Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 24, 2023

Last week I attended the National Speakers Association’s (NSA) Annual Meeting, Influence 2023. Many of these can be replicated for improving your annual meeting results. Know what goals your annual meeting best amplifies and use it as a filter for your content strategy decisions. Create a Welcoming Conference Culture.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

A conference is a formal gathering that brings together like-minded people to discuss specific topics. Conferences usually take place over multiple days and require a fee to attend. Oftentimes, conferences include keynote speakers and workshop sessions, each designed to educate attendees. There’s no lead speaker.

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Socio Events

AUGUST 4, 2022

The more inclusive, agile, and captivating your event is, the greater chance you have of meeting your goals and reaching a wider audience. And if that’s what you’re looking for from your next event, you might want to consider planning a virtual conference. What are the benefits of hosting a virtual conference?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 25, 2018

Too often conference and meeting professionals assume that their role is best suited to planning and executing the conference. Sometimes they say, “Well, I’m not in charge of programming, content or speakers. Sometimes they say, “Well, I’m not in charge of programming, content or speakers.

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through how to plan a conference from A to Z. We’ll cover everything from budgeting and marketing to finding sponsors and speakers to reporting and analytics. What Does It Take to Plan a Conference? But how long does it take to plan a conference?

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Guidebook

JUNE 19, 2018

You’ve been working on your event for 6+ months — you’ve put in countless hours getting the venue locked down, the schedule finalized, speakers scheduled, the production design perfect. The day comes around and you wait in anticipation for your keynote speaker to step on stage. A great keynote speaker doesn’t just speak, though.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 27, 2018

Registration discounts, tourist attraction locations, newly remodeled venues, the latest, greatest whiz-bang technology innovations and a jammed-packed schedule of speakers can quickly fade from one year to another. Planning and offering a mundane, mediocre event just won’t cut it. You’ve got to plan and execute the right programming.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 14, 2017

I’ve been doing a lot of research and have learned that personalization can be achieved in a number of ways: Individualized — The customer gets exactly what meets their preferences or needs. Configurable — The customer can make certain choices that best meet their preferences.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If conference hosts and meeting professionals don’t foster and protect specific beliefs about today’s society and business, they lack the intellectual framework for their event to transform lives. Articulating, Fostering And Advancing A Conference Purpose. Conference Professionals Serve As Leaders Defining New Event Realities.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

At times, we also remove speakers and volunteer leaders as they may justify their participation based more on those roles than their education and networking experience. The first heat map shows the percent of loyal attendees by region, who tend to go anywhere your meeting is being held.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 22, 2017

Helping conference stakeholders engage in metacognition is the gift that keeps on givin g! Dump Legacy Speakers And Traditions. When was the last time you had a major change in your conference experience? Not just the changing of the speakers and topics like the changing of the guard. Something more than that.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There is a lot of planning that goes into an in-person conference event. That's why it is so important to start your conference planning process well in advance. It is helpful to review your successes and shortcomings from your last conference and use that information to help inform your planning this time around.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 10, 2024

What Is a Conference App? Before we dive into providers, you need to know what a conference app is. A conference app is a mobile application used to simplify event, conference, or meeting management. For example, if a session is part of a certain speaker series, attendees can mark it as such in their agendas.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Not surprisingly conferences have played a big part in my responsibilities over the years. I would estimate that I has been an attendee, exhibitor, speaker, organizer or content strategies at over 50 conferences over the course of my career, which gives me a relatively unique perspective. The Event Organizer, It's No Easy Task.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 24, 2018

Or even listening to, observing and considering your conference customer in your decision making process? The best conference organizers and meeting professionals are asking “ Who is the target market for our event? Scheduling expert speakers or successful member presenters is no longer enough.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 23, 2016

These effective meeting professionals are laser-focused on securing topics that meet’s their customers’ current and future needs. They realize that looking backwards does not help their customers meet tomorrow’s needs. 21st Century conference organizers must stop just scheduling speakers and assigning room sets.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2018

Established, successful conferences have leadership that are usually adept at incrementally improving their event each year. They focus on securing better content and speakers. Ultimately, a successful conference leadership team must focus on creating a customer-centric conference strategy. Needs are elementary and basic.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 28, 2017

They are the ones that complain on evaluations “…that speaker didn’t tell me exactly how to do this.” Presenters using advancement learning techniques focus on covering content to meet industry or profession CE requirements. They just want to meet the expectations of governing boards as approved speaker.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2017

Conference Professionals Become Choice Architects Not Just Curators Of Content Or Schedulers of Speakers. In the conference arena, conference choice architects frame their programming based on solving the needs of their target audience. Hat tips Whitney Kilgore author “ Ux To Lx: The Rise Of Learner Experience Design. ”.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 27, 2017

Traditionally, the goal of conference education is to deliver as much information as possible as fast as possible to as many people as possible. Today, many meeting professionals focus on distributing content through traditional and unusual formats—TED style, Ignite, deep dives, talk-show, monologue, panels, etc.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“We had this big conference plan, but we had to pull the plug on it. However, we had all this content prepared for the conference we had intended to have in person. .” Everybody was really happy to be able to come together and see some of these speakers that we were all excited about even in this online setting.

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Eventinterface

JUNE 20, 2017

Meeting and event professionals are very much aware of the security challenges generated by bringing people together. They plan for accidents, venue problems, protesters, weather related issues, and much more. One piece of advice stood out most: planning event security is not a task that should be accomplished in isolation.

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Master the Event

APRIL 5, 2022

The conference and meeting planning world has become one of the more important commerce producing sectors. One of the keys to the success in this industry are the conference and meeting planners that organize, plan and deliver the ultimate in meetings, tradeshows, conferences, seminars and product launches.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 12, 2024

A clear and concise conference planning checklist will not only contribute to the success of your event, but will also help keep you organized and sane…both definite musts in successful conference planning! Even meeting planners with “A Beautiful Mind” type memories are going to miss a detail or two if not written down.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 23, 2017

Eventinterface has partnered with Tap To Speak to provide conference attendees with the technology to easily communicate in real time with speakers straight from our platform’s program and itinerary tool. Now apps are coming on the market to turn mobile devices into microphones, connecting attendees with speakers.

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InitLive

APRIL 17, 2019

Conferences are some of the best places to meet like-minded colleagues within the same industry or creative individuals who share similar interests. In an increasingly interconnected world where relationship is key for business, conferences are a must-have for proper networking. Start the planning process early.

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InitLive

JULY 23, 2019

Conferences are some of the best places to meet like-minded colleagues within the same industry or creative individuals who share similar interests. In an increasingly interconnected world where relationship is key for business, conferences are a must-have for proper networking. What will people learn from your conference?

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. rst draft of a “Patients Included” charter, now used to set standards for patient involvement at meetings. on Friday, Sept.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Meetings are often so overloaded with material that learning may be hurt more than it’s enhanced,” says Andrea Driessen, Chief Boredom Buster, No More Boring Meetings. So why do so many meeting participants fail at applying their new learnings? The Conference Copycat Critter: Quick Just Give Me The Highpoints So I Can Copy Them!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 2, 2017

Imagine designing your next conference or annual meeting from scratch around content instead of picking up the template you’ve been using for years and tweaking it. That kind of interaction can be serendipitous, but it can also be planned. A good way to create content is to understand why people go to live meetings.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Big events with a high number of attendees might require up to a year to plan. However, if you’re planning a corporate meeting, six months might be all you need. Include all planning meetings into your event timeline so everyone can add them to their calendar and prepare in advance. Create your event budget.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 30, 2017

They expect conferences that are authentic, connected, contextual, mobile, participatory, work-related and transparent. Savvy conference organizers meet these disruptions head-on. They know that for their conferences to compete today, they must help their customers meet their futures now.

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Coterie Spark

JULY 1, 2024

A commonly overlooked aspect of conference planning is your ability to include a philanthropic element. At a meeting for the Pediatric Academic Societies , we worked with United Literacy for Children to collect books and raise awareness about children’s illiteracy. Give up one of your sessions to a speaker from your charity.

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Hubilo Blog

APRIL 15, 2020

You do not need a great plan, but a good plan that gets done with optimal quality. Strategies must be developed around online registración, marketing, papers call-out and submission speakers line up, presentations, nominations, engagement, networking and experience. – Tracking all activities and their progress. Ohh, Yes!

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2018

Through conference planning, I work to keep adult education interesting and relevant so my attendees continue to fight HIV in and for their communities. How I got here: I worked at NMAC for nine years, starting as the meeting registrar. When I was promoted to meeting planner, I honed my event management skills.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 6, 2019

After creating a near plastic-free annual conference , the Australian Marine Sciences Association and event management organization Encanta created a tip sheet for other groups hoping to reduce the use of plastics at their meetings. Video projections were used for branding, conference dinner ‘underwater theme’.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The level of activity in your conference programming directly affects your attendees’ energy and engagement. Meeting professionals must get involved in the program and learning design to increase attendee engagement. It’s more important than just scheduling speakers. Their Level Of Perceived Interest In The Topic.

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