Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

Editor’s Note : As part of Back Light, a series of articles sharing illuminating insider observations, we asked Geoffrey Wellen, chief customer care officer of 6Connex f or lessons learned from two years of virtual and hybrid events. Either way, meeting planners need to organize with both online and physical attendees in mind.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 11, 2022

It’s time to stop networking at meetings. No, I’m not saying we should only listen to lectures at meetings. This post was inspired when Victoria Matey shared the following thought about networking at meetings: Random thought. No related posts.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Articles, surveys and webinars, oh my! In 2023, Smart Meetings released a stream of multimedia resources for planners to learn about sustainability in the world of events. Read on for a list of the best of Smart Meetings’ sustainability publications from the past year. We know sustainability is important. But where do you start?

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BCD Meetings & Events

DECEMBER 30, 2021

For the meetings and events industry, 2021 has been a year of cautious optimism and transition as we strive to move forward from the pandemic's impact. Vaccination rates provided hope in parts of the world while the Delta variant thrusted uncertainty among meeting programs.

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Motivation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On a daily basis, we account for all types of uncertainty in the planning of all of our incentive travel programs, meetings and events. Following are key risk mitigation strategies gleaned from Rivers’ Meetings Today article to consider for a successful return to your programs and events.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2022

Want a simple way to improve meeting session learning? Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meeting session learning with this simple tip! Provide a shared Google doc where all participants can take notes, ask questions, and get answers! appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

convention centers used criteria generally understood as key to site selection: exhibition space, meeting rooms, total space, distance from the airport, hotel availability, meal price, arts/entertainment, food availability, and walkability. I found two things curious about the Journal article. 1 overall in its list of the top 30 U.S.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 30, 2024

In-person meetings can be a central part of the solution—and executed in new ways. The prevalence of hybrid work arrangements is making in-person employee meetings an increasingly important tool for productivity as well as employee satisfaction and well-being, and recent research backs this up. And the number of U.S.

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Traveler's Q

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article we will tell you about the changes in event planning spurred by the pandemic, and what you can expect when you attend your next business event. The post MICE Events: Meetings in a Post-Pandemic World appeared first on Traveler's Q.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But what does it mean in the context of meetings? Surely we sometimes become attached to people we meet? Isn’t creating and strengthening attachments one of the desirable functions of meetings? So what is the relationship between connection and attachment when people come together?

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many meetings still focus on creating audiences rather than community. And not just at meetings. Damon Kiesow , @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net, Mastodon toot on Nov 06, 2022, 10:37 Kiesow concisely sums up why the news business and the meeting industry concentrate on audience rather than community.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Though I don’t teach college anymore, I’m interested in educational class design because a class is a meeting. And much of what we can do to design great meetings is applicable to college classes too. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post A class is a meeting appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 15, 2023

It’s time for a “sound of silence” roundup of meetings industry pet peeves.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. One bright spot has been the normalization of online meetings for routine connection and collaboration. It ain’t necessarily so.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The new meetings-industry A.I. That’s the small print on the legal prompts in Spark, the meetings-specific generative-A.I. That’s the small print on the legal prompts in Spark, the meetings-specific generative-A.I. According to one meetings-industry attorney, that’s a warning well worth heeding. to legal work is “a given.”

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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. Sun identified eight strengths that were commonly mentioned.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 28, 2023

After the pandemic and in the remote-work environment, it’s not enough to simply plan a meeting and have people show up. For meeting planners, the cost, time commitment, and effort to host in-person meetings requires a high quality of attendee interaction that might not be as easy to come by as in the past.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 4, 2023

For instance, a recent article from Reuters notes that “JetBlue will redeploy capacity away from New York to maintain high-margin leisure destinations, as its business travel demand is 20 percent below pre-pandemic levels.” percent lower than they were in June 2019.

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Endless Events

APRIL 17, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Ask Yourself: 45 Questions To Ask Before Meeting With A Virtual Event Production Company. Ask yourself these questions before your virtual event meeting! (13-minute Knowing the answers to these questions will help prepare you to have a more successful meeting! ? Articles and resources.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A group spa treatment as a meeting break? In 2023, it became clearer than ever that although wellness fits into meetings in many ways and makes for an outstanding attendee experience, it’s just as important for meeting profs to prioritize their own wellness. He spoke to Smart Meetings in both a What One Thing?

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

According to an article from CNN , the flight is the latest in a series of tests involving the extensive use of sustainable jet fuel. According to t his article , American Airlines is working with an engineering firm named Graphyte to remove 10,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere by 2025 through this method.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

If ever there was a force-majeure situation that meeting planners had not thought about, this is it. According to this article from CBS News , “it was a tsunami that engulfed the hotel and neighboring restaurants,” said Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey, noting that it was sheer luck that the aquarium failure occurred at 5:45 a.m.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 30, 2022

What can meeting planners who support women’s rights do? Here are two concrete suggestions for action: Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post What meeting planners who support women’s rights can do appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 9, 2021

Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meeting design. “There’s no budget” I’ve noticed over the years that every meeting has a budget for F&B. But “there’s no budget” for core event design, which is actually about designing great meeting process.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is the mix of presentation versus interaction at your meetings? Traditional meetings focus heavily on presentation. Presentation versus interaction at meetings. But our meeting designs, in large part, haven’t changed to reflect this shift in cultural awareness. What should it be? The written word.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2022

Event professionals: it’s time to talk about COVID, duty of care, and the meeting industry. Yet the meeting industry seems to be abrogating its traditional responsibilities to keep attendees and staff safe. Actually, we should all have been talking about this for the last couple of years, but better late than never.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 20, 2023

And for meeting leaders working to build a stable team for a fast-paced, high-stress work environment, this might be especially valuable data. Some companies, the article says, post overly broad salary ranges as a work around the new requirements, but state regulators are working to crack down on these tactics.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 17, 2023

To understand all of Spark’s capabilities for helping planners with various event-related tasks, read this article on MeetingsNet’s website. In addition, the November/December edition of MeetingsNet’s digital magazine will present a comprehensive article on how early-adopting planners are using Spark, ChatGPT, and other A.I.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

How can meeting planners be part of the solution in the movement to defeat unconscious bias? See more : Hack Your Incentives: The Meeting in Your Attendee’s Head. It’s incumbent for meeting planners both to understand and to overcome unconscious bias. First, you need to know what it is.

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Endless Events

APRIL 17, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Ask Yourself: 45 Questions To Ask Before Meeting With A Virtual Event Production Company. Ask yourself these questions before your virtual event meeting! (13-minute Knowing the answers to these questions will help prepare you to have a more successful meeting! ? Articles and resources.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

In the Wired article, Wouters and Carroll demonstrate just how easy it was to open a Saflok keycard lock. This puts meeting planners and their attendees, who are often gathered together in the hundreds, if not thousands, at risk. appeared first on Smart Meetings. It starts off with doing your due diligence with the venue.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 17, 2023

The new agreement is due in large part to the union’s strong presence in nearby New York City, where hospitality wages were notably higher than in the suburbs, said Arash Azarbarzin, CEO of hospitality management company Highgate, in this article from The Wall Street Journal. Now, he noted, “the gap is definitely closing.”

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 7, 2023

Now that small hybrid meetings are commonplace, what meeting room designs work for a mixture of in-person and remote participants? Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Meeting room designs for both in-person and remote participants appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The meeting industry old normal is over, and many event professionals are hoping and waiting for a new normal. What will the meeting industry new normal look like? The meeting industry old normal. For most of human history, of course, this has been the only meeting option. The meeting industry new normal.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many event professionals are hoping and waiting for a meeting industry new normal. We want to believe that, at some point, in-person meetings like the ones we’ve held for decades will return. Such areas are already holding local in-person events, but safe inter-regional meetings are not possible.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

What are the fairest rules to use when running meetings? ” I think it’s reasonable to concentrate on fairness to participants : the majority of those involved with the meeting. All meetings have rules, whether overt or covert, conscious or unconscious, that influence how they proceed. Status and power at meetings.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 24, 2021

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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