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Venue Contracts for AV, Electric, and Internet: Read the Fine Print

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Planners: Do not sign venue contracts for event production, electrical services, internet access, and support services until you read the full document—especially if you are bringing in an outside audiovisual company for the event, which usually results in extra conditions and raises prices for certain elements.

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Wrangling Better Meetings in Tucson

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Contract Lessons Lisa Sommer Devlin When the focus of the event is finding new places to bring events, kicking off with a lesson in what to include—and leave out—of contract clauses is always a good idea. Read More : Weaponization of Travel: Navigating Cultural Obstacle Courses Lowest Rate: Every contract is a futures agreement.

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Change Requests and How to Mitigate Risk

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Read More : The True Cost of Postponing an Event Documentation : When planning an event, documents, such as contracts, agreements and schedules are essential, but when they become overly complicated, it can make the process of implementing changes far more difficult.

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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

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However, registering provides all access to webinars, on-demand videos, downloadable documents and much more.”. 4, which covered the basics of the event life cycle, from creating the event and RFP templating to contracting and asking suppliers the right questions. The course’s second part will be held Oct. 25 at 11 a.m.

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Demystifying Covid Testing: The Differences, Access and What It All Means for Travelers

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Not having the right documents could cost you your long-anticipated trip. travelers to show some form of health documentation. Puerto Rico’s Travel Safe digital platform allows visitors to archive and verify documentation on a mobile device and can provide testing-site information for visitors’ return trips. Unvaccinated U.S.

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3 Ways to Make Your Contracts More Cyber-Secure

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Here are three ways you can, and should, be addressing cybersecurity in your supplier contracts, according to Joshua Grimes, Esq., Grimes says he recently was unable to print a document on a hotel business center computer because, for the hotel’s security, the computer didn’t have a USB port he could plug his thumb drive into.

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15 Best Collaboration Tools for Event Planning

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It allows teams to share assets (fonts, images, colors) and collaborate on documents. Event planners can “hack” Asana by listing speakers, performers, vendors, etc as “tasks” and attaching their contracts, promo photos, and so on to the task. Allows you to create beautiful documents with rich media right there in the app.