SmartMeetings

APRIL 5, 2017

Recently, Smart Meetings had the pleasure of attending the Meetings Industry Council (MIC) of Colorado’s first-ever two day annual conference. MIC of Colorado is a coalition made up of 13 organizations involved in the meetings and events industry.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

In addition to data about quantifiable things like the size, frequency, costs, and types of meetings, our Annual Meetings Market Survey also captures a wealth of data in the form of comments in response to a series of open-ended questions. Last week we published comments about the meeting industry’s biggest challenges.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2018

After wrapping up what he felt was another successful Risk Management Society (RIMS) conference in 2017, RIMS vice president of events and education, Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES, got some disturbing feedback: Multiple women said they had felt out of place at the event. Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES. RIMS18 Diversity Meetup.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Photo © 2017 The Washington Post. Yesterday afternoon we talked to Mike Waterman, president of Visit Houston, about how his city’s meetings infrastructure came through Harvey, and what’s next. Did Houston’s meetings infrastructure suffer any major damage? The George R. I don’t think it does.

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Plan Your Meetings

MAY 20, 2019

Fast forward to Las Vegas, October 2017, where, in the matter of 10 minutes, a gunman using 23 weapons fired more than 1,100 rounds of ammunition aimed at country music festival goers, killing 58 and injuring more than 800. 4 phases of risk management. Risk management has four phases, and this is where analysis steps in.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Conduct regular risk management evaluations. Do things right, and you might wind up with great testimonials, just like Frances Faulkenberg had for Silverado: “I am the Event Chair for an industry group and we had our annual meeting planned for the Silverado Resort on November 8-10, 2017.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Featured on Forbes as a “Top 20 Influencer of Chief Marketing Officers” – 2018 #1 Global Content Marketing Influencer – 2018 Listed on Forbes as one of the “Top 20 Influencers of CMO’s” – 2017 Ranked by Apollo Research in the “Top 20 Influencers of Digital Marketers in the USA” – 2016 Where to Find him? Where to find him? Where to find him?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Featured on Forbes as a “Top 20 Influencer of Chief Marketing Officers” – 2018 #1 Global Content Marketing Influencer – 2018 Listed on Forbes as one of the “Top 20 Influencers of CMO’s” – 2017 Ranked by Apollo Research in the “Top 20 Influencers of Digital Marketers in the USA” – 2016 Where to Find him? Where to find him? Where to find him?

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 22, 2017

Meeting organizers call them poachers, or pirates. That poll was redone in February [2017], and it’s now 20 percent of consumers who report that this has happened. How does this usually play out at meetings and conventions? Bad bookings are on the rise. In 2016, a poll from American Hotel & Lodging Association showed $3.9

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

That evening, ESC’s leadership consulted on the phone and quickly determined to go ahead with ESC Congress 2017. — Shelley Wood (@ShelleyWood2) August 18, 2017. — Dr Geraldine A Lee (@Gerrythecynic) August 26, 2017. — Dr. Martha Gulati (@DrMarthaGulati) August 18, 2017. If not, we will be giving in.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Photo © 2017 The Washington Post. Brown CC (@GRBCC) September 6, 2017. — TxDOT-Beaumont (@TxDOTBeaumont) October 3, 2017. Did you have any major meeting or convention business in the city at that time? — Houston HCDD (@HoustonHCDD) September 3, 2017. The George R. It’s not an accident that the George R.

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Skiddle

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 2017, YouGov reported that 53% of women experience sexual harassment in a pub, club or bar. We have tailored a Risk Management approach through our partnership with RSM to combat sexual harassment, who have supported us with our development and use of their Risk Management Technology Insight4grc.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

Jeremy Rifkin will speak at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 , which will be held in Austin on Jan. That infrastructure peaked in its productivity over 20 years ago all over the world.’”. Given her own background in the sciences, it’s not surprising that Merkel heeded Rifkin’s call to action.

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Plan Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Until recently, he says, the topic of guns at meetings and events simply hasn’t received much attention. At one event, Johnston recalls meeting a couple from Arizona who showed up each wearing a holster with a legal handgun. Our staffs met with the management of the Henry B. Review gun laws on a state-by-state basis.).

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s going to get out there, so it might as well be out there in a good way.” — Darlene Somers, senior meetings manager, Association Management Center. Sometimes we forget when our job is to solve a problem — not to be creative.” — Dave Owens, professor for the practice of management and innovation, Vanderbilt University. .”

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms. convention center — 1,326 doors.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms. convention center — 1,326 doors.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

Remember that glorious 2017 music festival in the Bahamas that garnered headlines for its excellent planning, exceptional execution and gorgeous attendees? After biting my nails and laughing for three hours watching the pair of Fyre docs, I thought more about the representation of meeting/event planning in film. meetings & events.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 2, 2017

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) has released its quarterly Meetings Outlook report. The report presents trends and predictions that MPI members believe will have a major impact on the meetings industry. Meeting budgets are rising. Meeting space availability is up. However, that hasn’t been the case.

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Plan Your Meetings

JULY 2, 2018

and how it impacted significant meetings and, arguably, may have hindered important dialogue in the field of HIV/AIDS research. The following originally appeared in The Meeting Professional , March 2017. As such, it’s an important time to explore a prior travel ban for travelers to the U.S. In light of the latest U.S.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meeting planners face a growing stressor in an otherwise healthy industry. There is a lot of good news in this week’s release of the third edition of Development Counsellors International survey, A View from Meeting Planners: Winning Strategies in Destination Marketing. trillion in 2017 with continued growth forecast.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2017

It’s gotten bad enough that Meet Puerto Rico — whose destination has taken a major hit on travel because of the misperception that it’s been ravaged by the Zika virus — organized a forum on May 1 called “Traveling in These Times.” How is the meetings and travel industry responding to this perfect storm of challenges?

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