Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

This week we’re diving into the dozy topic of how to plan a virtual event. And we’re not strangers to futuristic events here at Endless! We’ve covered topics such as how to plan an event without visiting the venue , how Virtual Reality can impact the events industry , and much more. So today, we’re diving deeper. Because we figured it’s high time to actually get into tactical tips related to events that don’t adhere to the in-person model.

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Pádraic Gilligan

MARCH 26, 2020

by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE Reasons to be grateful Today I’m grateful for Freddie White. As part of my new social distancing routine, I’m trying to identify, each day, something that I’m grateful for. This morning I woke up around 6:20 and it came to me immediately: I’m grateful.

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Motivation Excellence

MARCH 25, 2020

When employees start a new job, they often receive a couple of weeks for vacation time. Often, they use those days to extend weekends here and there. A vacation day might go to catching up on personal errands. With luck, they may take a week off to enjoy a family vacation. Travel feels rushed and crammed in between workweeks. However, a growing number of companies are seeing the benefits of supporting their employees through a generous vacation policy.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 30, 2020

How can you support a community online during covid-19? Over the last few weeks I’ve run numerous online Zoom meetings for support groups and local, social, and professional communities. In the process, I’ve learned a lot about what makes these meetings most useful for participants. I’m sharing what I’ve learned (so far) here.

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TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave

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Stova

MARCH 31, 2020

What makes a live event great? For decades, live events have been a popular tool for companies to launch new products, provide networking opportunities, and present important information. But what makes attendees keep coming year after year? And how can that experience actually be translated into a virtual event?

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Eventbrite

MARCH 17, 2020

Do the words “online event” make you think of lengthy webinars or live streaming business conferences? You’re in the majority. But 2020 is changing the game when it comes to hosting events virtually. Around the world, resourceful event professionals are getting creative in how they’re using livestreaming to broaden their reach, and they’re not always […].

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Pádraic Gilligan

MARCH 10, 2020

by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE. In the MICE business we’re used to things going viral. These things, however, are usually to do with the mildly embarrassing occurrences that happen at events, like the CEO doing his Dad-dance at the company Christmas party. Who knew we’d be dealing with a. Read more » The post Coronavirus – 5 things to keep in mind appeared first on padraicino.

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Special Events

MARCH 31, 2020

Big events company Ashfield Meetings and Events shares tips for making virtual meetings more effective during the COVID crisis.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 16, 2020

Despite the terrible impacts of the coronavirus on the meeting industry, there’s a silver lining. Hear me out! There’s no question times are hard. The coronavirus pandemic has already devastated lives and businesses globally, and we don’t know how much worse things will get. The meeting industry is reeling under a wave of cancellations, postponements, and uncertainty.

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Stova

MARCH 10, 2020

How do you stay up-to-date on what's happening in the industry? Just as the meetings you plan are crucial for proving education and networking opportunities for your attendees, so are industry events just as important for meeting planners to attend. If you are looking for some new ideas, you’re in luck! We turned to our panel of experts and asked them: What are the best industry events for a meeting planner to attend and why?

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The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.

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MARCH 2, 2020

The travel service market operates on a large scale. Online and offline travel agencies provide a wide selection of services to a wide range of audiences, so they rarely have control over the resources at the immediate destination. Who does then? Destination Management Companies or DMCs are the needed link connecting travelers and service providers.

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Endless Events

MARCH 6, 2020

The topic of 5G and events is something we’ve tackled before. You might recall us mentioning it in our 2020 event tech trends #EventIcons. Or better yet, you remember when Will Curran and Brandt Krueger dedicated an entire episode of the Event Tech Podcast to it. And as our resident tech-savvy, innovation-loving experts, these two have plenty to say on the subject of 5G and events.

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Pádraic Gilligan

MARCH 4, 2020

by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE A new Ireland product for a new audience, a single hotel contract for city wide conferences and a clarion call around sustained, consistent and wide reaching sustainability – just 3 highlights from this year’s Business Tourism conference that saw over 200 MICE professionals from.

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Special Events

MARCH 25, 2020

Business consultant and financial strategist Michelle Loretta offers tips to help event companies hold on through the coronavirus crisis.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 2, 2020

Should meetings be efficient ? “Yes” say thousands of books on how to improve business meetings. And I agree. But “No”, when we’re taking about most meeting industry events. Unfortunately, the meeting industry tends to assume that if business meetings should be efficient, meeting industry events should be too. Obviously there are aspects of meeting events that should be efficient whenever possible.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

Post authored by Rachel Stephan, Event Marketing Strategist, sensov/ event marketing. A lot goes into crafting the ultimate event experience. Putting a successful event together means a lot of moving parts. There are a lot of things event planners need to be ready for. We’re always looking at new trends, tech innovations and the social climate to see what will shake up the industry.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 24, 2020

Industry veteran Jennifer Glynn explains why her event-client relationships are like a marriage, “for better or for worse,” and why she’s taken up piano during the pandemic. Jennifer Glynn, CIS, CITP, is a managing partner at Meeting Encore Ltd., and the new president of the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence. Last year she was honored as a MeetingsNet Changemaker for the creation and rollout of SITE’s new Certified Incentive Travel Professional designation.

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Endless Events

MARCH 19, 2020

It’s time to take some notes and learn how to plan better virtual events! So as we all know, the events industry is witnessing a major shift. And many planners are looking to turn their in-person events into virtual events. But because this is fairly new ground, very few people know what it entails. Or even where to get started. And when we’re going in blind, chances are, we’ll be making plenty of mistakes…some of which are more than avoidable.

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Eventtia

MARCH 30, 2020

Texting is an ideal communication method for event management. It enables you to quickly and discretely send messages to attendees and staff when they can’t take a call, and also has a number of uses to organize and market your event as you plan it. Text messaging makes events easier to organize and keep on schedule, and can also improve the event experience for guests. 78% of consumers wish they could communicate with more businesses by text.

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Special Events

MARCH 16, 2020

Tips for special events pros on managing publicity in the fallout from COVID-19.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 26, 2020

How to communicate a COVID-19 related event cancellation to your attendees. Featuring examples from Google, SXSW, and Amazon. At the beginning of March, we published an in-depth guide on what event organizers need to know about COVID-19. In this guide we covered how event organizers can and have adapted their event strategies to COVID-19. Some organizers have had to postpone their events others have decided to take theirs online with a virtual solution , others yet have had to make the very toug

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Stova

MARCH 24, 2020

There’s no question that the meeting and events industry continues to be rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Events large and small are being forced to cancel or switch from live to virtual, with no end in sight. Guides for planning virtual events have taken over the web in a matter of weeks. But when it comes to virtual event planning, how much does size matter?

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 10, 2020

Help your team adjust to new systems and processes in a way that doesn’t slow down your organization—or hurt the team’s relationships. Most organizations undergo change on a near-constant basis. Think about it: At any given moment, some people within a company or association are adapting to a new organizational chart, or new in-office processes, or new ways of dealing with clients and customers, or new software systems, or something else.

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Endless Events

MARCH 25, 2020

Virtual event planning is taking the stage as the next big thing in the industry. Ponder this – in a world where technology develops and improves at an impressive speed, it’s our job as events profs to keep up with the motions. So why not be the one who takes the first step into more engaging, sustainable events that can connect thousands of people from around the world at lower costs and increased flexibility?

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Eventtia

MARCH 18, 2020

As events across the world are either being postponed or canceled it’s time to think about how we can still provide attendees with all of the important elements that live events can offer.

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Special Events

MARCH 11, 2020

Event cancellation insurance is important, but be sure you understand what you're paying for.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 9, 2020

A shoutout to Harold Jarche for his continuing explorations and advice about working smarter with knowledge. He’s just made available , under a Creative Commons license, his free downloadable field guide for the networked knowledge worker: Working Smarter Field Guide 2020. All of us require relevant knowledge to work in today’s world. Harold has developed models, frameworks, and practices for creating knowledge management systems that meet our individual unique wants and needs. 

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Stova

MARCH 5, 2020

We're sure you have a great list of event industry influencers that you follow on social media.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 25, 2020

Understanding things like event-insurance fine print and which areas of operation hotels get group revenue from will help planners become better at contracting and negotiating. With the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo postponed to 2021 , some of the biggest insurance firms in the world are breathing an enormous sigh of relief. That’s because the International Olympic Committee and other parties involved in coordinating different elements of the two-week-long event can’t make a claim for staggering

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Endless Events

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to learn the AV related things on a site visit that you must check. Because we all know how easy it is to not think about them at first. And you’re visiting a potential venue, so there are a million other things on your mind. But that doesn’t mean that AV should take a step back! Because as we all know, having your AV on point is one of the best ways to ensure a successful event.

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Eventtia

MARCH 26, 2020

As event organizers, we’re used to having some big obstacles thrown our way and we say big we really mean it. From economic crises to erupting volcanoes and now the COVID-19 outbreak, in situations like this, our ability to adapt and overcome these big obstacles is really put to the test.

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Special Events

MARCH 26, 2020

This event rental pro shares seven tips for making communication count during a crisis.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 23, 2020

Because we are struggling in a covid-19 world, I’m hosting a special Feelings Edition of the Eventprofs Happy Hour this coming Friday, March 27, 12:00 – 14:00 EDT. From 2011 – 2017 I hosted a weekly online Eventprofs Happy Hour, first on Twitter and then Google Plus. We used the #ephh hashtag, and announced meetings via the @epchat Twitter account.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 10, 2020

Post authored by De-De Mulligan, Chief Content Strategist for Mulligan Management Group. You and your team have been trying to book a big-name, big draw keynote speaker for years. Finally, the stars align, and their bureau and booking agent say yes! But at the last minute, they’re out. What do you do? You shared the news the day the contract’s signed via a press release, your event website, and social media.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 16, 2020

COVID-19 spurs Aventri to partner with three digital-event vendors with expertise in both the corporate and association markets. Aventri, a widely used event-management software platform, has entered into partnerships with three virtual-event companies. The aim is to help planners move upcoming events to a virtual platform in light of the global COVID-19 outbreak, or add a virtual component to in-person meetings in the future.

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