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Obsessed with conferences

Conferences that Work

Hey, meeting planners! Are you obsessed with conferences? Yet no vice bedevils me like my one desperate fixation, my shameful ravening itch: I simply must attend conferences. So, are meeting planners obsessed with conferences? Yes, you , you know who you are. Well…hopefully not to the same extent as George Meyer.

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The ‘New’ Outsourcing for Meetings: On-Demand and Task-Specific

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Meeting planners have been seeing more “Open to Work” badges on LinkedIn and hearing from colleagues who left in-house jobs to start their own firms. After leaving her job, she pivoted to her own company, Page-One Meetings and Events , which she had previously started as an LLC to do charity work.

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Skift Meetings Awards 2024: Meet the Winners

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Now in its second year, Skift Meetings Awards celebrate the industry’s most respected suppliers, setting the standard for excellence in business events. So, without any further ado, here are the 2024 Skift Meetings Awards winners! More Information HOTELS Category: Best Hotel Chain (Outside the U.S.)

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How to Move a 2,000-Person Expo to an MLB Stadium in 3 Months

Smart Meetings

Editor’s Note: Meeting professionals are still pivoting on the regular and can learn a lot from the experiences of their peers. She said, “This isn’t ideal, but, I have a captive audience of customers and suppliers that want to meet. The week of the conference happened to be an “off week” for the Padres.

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The Secret to This Tech Conference’s Exponential Growth

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Efforts to make the CodeMash tech conference more accessible to Midwesterners led to a more family-friendly event that includes attendees’ children. Why not, he thought, bring a conference to them instead? They were often too expensive and required extensive travel and time away from their families.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. I don’t want to go to another traditional conference again.”

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Agriculture and Agritourism in Virginia Beach

Smart Meetings

A great example of Virginia Beach tapping into its local farms for events at Virginia Beach Convention Center was the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Conference held in November 2023. She’s heavily involved in the process with the meeting planners and letting them know what we already do.