Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Now that events are going back to in person, how can meeting professionals deliver the same level of detailed success metrics to the executive team about the range of value delivered on the investment? Two veteran meeting designers joined Smart Chat Live! Read More: 8 Ways to Measure Virtual Event Performance and ROI .

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 4, 2022

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), Thursday, April 7, was launched five years ago by the 70-member Meetings Mean Business industry coalition as an annual day of industry-wide advocacy focused on raising the profile of the economic value of business events, trade shows and exhibitions, and incentive travel.

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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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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

Still heating up is the ongoing battle of women against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and the lack of female keynote speakers for one of the biggest consumer and tech trade shows. Know more about these events and what the fuss is about by going to the link above.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

I’ve lost count of the conference session proposals I’ve made to meeting industry associations that have wound through multiple months-long steps only to be rejected at the last possible moment with no explanation and a boilerplate request to submit more next year. But their inclusion looks good on the promotional materials.

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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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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. One of my colleagues, who attended the Rotterdam Experiments but was in a different group than me, shared their event idea for a trade show where no rules apply, ‘TRADE UNFAIR’: the gamification of a trade fair against the clock.

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