Endless Events

MAY 20, 2021

Networking at in-person events is seamless. It can happen serendipitously: when people bump into each other in the hallway or when they are in the middle of grabbing a cup of coffee. But no such thing is possible when it comes to virtual networking, which is why this is one of the biggest virtual event concerns that event planners deal with. In today’s episode, Nick, Will, Dustin, and Chantel reminisce about the olden days when they could strike up a conversation about the weather to get t

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Few industries were more impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic than the events industry. Event planners, speakers and attendees all saw their calendars cleared out last March, returning slowly with virtual events and only now showing a glimmer of hope for the return of live conferences. Like other industries, though, competition for attendance and participation is fierce, so event planners must take a page out of the corporate playbook and focus on attendee experience as a key differentiator.

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The Abbi Agency

MAY 19, 2021

While organizations around the world reeled from the effects of the events of 2020, The Abbi Agency delivered thoughtful and effective communication plans for its clients. The Abbi Agency is proud to announce our eight wins at the 2021 Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Sierra Nevada Chapter’s Silver Spike Awards. A particular achievement near and dear to The Abbi Agency team pertained to the tourism industry as they encouraged travellers to safely visit their locales.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

MAY 18, 2021

Tourism can have a huge economic impact on any given community. Whether tourists come to town for live music, a sporting event or local attractions, it’s important to have “sub attractions” that appeal to tourists during their down time. Retail stores are often good avenues to build upon a tourist’s visit and could possibly even extend their stay.

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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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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2021

Hybrid events are the perfect synergy between virtual and in-person events, but it can be quite challenging for event planners to put them together. That’s why in this week’s episode of #EventIcons, Sarah welcomes Kelly Knowlen to talk about the most important hybrid event tips and tricks. Kelly Knowlen is the executive director of sales engagement and special events at Hilton where she started building her career 28 years ago.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

As the world opens up and Covid restrictions are lifted, we will not return to business as we knew it before, largely because of lessons we learned about the benefits of communicating digitally. For example, marketers, human resources professionals and event planners will continue to leverage the advantages of virtual communications, including massive logistical efficiencies, the ability to extend the lifecycle of an event and the use of advanced analytics to maximize ROI.

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Social Tables

MAY 21, 2021

Not only does the layout of a hotel lobby create a first impression, but it also determines how the rest of the hotel’s design will look and feel to guests. A hotel lobby should serve as a place where everyone can feel welcome and secure while also providing an immediate sense of your brand. Being so, we put together this hotel lobby layout guide, which will help you discover new ways to strategically maximize the impact of your lobby.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 17, 2021

The TLDR version: in my opinion, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are not the future of event marketing. Read on to learn why. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Are NFTs the future of event marketing? appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 20, 2021

You know that feeling of sparked intrigue? When you can’t help but look, marvel and try to understand. When a hotel property is so different from the norm, it’s hard not to. Virgin Hotels Las Vegas does just this—it demands your attention—and looks good doing it. Divided into three separate towers—Canyon, Ruby and Opal—the 1,500-room (“chamber,” in Virgin speak) property’s versatility in its meetings space is something to admire.

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Techsytalk

MAY 20, 2021

This is a clip from the techsytalk Virtual Showcase (on March 27, 2021) featuring GigStream.

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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.

Best Corporate Events

MAY 21, 2021

We developed over 50 Virtual Programs for the virtual world in 2020 and now Live events are back! We are so excited to be delivering in-person programs again as companies start getting their teammates together again face-to-face. Even when COVID made it impossible to deliver live events, we were hard at work evaluating, improving, and adding to our successful live events lineup.

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ITA Group

MAY 18, 2021

6 Ways to Change Your Work Culture. For organizations seeking to become more agile and innovative, culture change is often a must. But creating and sustaining the long-term adjustments that come with change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation and agility demand new behaviors from team members that can initially feel at odds with established corporate culture norms—especially if your company historically focused on operational predictability and efficiency.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 19, 2021

The trail back to meeting F2F has to start somewhere. And for the 75 meeting professionals who attended Smart Meetings Mid-America Experience this week, the ideal place to get back in the saddle turned out to be the brand-new Hotel Drover in Fort Worth, Texas. Smart Meetings founder and CEO Marin Bright. The in-person event— Smart Meetings ‘ second in three weeks —was filled with innovative tools (color-coded buttons to signal comfort level and sanctuary seating to make distancing not awkward) t

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Techsytalk

MAY 19, 2021

#stopapihate If you didn't know, I'm Chinese American and I'm proud of that.

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Eventbrite

MAY 20, 2021

As vaccination numbers rise and in-person events become more common again, many event creators are thinking about how they can best protect the health and safety of their communities. Some are also wondering how they can help promote the vaccination effort — because the more people who get vaccinated, the safer events will be. Lately, […].

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Stova

MAY 18, 2021

Editor's Note: This is a guest post contribution from Jeff Starr, a Senior Producer at TRADEMARK. Author bylines and information are found at the end of the post. When we last posted about virtual event planning timelines , we were at the 16-20 week milestone. By that time, you should have completed: Choosing MeetingPlay as your platform and best partner to support your vision.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. But meeting professionals are different: They know what they have, know that it’s liable to change and when (not if!) it does, this resilient pack gets to work. If further proof was needed, the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “ Event Tech Survival Guide ,” should be next on your to-do list. In a virtual roundtable, Shameka Jennings , CMP, director of meetings and partnership development for National Council of State Tourism Directors ; Lindsa

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Special Events

MAY 16, 2021

Your network is filled with people who are ready to tout your good name—and they don’t even need to be in the special events industry.

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ITA Group

MAY 20, 2021

Distributor Incentive Program Ideas & Examples. As we look to the future of distributor incentive programs, we should factor in not only what we know to be best practices, but also adjust and adapt to the ever-changing landscape in which they operate. We want to be sure we’re focused on modifying those desired behaviors that yield positive bottom line outcomes in a manner that is easily understood and executed by the audience we’re engaging.

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I-Meet

MAY 21, 2021

Shopping in Spain can be viewed as a true journey of the senses. As you wander through a small town, or even a major city, there is no doubt you will uncover some hidden gems. Throughout the country, there are.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 19, 2021

European Union officials have agreed to reopen to nonessential travel for fully vaccinated visitors. According to the Associated Press , ambassadors of the 27-nation bloc have given a preliminary green light to letting tourists from outside the EU enter their territories. The European Commission says entry will be granted to those vaccinated with shots authorized by the European Medicines Agency, which includes those created by Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

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Special Events

MAY 21, 2021

Event branding is a personalization layer that goes beyond putting a guest’s name on a printed card.

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Meet Green

MAY 21, 2021

Change from Top-Down to Bottom-Up. We need both, don’t let corporate shame of personal responsibility distract from their impacts. So far, in my Environmental Realist Blog Series , I’ve focused on how we as individuals impact our environment. From driving and flying, to what we eat, to how disposably we live. If you’ve kept up, however, you’ll have seen the caveat I concluded two of these posts with.

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InEvent

MAY 21, 2021

ATLANTA, GA – InEvent, the leading B2B digital and hybrid events platform based in Atlanta, announced today the addition of marketing veteran Daniel Glickman as its VP of Marketing. With a pivotal role in the senior leadership team, Glickman will report to CEO, Pedro Góes, and lead the global marketing and communications programs. Post InEvent announces new leadership hire amid high employee growth showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 19, 2021

Who am I excluding? DEI. Jess Pettitt. After almost 20 years of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) education and consulting work, I have gotten plenty wrong. I worked in this space for years without examining my own privileges or how I even show up in a space to others. Not taking responsibility for my own actions and collecting vocabulary words negatively impacted my ability to create equitable opportunities that included diverse perspectives and experiences.

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Special Events

MAY 17, 2021

Spotlight on what to expect this summer at The Special Event

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The Black Box Events

MAY 20, 2021

In the Politics, Aristotle noted that “The first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.” Important to say here is that leisure, in.

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InEvent

MAY 21, 2021

A step-by-step guide to building an event budget. An event budget is an estimation of expenses and revenues associated with your event. It is a forecast of how much your event will cost and how much it will generate, detailed by categories. Creating an event budget can seem like a tedious task, but it is … Post Event budget: the ultimate guide for virtual & hybrid events showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

How can meeting planners be part of the solution in the movement to defeat unconscious bias? First, you need to know what it is. Unconscious bias (also known as implicit bias ) refers to unconscious forms of discrimination and stereotyping based on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, ability, age and so on. It differs from cognitive bias , which is a predictable pattern of mental errors that result in us misperceiving reality and, as a result, deviating away from the choices that would most like

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FICP

MAY 19, 2021

Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) is pleased to recognize its 2021 Strategic Partners. Strategic partnership allows FICP to deliver added value to its meetings professional.

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Gavel International

MAY 18, 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes While these vanity metrics (such as Likes, fans, followers, etc.) do offer some value to marketing efforts, there are better ways to measure the brand awareness that is so vital to a company’s ongoing success. Organizations can track the following 11 types of results to get a clear read on the state of their brand awareness online.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 17, 2021

The post The Australasian hotel industries greatest challenge – skilled manpower appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Michael Johnson. Adelaide SkyCity recently hosted the 12th AHICE (Australasian Hotel Industry Conference & Exhibition) with leading industry experts at the most prestigious hotel conference in Australasia. .

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2021

Event management businesses — or even event management roles within a wider organization — are often subject to a lot of turnover. This can be due to: High-stress working environments. Unsociable working hours. Part-time, seasonal or entry-level staff. Difficulties coordinating with other staff or teams. So, how can you reduce these difficulties and improve employee retention in your event management business?

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FICP

MAY 19, 2021

Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) is pleased to recognize its 2021 Strategic Partners. Strategic partnership allows FICP to deliver added value to its meetings professional.

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BCD Meetings & Events

MAY 17, 2021

4 Trends to Know When Sourcing UK Hotels for your Next Event. The world has changed dramatically in a relatively short time and we have seen our sourcing practices evolve just as quickly as a result. Here, we share some of the key trends that have shaped the way meeting and event sourcing experts approach the marketplace in light of our clients’ needs and priorities.

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