summer 2021 events, Nick and Will talk a little bit about the news surrounding virtual event platforms, and Dustin speaks his mind about labor shortages in the events industry (and nearly starts a revolution!). Nick visited Chicago in the summer about the same time Lollapalooza was in full swing.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2023

That might seem like an oxymoron, something artificial enabling us to be more human… but what is more human than the creation of tools? Tools are what separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom and with them, we’ve advanced to discover our place in the universe.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Since then, countless #EventIcons guests were brought on the podcast to talk about how they turned their in-person events into virtual ones and the importance of their community in these trying times. Today, Sarah welcomes two guests, Amy O’Neil and Katie Kosa , to talk about what they do and how they got there since March 2020.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

By continuing to design meetings with purpose and intentionality, we can discover the many opportunities all around us to elevate wellness in meetings in a new and fresh way. What do you love the most about the industry you work in? What excites you the most about the future? What are you grateful for the most?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That thought lingered until last year, when Gerstmann’s wife, Beth Surmont, FASAE, CMP-Fellow, CAE, was about to attend a conference in a state “that had recently put forward harmful anti-LGBTQ+ policy.” She thought, wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to help people donate money to rebalance their spending?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

When you think about the East Coast, it was a 1 a.m. We are so grateful for the patience and tenacity of this town in allowing us to get that work done.…But Being so far away from Las Vegas and having never been, his understanding of the city was like many others’: it’s all about The Strip. start time, that was rough.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rather than covering a “new topic,” we’re checking in with you, our listeners, and readers and evaluating whether we should change anything about the podcast. “A few episodes ago, we talked about the future of event technology. I’ve been thinking lately about what the future of the Event Tech podcast is.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Learn about every aspect of virtual in our Virtual Events Handbook! We are talking about why platforms alone aren’t the solution for your virtual event (12-min read). We are seeing a rise in people contacting us saying that they tried to produce a virtual event but realized they couldn’t do it alone.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 22, 2022

Will kicks off today’s topic by taking us back to Google’s 2022 IO conference. Seeing how Google Glass used AR for events led Brandt to consider how we can use AR for wayfinding. I’m thinking about being able to use that same navigation technology and apply it to a tradeshow floor,” says Brandt.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I did a talk at MPIs WEC last year about building your career as an event professional. I think an event planner is more logistics and design oriented while event marketers are concerned about the company’s marketing goals.”. Deanna brings us to the next question in today’s discussion. It’s definitely a ‘yes and…’ situation.” .

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Endless Events

MAY 5, 2022

It’s taken us many years, even though many event profs have been preaching about numerous benefits of event technology for ages. Technology has enabled us to communicate with virtually anybody anywhere at any time – both in our personal as well as professional lives. Event Technology Supports Sustainability.

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Endless Events

MAY 14, 2020

Let us paint a vivid picture for you: as a pandemic sweeps the world, the events industry suffers. And as days pass, there is only one certainty all of us can agree on. But if we really think about it, the fact that the world is changing isn’t necessarily a bad thing. And the Brew Crew has a lot to say about it!

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Endless Events

JUNE 30, 2020

It’s up to us as an industry that tends to create so much waste to improve. And Replate is all about “leveraging technology to match surplus food from businesses with communities in need” This means Kate has quite a bit to teach us about battling food waste in the events industry. ood waste.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From finances to DEI and team building, 2023 was a year for support and education All of us at Smart Meetings and all of our contributors want to see each other thrive, which is why we frequently post strategy stories as a resource for all of us to learn from each other.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Don’t Neglect AI In DMA West’ s first general session, “Your Introduction to AI for Tourism & Hospitality,” Brian Matson, senior director of strategy and education of full-service tourism marketing agency TwoSix Digital , began with a story about the discovery of the early internet’s ability to connect people. “I

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2023

To be sure, the gift was forced upon us—the experiment was necessary. The pandemic taught us that humans have an intrinsic need to connect with each other. Sure, digital tools like Zoom allowed us to see faces and put names to them, but this came at a cost. Because of it, we now have the data to make that comparison.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

citizen, she is enthusiastic about the benefits of living and working in an industry that is a melting pot of backgrounds. So, when Smart Meetings asked me—as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month—I was honored to talk about a few of the things that I love. It allows us to see things and be seen. As a newly naturalized U.S.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 12, 2023

PCMA CEO Sherrif Karamat explained the need to focus on the future this way: “Covid happened for us, not to us. Sometimes things that seem so tragic give us inspiration for what is to come. This is not about looking back, it is about blazing a trail forward with and for all of us.”. Author Adam Grant.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite the fever pitch excitement about the advancement of the technology, Dominguez suggests being mindful and using the AI with calculated intention. Dominguez pointed towards Microsoft Co-Pilot as an AI that could potentially save planners a lot of time in their day, “That is where I think AI now starts to make us better.

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Endless Events

JUNE 8, 2020

But are we really so busy that we forget to think about ourselves? For years, Lee has been teaching professionals in the industry about the importance of mindfulness in events. For years, Lee has been teaching professionals in the industry about the importance of mindfulness in events. The Endless team is here to help.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

2020 has been tough on all of us. And while none of us wanted to go through the Holidays without gathering around a turkey with our families, we’ll have to make do. Much like everything else this year has thrown at us, this situation is far from ideal. So we’ve been talking a lot about virtual events here at Endless.

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Endless Events

JUNE 1, 2022

They help us manage our schedules, fulfill our requests, and instantly answer questions we might have about the weather, the news, – and events. An event chatbot is designed to answer questions about events and offer support to attendees. In this 12-minute video, Brandt Krueger goes over the event chatbot basics.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And being on top of what will change and what will remain the same puts us one step ahead in the game. To help us out with this exciting conversation, we welcome two iconic guests, Nicole Osibodu and Mark Granovsky. Comment below and let us know! We would love for you to join us LIVE and bring your questions for our icons.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2024

And I’ve learned that confusion about thinking and feeling is common. As I wrote in 2010: “…when I was growing up my education emphasized thinking…However, the educational agenda allocated no time for understanding or expressing my feelings…All of us in school had feelings, of course, and they greatly affected how and what we did.

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Endless Events

JULY 6, 2021

Will and Brandt will talk about facial recognition at Disney Parks and events in general. ” He talks about his own experience visiting the Disney Parks and what kind of technology he saw there. “I didn’t think at the time it was a little strange, but they had us do thumbprints at the entrance. Why Disney?

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Motivation Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2023

Thanks, Patty for sharing a bit about your life with us this month (and the nautical trivia). What do you like about being a Travel Program Manager? What’s something you want to share about the people you work with at Motivation Excellence? What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry?

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Endless Events

JULY 16, 2021

And how many months out are you even beginning to think about your event? But what about hybrid event planning? Let us elaborate. Events have always been about storytelling in their own particular way. Think About This. Should you source the venue and then the speakers? These considerations are basic for planners.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

And they’re just like, ‘Send it to us via email.’” Brandt found that people were complaining about his process, so he researched alternatives. “I It’s about a hundred bucks a year. Will brings us the next tip, inspired by Endless’ approach to data protection. For us, it’s actually a Wells Fargo account.

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