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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

You had an event management agency during the 2008 crisis and lost 50% of your business in one week. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009.

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Homeownership Hits Highest Level Since 2008 Driven by Younger, First-Time Buyers

Redfin

in the second quarter, the highest rate since 2008. The pandemic and remote work are changing how and where we want to live . With mortgage rates at record lows and remote work on the rise, some renters are having an epiphany: They could buy a lower-priced home in the suburbs for close to what they’re paying in rent.” .

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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

After Slido was acquired in 2021, Holub cofounded Remote People, a consulting and training company for remote teams, based in the U.K. Julius Solaris ‘LinkedIn Changed My Life’ Julius Solaris, founder of consulting firm Boldpush, started a group for event professionals on LinkedIn in 2008, when the platform was only five years old.

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Answering Hybrid Event Production Questions We Hear the Most

Meeting Tomorrow

Although we’ve been producing hybrid events since 2008, they’ve exploded in popularity since 2020. Your in-person speakers can have a conversation with any speakers who need to be remote. That’s because your AV company will have someone logging in remotely to monitor the sound/quality within your video conferencing system.

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Solimar’s Sustainable Tourism Internship – Where are Former Interns Now?

Solimar International

Tesia interned at Solimar International in the summer of 2007 in the DC office and in 2008 in Costa Rica. Additionally, as a member of the first remote internship cohort, Jenny has worked each semester to improve the experience of subsequent virtual tourism intern cohorts. office to completely remotely across five continents.

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Business Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NFL History

Best Corporate Events

Roy Charette, a leader in the fields of team building and professional development training, and managing partner at Best Corporate Events, cites the example of the 2008 NBA champion Boston Celtics. “In When they all came to the Celtics in 2008 and won the championship, every one of them had lower average points per game.

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

“It was no coincidence that the CSX Corporation held its 2008 meeting at a remote rail yard in New Orleans, the same year it was the focus of a shareholder activist putting up a proxy fight. In previous years, it had held those meetings at the luxurious Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, which the railroad owned at the time.

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