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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

It was a great learning experience working with technology and international partners. 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. How did you feel?

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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

Corbin Ball, a leading event-technology consultant, deleted his 16-year-old Twitter account at the end of October, writing that Twitter, now X, has “gone off the rails” under owner Elon Musk’s leadership. After Slido was acquired in 2021, Holub cofounded Remote People, a consulting and training company for remote teams, based in the U.K.

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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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How Event Professionals Can Think Like Futurists

Convene by PCMA

Besides using our imagination and keeping our antennae up, what else can we learn from the experts to become, as New York Times bestselling author and technology futurist Daniel Burrus put it, anticipatory rather than reactionary? Are there new technologies out there that can start bridging the two experiences? Lesson No. Joyce Gioia.

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

I spent the summer of 1973 working for the Long-Range Studies Department of the British Post Office, a long-defunct group that attempted to predict the exciting future that new technologies would surely bring about.

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America’s Housing Shortage Is Intensifying During the Pandemic—Especially in Relatively Affordable Places Like San Antonio and Baltimore

Redfin

These factors have deepened an already-acute housing shortage set off by a homebuilding slowdown after the 2008 financial crisis and the increasing tendency of homeowners to hold onto their houses for longer. Where Supply Is Shrinking. Where Supply Is Growing.

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Key Takeaways from Tech Sector Layoffs

Gavel International

The assumption was that demand for technology and virtual needs would continue for some time. remote working environments; increase in online activity such as entertainment streaming and retail; beliefs that virtual would overtake demand for in-person activities, etc.) What if the demand for certain types of technology declined?

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