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Navigating Travel Requirements for US Citizens in 2025

Motivation Excellence

Earlier this month, the TSA published their final rule on the deadline and enforcement of this law that was passed back in 2005 as a result of 9/11 security flaws. Homeland security has an FAQ website that provides all the information travelers need to know. Yes, that means travel within the United States too.

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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

Seven key tactics event marketers can use to promote virtual networking opportunities include: Conference website: Even when prospective attendees are first exploring your conference agenda and speaker list, you want to make the networking opportunities clear on your event site. Adam Riggs is CEO of Frameable and Social Hour.

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How Did You Get Started in the Events Industry?

Endless Events

I was building websites and was able to find a way to make money doing that for a guy who had a marketing company and was also the dean at our local college of communications.” . I spoke there for the first time in 2005 or 2006 and had a good 12-year run on the show. I found them through a website called Desk Mod.

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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. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. This is not another success story about becoming a writer. My 1977 Ph.D.

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How Extreme Weather Is Impacting Events

Convene by PCMA

agency’s website. But of the 67 reports of business events disrupted by extreme weather between 2005-2024 that McKinley has collected, the vast majority — 96 percent — were disrupted by named storms or extreme rainfall. All the risks from these extreme weather events will escalate the more the planet warms.”

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How and Why Visit Indy Adopted an All-Digital Marketing Approach

Crowdriff

“We wanted to capture the UGC photos and put them in a gallery on our website ,” said Robinson. Visit Indy has also utilized CrowdRiff to create galleries for partnering attractions that are featured on the website. We have listings on our website for each partner, so we started building in galleries for each of them.

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Meetings Due Diligence in the Aftermath of a Disaster

MeetingsNet

Here is the seven-step due diligence process recommended by Foster, who has led more than his fair share of clients through post-disaster negotiations from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to last year’s hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Monitor key websites and news sources. Poll your stakeholders.

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