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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 company has set up a dedicated website and a call center to answer questions about the incident. The cybersecurity theft affected reservations made up to September 10, 2018.

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Poaching: How You Can Prevent It

Smart Meetings

Unauthorized access, use and selling of data : A poacher may obtain attendee information by unauthorized use of a website or database, or they may purchase data from an unauthorized seller. In 2014, the Convention Industry Council conducted a survey of 622 event professionals, and found that 73.1 What You Can Do.

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

From my viewpoint, the platform’s popularity and usefulness reached a peak between 2014 – 2017. See the graph of my monthly website pageviews below.) While engagement on Twitter is a shadow of its former self, I am seeing a significant rise in visits to my website — around 20% — since I started also posting on Mastodon.

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Honoring Indigenous Peoples in Seattle

Convene by PCMA

11, Seattle, Washington, will celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day — the Seattle City Council voted to rename Columbus Day in honor of Indigenous people in 2014, and the state of Washington voted to do the same in 2020. On Monday, Oct.

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Patience Fairbrother Named Vice President, Talent Attraction??

DCI

Patience brings almost nine years of place-marketing experience to this new role.

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How to set up + optimise your ATDW Online Listing

Tourism eSchool

Once published, your listing will then appear on relevant distributor website(s) who use the ATDW’s listing to populate their tourism experiences on their website. It can increase visitors to your tourism website. Tourism Australia’s Consumer Website australia.com. Destination Websites. Some Council websites.

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Better Event Networking With Mixtroz

Endless Events

And literally over the course of one night, which was November the 9th of 2014, my mom and I came up with a very primitive version of Mixtroz, I would say” Ashlee’s Business Advice. If you look on our website and look at our press page, we’ve been in Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Insider.