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Best of 2024: Sustainability

Smart Meetings

With a list of need to know sustainability terms, straightforward explanations and tips for incorporating sustainable practices into your event planning strategy, this article is a tool youll want to keep bookmarked. In this article, youll learn more about the environmental impacts of plastic that tell us why.

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What Mobile Apps for Conferences and Events Should I Choose?

Endless Events

Mobile apps for conferences are becoming staples. If you need extra help, this article has curated more than a hundred different apps to help you decide the right one for your events. What are your favorite mobile apps for conferences? The upside is convenience and providing quick support to attendees.

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Satisfying wants and needs at conferences

Conferences that Work

I use the phrase “wants and needs” a lot when talking about participant-driven and participation-rich conferences. Conference organizers have, of course, every right to create an event that satisfies their wants and needs. Otherwise, why bother creating the conference in the first place? Whom is your event for?

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Best of 2024: Health and Wellness

Smart Meetings

Stevens penned this article evaluating the link between the events and wellness industries. Arthur Brooks Shares Insights at DIAC24 Arthur Brooks , a Harvard School of Business professor and known happiness expert, stepped in as the opening keynote speaker at Destinations International s Annual Conference (DIAC24) in Tampa Bay in July 2024.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.

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Stop treating adults like children at your conferences

Conferences that Work

Please stop treating adults like children at your conferences. So, please stop treating adults like children at conferences. Though I remember a few conferences I attended where such activities would have made a distinct improvement. For an exception, see the end of this post.). one exception. No related posts.

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Obsessed with conferences

Conferences that Work

Are you obsessed with conferences? Yet no vice bedevils me like my one desperate fixation, my shameful ravening itch: I simply must attend conferences. George Meyer , My Undoing: Obsessed with conferences , The New Yorker, May 28, 2007 Of course, every good meeting planner is fixated on the details of the events we plan.