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Smart Moves: Access Appoints Three Female Co-CEOs

Smart Meetings

She has a particular knack for company values, seeing them as a way to center and support Access as an organization from within, and providing employees with individual and team growth and prosperity. In 2009, she opened Workshop, a Colorado DMC. In this role, she developed a passion for event design, art direction and marketing.

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Destinations Brace for Incoming Seaweed Bloom

Smart Meetings

Resorts and organizations partner to solve an ecological disaster The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, otherwise known as the massive seaweed blob, is currently heading for the coastline of South Florida, and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and is guaranteed to be problematic every time it washes ashore.

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A calendar of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. Why I do this work The incredible diversity of communities, organizations, and businesses that use participant-driven and participation-rich event formats is astounding. Even so, the calendar lists hundreds of events.

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Charting New Waters: Maldives Debuts First Sustainable Destination Management Organization

Solimar International

A shift in government regulations in 2009 transformed the Maldives’ tourism landscape. Despite this opportunity, many guest houses have struggled to reach the market and ensure that tourism benefits the local community. The Benefits of HATA HATA supports nature conservation, climate adaptation, and community benefits.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Because… • I suffered through a long period when writing a book seemed to be something I would never be able to do; and • So many well-known writers imply that all you need to do is figure out how to organize your writing routine, whereupon turning out hundreds of words a day becomes no big deal. This is not true for 99.99% of mortals.

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Big Plans for the Meetings Mean Business Initiative

MeetingsNet

Designed to continue the progress and momentum of the first 10 years of the group's advocacy work—the coalition came about at the start of the Great Recession in early 2009—this year's plans focuses on four areas. The goal is to have top executives in those fields understand the value of meetings, and become champions for them.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 2

Conferences that Work

Besides connecting people around their fundamental interests, The Three Questions is one of the best formats for discovering important topics, issues, and questions that were previously unknown to event organizers and a majority of the participants, as well as associated levels of interest. The Power of Participation [2015] (Chapter 31).

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