The MICE Blog

JULY 3, 2024

More than just a place for events, it doubles as an art gallery with about 800 square meters of exhibition space, where regularly changing exhibitions infuse corporate meetings with unique layers of art and culture. The venue also has 16 meeting rooms with natural daylight, capable of accommodating groups ranging from 10 to 150 people.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Meeting up and fueling up with coffee by @ladyfalconcoffeeclub, breakfast with @navitasorganics and more. Because of the positioning of the panels, along with bold imagery and a small amount of text, it made them appear like pages in a children’s book. Turner Internal Meeting. TOBY Awards 2009 for BOMA. Today’s the DAY.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 13, 2024

If you’d told me back in 2009 that by 2024 I’d have written over a thousand blog posts for this website, I’d have told you you were crazy. (I’ve I’ve published 827; the rest are drafts, but still.) I’d have thought I would have run out of ideas years ago. Yes, I do have new ideas regularly!

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

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. Write a book? Outwardly, I’ve succeeded.

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

Switzerland is a premium country for meetings and events. Between 2009–2011, the property was completely refurbished and reopened in 2011. The lobby lounge bar is a ‘meeting place’ because it’s close to the train station and easy to access for those coming by train even for a meeting. Full destination spotlight video.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

I ran them in my spare time for thirteen years before writing my first book. Having spent seventeen years developing the why and how of peer conferences, you might reasonably expect that the book provided a somewhat definitive guide for peer conference rationale and design. And, my goodness, I got feedback! It was great feedback.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

It’s described and explained in all three of my books. You can find the most detailed implementation in Chapter 18 of my 2019 book, Event Crowdsourcing. Frequent and well-designed small group work is the key to creating active learning and connection at any meeting. Zoom’s tool for small group work is Breakout Rooms.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. I’ve written books about them. You can fulfill your event’s objectives by incorporating these appropriate formats into your meetings, creating unique experiences worth remembering.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Although technology in the form of human tools has existed for over three million years and we’ve had books for over half a millennium, the first history of technology wasn’t written until 1954.” While the meeting industry is slowly realizing the importance of facilitating connection at events, traditional conferences still dominate.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 31, 2020

Just a couple of examples: electronic tickets were first developed for fare ticketing, while one of the first online booking systems was built by airline distribution company SABRE. Cooperating with metasearch engines to provide seamless booking experience. Google doesn’t offer booking, facilitating direct bookings.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 26, 2021

People are meeting their most fundamental human needs virtually. In 2009, Myspace was the first company in the social media space to begin stealing a real share of marketing budgets, such as from television and radio. We know what attendees and organisers are striving for, and more than anything, they are seeking a connection.’.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 3, 2023

As you may know, I have been selling my ebooks at a fixed price of $11.00 since 2009. Furthermore, I have consistently produced high-quality books on meeting design that have received critical acclaim and have helped thousands of meeting professionals to significantly improve their conferences. on April 15, 2023.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. I quickly discover the size and interest of the meetings industry. Due to interest and demand, I become a meeting designer and facilitator of participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2021

I frequently meet people who are, and I certainly understand the temptation. Figuring out ways to make the fundamental human act of meeting better, motivated by nothing more than the pleasure it gave me, led me to write a book about what I had learned. Here’s the story of how I liberated my life by ignoring sunk costs.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

The first time I met him—at the premier EventCamp in 2010 —he immediately purchased my just-published book, sight unseen. Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!) In 2009, Jill and Kevin created the JKWeddingDance for their Big Day, and the traditional Western wedding was enriched forever.

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Carrousel Travel

MAY 9, 2024

Past Client I have booked travel through Carrousel Travel in the past. The joint effort between two architects, one American and the other Greek, this outstanding building was completed and opened to the public in 2009. Make it a point to visit the incredible Acropolis Museum on your cruise to Athens.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Animazement, a multi-day celebration of Japanese visual culture, including anime, manga (a style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels), video games, and more, hosted close to 11,000 fans at its 2022 convention — a far cry from its humble origins. Read past installments of There’s a Meeting For That. 2022 attendees: 10,812.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 25, 2023

They market themselves as the meeting place for the culturally curious. If you book this spot you’ll also have access to a dedicated venue coordinator, catering and bar services, and both unique, interconnected event spaces. It is a former church that was converted into a performance space in 2009.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In a milestone year, the Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event went underway on Monday in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). “It’s more than simply arranging meetings and events that have come from decades of work,” said Julia Swanson, CEO of the Melbourne Convention Bureau.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. And, with a diverse portfolio of conference-friendly resorts and access to medical innovation campuses, Phoenix emerging as a cutting-edge destination for medical meetings.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JUNE 13, 2022

Several years ago, short hotel lead times made headlines causing problems and frustrations in the meetings and events industry. In 2015, we experienced an economic plateau after seven years of straight growth out of the 2008-2009 recession. And this is in addition to annual events that were already on the books for this year and next.”

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Travel Daily Media

JANUARY 9, 2019

Cvent now is a product ecosystem of two clouds: the event cloud for meeting planners and buyers, 70% of our business, and the hospitality cloud for hotels, convention visitor bureaus and destinations, 30%. In year one we did 200,000 dollars in bookings; in year two (2009) we did seven million, and in year three, 14 million.

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Gavel International

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Scott in his book, Habit Stacking. He includes the concept in his book Atomic Habits and Clear Habit Journal System. Add contingency plans It’s likely that there will be bad weather, you’ll be sick or need to travel, you will be pulled into a meeting, or something else will throw your habit stacking plans off kilter.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 18, 2022

So, in 2009, long before the well-known Paris Agreement , IATA committed to improving fuel efficiency by 1.5 Whichever calculation method is chosen, aircraft operators can claim emissions reductions from the use of alternative fuels that meet CORSIA sustainability criteria. Offsets embedded into the booking flow.

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Gavel International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In the book, Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh authors Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre explore what happens when the quest for happiness becomes too big. The bystander effect is a social psychological theory proposed in the mid-1960s.

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Solimar International

AUGUST 25, 2023

In agreement with this analysis, Mielke (2009) focuses on three scopes of deficiencies : (i) market access; (ii) internal governance; and (iii) the management of strategic partnerships. Monthly meetings track progress and issues. Annually, the community shapes action plans and projects. A six-member board implements decisions.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2018

At Smart Meeting East National, we met where the creme de la creme vacation at the majestic The Breakers resort Aug. This is awesome,” said Marin Bright, Smart Meetings founder and CEO, in her opening remarks. This is awesome,” said Marin Bright, Smart Meetings founder and CEO, in her opening remarks. This is better than church.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2024

I invested countless hours in travel and meetings, passionately explaining to potential buyers why the Dominican Republic was an ideal incentive destination.” He first learned of the CMP designation in 2009, saying, “it was a revelation for me. It was about gaining a holistic view of the meeting and event planning industry.

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The MICE Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The city promotes public transport by offering free tickets to attendees who book their hotel stays through Stuttgart Marketing. On other days, the three meeting rooms are available throughout the day. The three flexible meeting rooms have the capacity for up to 90 people. Additionally, Stuttgart has efficient road networks.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I joined Twitter in 2009 and have had ~8,600 followers for the last few years. This is not an exhaustive review (which would at this point need to be book-length). But its open network plus community ownership is a strong plus in my book. This is a huge plus in my book. And it’s biased toward platforms I like.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 31, 2025

aviation disaster since 2009. Weve included the latest updates for those with meeting or travel plans that include Reagan Washington National Airport. New European river cruises are offering seamless integration of healthy itineraries, giving meeting profs one less thing to manage. Auto Show, have been canceled.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

You’ve probably seen those awkward team meetings where everyone scrambles to say something “nice,” it feels more like a chore than a meaningful interaction. Read More : Elevating Meetings Through Wellness The Six Gears of Grategy® 1. Start meetings with gratitude. Attitude Gratitude begins with mindset.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 20, 2020

However, over thirty years passed before the first composite commercial jet entered mass production: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner launched in 2009 comprised 80 percent of its volume and 50 percent of weight in carbon fiber. Many global companies banned business trips replacing face-to-face meetings with video-conferencing.

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