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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

Yet, despite the high potential for virtual events due to cost savings and ease of access, there is a considerable challenge ahead for event organizers to deliver a truly valuable experience by replicating the networking opportunities for attendees that exist during live events. which can include channels for each conference track.

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West Coast DMOs Rollout Alliance

Smart Meetings

Named for the chef’s mother, it was launched in 2005 and today serves warm meals to 5,000 needy children daily in 20 locations at 62 locations. Chef Serato also told the story behind (and attendees will receive the recipe for) one of his signature dishes, Salmon Chocolat, with white chocolate mashed potatoes.

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How to Honor Native American Tribes on the Fourth

Smart Meetings

It will return this year on the third weekend in July and expects up to 10,000 attendees. They continue to incorporate their cultures into the resort, giving guests and event attendees a taste of local traditions. To keep its 15,000 daily attendees entertained for the whole week, it hosts a wide variety of activities and events.

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3 Big Ideas from DMA West’s Education Summit

Smart Meetings

His reunion came shortly after the public introduction of Facebook, which launched in 2005. Read More : The Cost of Inaccessibility: Why Events Must Prioritize Accessibility for All Attendees After figuring out all these things on their own, Navarro said a local hotel reached out, and this is when the idea to create the guide was born.

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Hong Kong to host 2026 Lions International Convention

Travel Daily Media

One of the world’s largest service club events, the Lions International Convention stands to draw in around 20,000 attendees from across the globe. Hong Kong previously hosted the Lions International Convention twice: first in 1992, and again in 2005.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. And then in 2005, twenty-eight years later, I felt compelled to write a book about the new ways I’d developed to design and lead conferences that became what the participants wanted and needed. .”

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The job you’ll be doing in the future hasn’t been invented yet

Conferences that Work

Invent a way to make the conference successful based on the collective needs, wants, and experience of the attendees. 2005: I realize that the conference process I invented and since improved is incredibly popular with participants. The conference has run continually for the last 27 years.) This is something new.