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From Surfing to Rage Rooms, Five Ideas for Spicing up Internal Events

Event Marketer

Whether it’s a meeting designed to galvanize the salesforce or a beach retreat that rewards staffers for their achievements, companies are leaning on team-building events to support—and retain—employees. And there’s one strategy that solves for each of those objectives: internal events. Make it recreational.

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Will Meeting Planners Be New Targets for Influencer Marketing?

PCMA Convene

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. But despite all of these shiny new additions, the one thing the CVB keeps hearing from meeting planners is, why Oklahoma City?

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Webinar Provides Tips for Boosting Medical Meetings

SmartMeetings

Important insights into health-care professionals (HCPs) and tips on how to host an event that will attract and retain them were among the highlights of Jocelyn Cote’s recent Smart Meetings webinar. They just can’t get enough education, and meetings play a vital role in HCP’s career-long quest for education,” she says.

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Why Air Quality Must Be Part of Venues’ Hygiene Protocol

PCMA Convene

On my recent flight, the airline touted its cleaning procedures for health and safety. Meeting designer and author Adrian Segar also has sounded an alarm over the lack of attention to venue ventilation and what he called a “misdirected” focus on surface cleaning. Adrian Segar. Jessica Cooper.

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Give Yourself a (Mindful) Break

PCMA Convene

That’s not good news for the already stressed ranks of those who plan meetings, a profession which turns up every year on top-ten lists of the most stressful jobs. In one 2016 ranking , the only jobs that were more stressful were military personnel, fire fighter, airline pilot, and police officer. . And reduced stress. .

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What Meeting Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020

PCMA Convene

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? Convene has written about carbon-offset plans and how the airline industry is addressing the emissions issue. Face-to-face meetings are most powerful when attendees are engaged with the content — and each other.

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Essential Accidental Planner Resources

SmartMeetings

Now you have been tapped to plan an offsite for the executive team, a quarterly all-staff meeting or a new product activation. We asked some of the people creating meeting magic today alongside the massive influx of new meeting designers that have come to the industry since Covid for tips on what to ask your partners and when to get started.