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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

Endless Events

Online Courses, Blogs, & Other Free Content. The internet is teeming with online courses and on-demand content from and for event professionals. Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published in April 2014 by Kaitlin Colston. But how do you get started? It has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

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Language Interpretation Is the Next Wave in Virtual Meetings

Smart Meetings

Read More : 4 Tips to Make Your Online Event a Success. Interprefy has essentially been a hybrid events service since the company’s genesis in 2014, long before the pandemic turned the industry upside down. Interprefy Expands and Innovates.

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How to Secure Your Event in the Face of Rising Active Shooter Incidents

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The number of people killed in mass shootings has risen from 272 in 2014 to 692 in 2021. Herrera recommends using every available resource—he brings in local, state and federal officials to close any gaps in training and utilizes FEMA’s free online security training. Employ a Guest Service Approach.

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The Importance Of Feedback & Follow-Up Meeting After Events

Endless Events

There are a few ways to measure engagement for your event: Online mentions. It also means they want to continue the conversation, further boosting your event’s brand and online engagement. Create a thriving online community. Net promoter score. This is where your audience lives and communicates year-round.

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3 Steps to Encourage Customer Advocacy of your Tourism Experience Online

Tourism eSchool

3 Steps to Encourage Customer Advocacy of your Tourism Experience Online. When your customers and visitors share photos and videos of your tourism experience on social media, they are offering a highly-trusted, personal recommendation of your tourism brand to their online community of family and friends. By Rebecca White.

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How to set up + optimise your ATDW Online Listing

Tourism eSchool

The Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW) is a national, central online database which features listings of thousands of tourism experiences, events and destination information. These optimisations will need to be done in the YouTube platform, not in the ATDW-Online Portal. Write captions for each Image.

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500 Million Starwood Guests May be Victim of Data Breach

Smart Meetings

Personal information from as many as 500 million Starwood guests dating back to 2014 may have been stolen, Marriott International announced Friday. The cybersecurity theft affected reservations made up to September 10, 2018.