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Leading Business Events Management Company, PRA Acquires Island Style Innovations in Hawai‘i

PRA

Founded in 2014 by Tatiana von Oelhoffen and Colleen Reyes, Island Style Innovations is one of the leading events and incentive management teams operating across the Hawaiian Islands. The company’s clientele spans programs for the insurance, financial, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors, along with diverse corporate clients.

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Squaring the circle: creating room sets for connection

Conferences that Work

Instead, I’m going to answer a common dilemma faced by my clients: what to do when there isn’t enough room for large circle sets at a venue. I’ve explained the importance of curved seating and large circle sets in detail in my book The Power of Participation (Chapter 13), so I won’t reiterate its value here.

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Events, Faith Communities, and the Public Square

Conferences that Work

I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services. However there isn’t much academic research into event management, so I was happy to discover Ruth Dowson and Daniel H.

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Nine conference mythodologies

Conferences that Work

Mythodology: We can contract a venue for our meeting before we design it. Designing your meeting and then choosing a venue that can showcase your design will improve your meeting experience (and can save you big bucks!) This is the meeting industry’s biggest dirty secret.

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3 Ways to Engage Your Audience at Your Event

Social Tables

You have all your ducks in a row: awesome venue booked, killer catering secured and tickets to your event are sold out. Attendee engagement is an oft-overlooked component that is just as important as the venue or food and beverage. Choose Chicago (@ChooseChicago) December 28, 2014. I am going to #CASEDI in January.

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Should presenter contracts include a no brown M&Ms rider?

Conferences that Work

If the group arrived at a venue and discovered brown M&Ms present, they knew they needed to immediately check all contract stipulations — including important matters like whether the stage could actually handle the massive weight of the band’s equipment. ” — Brown Out , snopes.com.

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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

Conferences that Work

I understand their perspective, because I also feel the temptation to pin down specifics — number of participants, duration, venue, budget, etc. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer. “, and typically bring me in to consult at the “ how? ” stage.