Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

But you’ve forgotten one important piece of the puzzle: how do you plan on engaging your attendees? Attendee engagement is an oft-overlooked component that is just as important as the venue or food and beverage. When you incorporate the event hashtag into a live tweet, it makes it easy for other attendees to join the conversation.

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Audience Social Media B2C Networking 68

Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

Event networking can be both a fun and confusing experience. While people love making new friends, it can be awkward at times, especially if there’s no specific venue and time to network. Today’s favorites are all about how to make event networking better. Making Event Networking Fun.

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Networking Attendee Registration Events 200

Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 18, 2021

Face-to-face events, conferences, and meetings were postponed or cancelled for the near future. Due to the pandemic, subsequent quarantine, and travel restrictions, our company shifted our mindset and developed new product offerings for our clients in the form of virtual events and hybrid meetings.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). Invent a way to make the conference successful based on the collective needs, wants, and experience of the attendees. The conference has run continually for the last 27 years.) This is something new.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 16, 2018

Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.)

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2016

For over 25 years, I’ve been designing and facilitating Conferences That Work : successful, innovative, highly interactive, participant-driven events that leverage attendees’ expertise and experience to create just the conference that participants want and need. It was great networking too!”

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Education Conference Social Network Logistics 88

Conferences that Work

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).

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Meeting Design Booking Meeting Publishing 114

Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 16, 2020

Marina Bay Sands has launched a state-of-the-art hybrid event broadcast studio at Sands Expo and Convention Centre in a first for the industry, as the award-winning venue paves the way to redefine the future of meetings. Collaboration with PCMA.

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Certification Events Audience Tourism 40

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

significantly increase owner and attendee satisfaction and participation at your sessions and events. I’ve been convening, designing, and facilitating conferences for over 35 years, concentrating on participant-driven and participation-rich event facilitation and design since 1992. I’m excited! Earn 16.00

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

With that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. In an industry shaped by attendee expectations, successful events have to cater to their wants and desires. ” For these reasons, millennials value networking over almost any other aspect of events. labor force at 35%.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Attendees want more control over the meeting agenda.

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Trends Meeting Trade Show Events 157

Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. Hub and spoke is an event network topology. In-person meeting : participants are physically together. The hub event and each pod may be either in-person or online.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Event professional turned full-time blogger Irina Graf has created an event industry networking and destination focused blog with an international view. The Meeting Pool. The Meeting Pool is the place to be for event professionals who love to discuss technology. Meetings & conferences. Smart Meetings.

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Trade Show Events Planner Trends 333

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Adding to my reports on new platforms providing online incarnations of traditional conference socials , here’s a review of online social platform Rally. Venue owners can make other attendees co-hosts. The host can broadcast a text announcement to all attendees in all rooms. Two points before we start. next to their name).

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Online Platform Panel Venue 80

Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To succeed, you have to be dynamic, you have to be flexible, and, above all, you have to be in tune with attendee desires. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Industry Performance Trends. percent over the next two years.

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Trends Meeting Planner Venue 167

Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Incentive travel is an important subset of the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry. Generally, the vacation lasts from three to seven days and blends team-building activities, professional networking opportunities and free personal time to explore the destination. What is Incentive Travel?

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