February, 2021

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Mixed Reality For Virtual Events With Touchcast!

Endless Events

On this week’s episode of #EventIcons, we’re happy to introduce one of our amazing partners. Edo Segal is the founder and CEO of Touchcast , an innovative solution that’s bringing a human connection back to virtual events. One of the many trends we identified for the upcoming months was the implementation of mixed reality in digital experiences.

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How to Throw a Virtual Birthday Party in 9 Steps

Social Tables

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Gamification makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli

Conferences that Work

Gamification “makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli” Education professor Amy Bruckman , coined this analogy in a 1999 paper on game software design: “Most attempts at making software both educational and fun end up being neither. Fun is often treated like a sugar coating to be added to an educational core. Which makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli.

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How to Build Traveler Trust

Dana Communications

As traveler confidence expands and contracts, mirroring the volatile trajectory of the pandemic, the hospitality and tourism industries must make building traveler trust an ongoing priority. SiteMinder’s data-driven Five Stages of the Hotel Booking Reset captures this reality perfectly. Confronting Concerns. Before answering how to build traveler trust, it is critical to identify what the specific concerns are.

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Exclusive Travel Opportunities for Doctors to Attend Heart Congress 2025 in Dubai

Join us and connect with experts at the 3rd International Conference on Heart and Cardiovascular Diseases”, scheduled on May 05-06, 2025 in Dubai, UAE with the theme of “Novel Progression Towards the Heart and Cardiovascular Research”.

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Why You Need Proactive and Reactive Social Media Engagement Strategies

Special Events

You should be both proactive and reactive in your approach. Both require a specific approach, but their benefits are unique, making them a powerhouse when used together.

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A Collective Effort to Address Racism

MeetingsNet

If executive buy-in is any indicator, the new Tourism Diversity Matters organization has a huge chance of making a difference in the travel and events industry. Tourism Diversity Matters, a new organization focused on fostering diversity and inclusion in the travel, tourism, and events industry, launched February 1. Its founding partners—Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, ConferenceDirect Foundation, and SearchWide Global—have put together an inaugural 22-person board of directors th

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7 Stunning Examples of Event Planner Website Design

Social Tables

Skip to content Menu Solutions Interactive Floor Plans Collaborative event sales software that increases qualified leads and drives direct revenue. Event Diagramming Collaborative event management software that saves time, boosts revenue and drives loyalty. NEW Sales & Catering CRM Seamlessly manage and optimize group sales performance across your entire portfolio.

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Playing games, gamification, and the gulf between them

Conferences that Work

My post on gamification last week garnered plenty of comments on LinkedIn. Many responses exposed the vague ways people use the word gamification to imply, well, something good about a service that some companies provide. Like advertising’s liberal use of improved! without explaining what’s improved, the genius of the word gamification is that it can be applied as a plausible sounding selling point to all kinds of products, without ever saying what gamification is, or specifying

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Create the Perfect Event Sponsorship Pitch Deck

Eventbrite

Looking for sponsors for your next conference? Attract them with your stellar sponsorship pitch deck!

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Can Planners Mandate COVID Vaccinations for Attendees?

Special Events

An expert on meetings-industry legal questions unpacks the potential issues around requiring a negative COVID test or vaccination.

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COVID-19 Travel Consumer Sentiment Study

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

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5 Ways to Improve RFPs in the Post-Pandemic World

MeetingsNet

Here’s a third party’s advice to hotels, DMCs, and other partners for streamlining the RFP process as we get back to meetings and incentive travel. Ask anyone in the industry and they’ll tell you: RFPs are a necessary evil. Whether you’re a third-party agency, a CVB, a DMC, or a hotel, it takes a lot of time and energy from a team of people to put together a quality proposal.

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Marriott’s COVID Testing Capabilities: A New Standard?

Endless Events

Recently, Marriott International announced COVID-19 testing capabilities if you wish to book one of their hotels for an event. As you’d expect, the headline stirred just a tad bit of controversy amongst the Brew Crew members, and a lot of interesting topics of conversation soon arose in the midst of Merriott’s incredible announcement. Is this setting yet another precedent in our industry?

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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Event Announcements

Social Tables

Looking for a guide to corporate event announcements? We’ve got you covered. Here’s everything you need to know about what corporate event announcements are used for, why they’re important, and what information you should always include (it might be less than you think). Plus, save time with 11 great corporate event announcement email templates you can use for virtually any occasion.

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Have You Started Planning Your 2022 Customer Experience Initiatives?

ITA Group

Have You Started Planning Your 2022 Customer Experience Initiatives? The new normal. A fresh start. Or perhaps, though hopefully not, 2020: Season Two. Regardless of how you feel about the last twelve months, they are in the books. You hear me—it’s done. Now, it’s already time to start thinking about 2022 and how you plan to integrate an urgency for customer experience into everything you do.

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Evolution of the DMC:Renewing Business Relationships with Deeper Trust, Transparency & Understanding

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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Don’t be a hero — solve small problems!

Conferences that Work

When’s the right time to solve small problems? The right answer is almost always “ as soon as practically possible! ” Why? Because small problems often become large problems if we don’t work on them in a timely fashion. Unfortunately, people don’t appreciate the value of promptly solving small problems, because (see cartoon below) we love to acknowledge and reward heroes — people who solve big problems, aka emergencies — rather than the folks who proactively solve

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22 Positive Predictions for 2021, part 4

Special Events

Ready to kick 2020 to the curb? So are we! Let’s start by sending some good karma into the new year with these heartfelt stories from your peers about how they learned from the hardships of this year and plan to make next year their best one yet.

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Clubhouse: What is It and How Can Event Professionals Benefit?

Stova

In a decade where content consumption is at an all-time high, it’s difficult to imagine how a new social platform could gain any traction. Enter Clubhouse – an audio-only social media platform that welcomes two-way engagement that is taking the event industry by storm. Why should event professionals care? As a profession tasked with being experts on the “next big thing”, knowing what’s next allows us to pivot, assess, create, and execute better, more engaging, and forward-thinking events for our

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Virtual Speaker Gear: The Backdrop Edit!

Endless Events

The Event Tech Podcast is back with its third and final installment on the best virtual speaker gear. After talking extensively about sound, video and lighting, it’s time to look into backdrops. While the most expensive options generally bring the best results, it’s not necessarily so when it comes to backdrops. One of the main takeaways from the 2021 Event Trends is that expectations towards virtual presenters are slowly, but surely rising.

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8 Must-Know Types of Seating Arrangements for Events

Social Tables

Seating arrangements have the power to make or break deals, relationships, and even event goals. “Much of getting what you want comes down to where (event attendees) sit,” says Brian Lee, Chief of Product Management at Lifehack. And where people sit depends on the type of seating arrangement that’s chosen for the event, meeting, conference, etc.

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How to Design Incentive Travel Programs with the Future in Mind

One10 Marketing

The year 2020 took us all by surprise. Suddenly, everything we knew and loved about work (and a few things we didn’t love) changed due to COVID-19. We adjusted our workspaces (Hello webcam!), adapted our homes (Hello school kids!), and reprioritized our days (Hello zoom shirt!). As a result, our motivations changed as we adapted to the changing environment.

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Hypocrisy and Understanding of Sustainable Living

Meet Green

As I’ve gotten older, my expectations of others have softened. After all, everyone arrives at the present moment knowing exactly what their experiences have taught them. I try not to presume to know: How someone has landed here. How their opinions have been formed. What makes them do what they do. I’m not always successful, but that’s the attempt. With more and more of my own life to look back on, it’s obvious that I wouldn’t agree with myself from 10 years ago either.

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Lunar New Year: Celebrating the Year of The Ox

Special Events

From the virtual tea ceremonies, the art of dumplings, incorporating a decluttering master, to Feng Shui, these activities are sure to get your guests excited and engaged even virtually.

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The 2020 BizBash Event Style Awards – A Virtual Success Story

Stova

Awards shows and ceremonies will never be the same. The 2020 BizBash Event Style Awards marked a new era of merging celebration, entertainment, education, and interactive experiences to keep event professionals inspired from beginning to end.

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Remote Workplace Design: The Impact On Live Events

Endless Events

It’s been almost a year since we were all told to stay at home. And while we’ve all been wondering when will in-person events make a comeback , event profs agree that it’s time we adjust to the changes that were thrust upon us. Many didn’t give remote workplace design a thought at first. Since remote work is here to stay, it’s time to bring ourselves up to speed.

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5 Questions to Guide Your Event’s COVID Safety Protocol Plan

Achieve Incentives

At Achieve, our team has been working tirelessly to plan and prepare for hosting safe events. Each day we are learning new ways to lay the groundwork for experiences that are both safe and engaging for attendees. Our team has been busy getting certified as Pandemic Compliance Advisors , as well as traveling to experience and assess safety protocols in top incentive destinations.

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Your Seminar Planning Checklist: 16 Steps to Success

Eventbrite

Planning a seminar? Use this list of 16 seminar planning tips to reduce stress, put on a successful event, and make sure no detail is forgotten!

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How the New Work-From-Home Culture Will Challenge Event Planners

Skift Meetings

The rapid shift to virtual events has revolutionized the way event planners operate in 2021, but what of the parallel shift to working from home? In many ways, remote working itself has had a marked effect on how (and how well) planning teams operate. Event planning has long been known as a hands-on, people-centered job. […]. The post How the New Work-From-Home Culture Will Challenge Event Planners by Angela Tupper appeared first on [link].

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Who's News for February 17, 2021

Special Events

Special events business news

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Your Guide to Planning Successful Hybrid Events

Stova

It’s 2021, virtual events are here to stay but the events industry is more than ready to go back to live. What’s the solution?

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Music For Virtual Events With Song Division

Endless Events

Many of us would give our right arm just to attend a live concert right now. The energy, the connection, the music – to feel like a part of something bigger than ourselves. Song Division knows all about the science of music. And they have good news for us: music for virtual events can be just as compelling as an arena concert. In today’s #EventIcons, Sarah welcomes Andy Sharpe, Sam McNeill, and John Lombardo from Song Division.

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Launch the Incentive Travel Comeback

Achieve Incentives

Our VP of Business Partnerships, Ashley Lawson, is spending her year traveling to top incentive destinations. During her travels, she is learning about and reporting on the best COVID safety protocols around the world. She is on a mission to showcase that safe travel and ultimately – safe events, are indeed possible when the right precautions are taken.

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Hybrid Events Are the Present and the Future

Eventbrite

It’s official: Online events are here to stay. Event-goers are more likely than ever to purchase a ticket to a virtual experience. When it’s safe to gather again, many event organizers will take a hybrid event approach. But what does it mean to have a hybrid event? Hybrid events are in-person experiences that are also […].

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Temple Bets on Meetings with New Degree Program

MeetingsNet

The Philadelphia-based university hopes to graduate flexible professionals prepared to manage both in-person and virtual events. With all the Covid-related layoffs and corporate downsizing, it might not look like the best time to get into the meetings and events industry. Temple University disagrees—the Philadelphia-based school is betting on a promising career trajectory with a new Bachelor of Science in Event and Entertainment Management that’s launching as part of its School of Sport, Tourism

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Masked & Glitzed Up

Special Events

Entertainment Plus Productions teamed up with Experience Strategy Associates to deliver pop-up COVID-friendly events throughout Nevada