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CELTIC MANOR RESORT RENAMES CONFERENCE CENTRE IN MEMORY OF IAN EDWARDS

Prestige Events Magazine

The meetings and events facilities at the Celtic Manor Resort have been renamed the Ian Edwards Conference Centre to celebrate the memory of the venue’s long-serving Chief Executive Officer, who sadly passed away last month.

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Two novel hybrid meeting formats

Conferences that Work

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, Sounds crazy, yes, but stay with me!

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Get to Know… the cocoa cakery’s Christina McKenzie

EventSource

June 2010-2020. That was February of 2010, and by June I was selling cakes to friends and family and had started working on a website. Pictured left, one of the first cakes I made back in 2010, on the right is a re-make of the cake in 2018. Company: the cocoa cakery. Years in Business: almost TEN!! Let’s get down to Biz.

2010 296
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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event. Evaluate event production company abilities for a game-changing event I’m planning? Complicated problems. Complex problems.

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Event Trends Watch: The Largest Trends Database of 2018

EventMB

100+ event trends transforming the industry. This is your insight platform to navigate 2018 and access the latest ideas changing the way we plan and execute events. If there is one thing that event planners from all over the world love EventMB for it would be current trends in event planning.

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Patch Marketing appoints Alicia Earls for new communications director role

Prestige Events Magazine

Specialist full-service marketing agency for the events industry, Patch Marketing, has seen recent team growth, welcoming Alicia Earls into the newly created position of communications director. Ever since I first reaped the benefits of working with Patch as a client, I’ve seen the company evolve and diversify.

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Control versus freedom at meetings

Conferences that Work

As I wrote in 2010: The reality is that you never had control to begin with, just the myth of control. Unless your constituency is bound to your event via a requirement to earn CEUs, members can withhold their attendance or avoid sessions at will. — Why are they event owners? ” —Adrian Segar, Who owns your event?

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