Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 30, 2021

Talk to any meeting owner who has managed a large virtual event this past year using a skilled emcee and he or she will tell you it made all the difference. Bottom line: Having an emcee allows you, the meeting owner, to sleep better at night. Add any additional information that will impact the emcee’s responsibilities.

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MAY 4, 2020

Providing downtime during any meeting is important , but it’s especially important to schedule breaks during online meetings. What happens if you don’t schedule breaks during online meetings. Obviously, there are times when online meeting participants need to take a break. Let’s explore this.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Is it possible to routinely start online meetings on time? Think about the last three meetings you attended. Why don’t scheduled meetings start on time? The reason that almost no scheduled meetings (in-person or online ) start on time is that we provide one single time for meetings to both open and start.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Obvious problems. Complicated problems.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Please stop treating adults like children at your conferences. Schools originally developed as establishments for improving the efficiency of oral communication of information. Or use this variant if you’re meeting online. So, please stop treating adults like children at conferences. one exception.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The UK & Ireland Chapter of ICCA, the global association for the international meetings industry, has opened registration for its 2025 Annual Conference, set to take place in Leeds from 26th to 28th February 2025. For more information and to secure your place click here. Registration is now open.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

London Hotel Group, The Wesley, has two sustainable hotels based in Camden and Euston, that serve as the perfect location for delegates looking for a corporate event, training, conference or meeting space in Central London. Bloomsbury – An intimate meeting space with a large LED screen. This room can also be partitioned.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? But first…. A terminology reminder.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, has released research on the importance and understanding of ‘Event Flow’ for successful meetings. We hope these findings will be informative for event professionals and considered as part of the event planning process.”

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The outdoor event destination introduces a new end-of-year festivities offering for businesses Center Parcs Conferences & Events announces the launch of its first ever end-of-year festive event package for business clients – Festive Meetings in the Forest – available at both its Woburn Forest and Sherwood Forest venues.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 5, 2021

If people come to meetings to learn, how can we create the best environment for them to do so? It turns out that trust and safety are prerequisites for optimum learning at meetings. How we learn at meetings. Only about 10% of adult learning involves formal classroom or meeting presentation formats.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Hologram technology can increase engagement and attract hard-to-get speakers Meetings may be a mostly in-person experience but—as we learned during Covid, with the use of Zoom, Teams and other online video platforms—the use of communications technology has its place in the world of meetings and events.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 5, 2024

Recruiting volunteers for conferences can be challenging but immensely rewarding. Those who are passionate, reliable, and committed to doing their best on event day can help you pull off your conference without a hitch. When it comes to managing conferences , recruiting the right volunteers makes all the difference.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For the first time ever, the Grade II listed venue in the heart of the capital has hosted parties as early as November to meet soaring demand. This caps a stellar year for the multipurpose events and conference centre in which it increased its new business clients by almost 60 per cent and welcomed back over 40 per cent of returning clients.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Her father had cerebral palsy, which brought its own needs.

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APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The hotel’s sophisticated meeting spaces, coupled with its outstanding service standards and competitive pricing, provide exactly what our clients are seeking. For more information about Luxe Lisboa Park or Vine Tree Connections’ portfolio, please contact emma@vinetreeconnections.com

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

A well-planned and executed conference will do wonders for your organization. A conference can help you achieve these things—if you host it correctly. To ensure your conference is a smashing success, invest in conference management. Keep reading this comprehensive guide to learn: What is a Conference?

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” And so it goes with meetings. It’s why businesses sponsor meetings. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. ” — E.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Though I don’t teach college anymore, I’m interested in educational class design because a class is a meeting. And much of what we can do to design great meetings is applicable to college classes too. Not so much by the information presented but more by the way it was done. ” Sadly, I was disappointed.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Jo Austin, Conference & Events Sustainability Lead at Levy UK and Sales Director at Lime Venue Portfolio, commented: This is all about best practice. For us, some of the best conversations happen at the kitchen, during the day were looking forward to seeing our clients, and meeting with our industry, to have these conversations.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 9, 2022

About Meeting Expectations. Meeting Expectations specializes in designing and executing strategies to achieve event and association management goals. For their annual ‘Spotlight on HR’ conference, the Meeting Expectations management team wanted to set a new record for member adoption and engagement on their Event App.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 6, 2025

Smart Meetings spoke with Herman C Deboard II, CEO and founder of Huvr Inc. , Smart Meetings What are the perks of allowing individuals to take part in virtual tours? This streamlines the property search process and helps make informed decisions. an interactive video streaming and marketing platform.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. It’s informal because I only list events I hear about, a minuscule fraction of the unconferences people hold every day. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month. Who holds peer conferences?

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Meetings and conferences are perhaps one of the most important fundamental ways in which people come together and change happens. So I’m pleased to discover an academic research article paper about unconference — especially since its title is: The Future Of Conferences Is Unconferences !

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Smart Meetings’ October webinar, From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices , breaks it down. As planners learn more about practical best practices and work to implement them in their meetings, before they know it, the scope and scale of sustainability don’t seem nearly so daunting.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 9, 2025

Corporate Events (meetings, conferences, tradeshows, product launches, brand activations, consumer shows, company parties). Overview Doc Customize the Sample Letter : Download and personalize the sample letter with your contact information. What Is the Live Events Industry?

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’ve not always agreed with Freeman’s Reports , but, if you’re in the meeting industry, Freeman’s Trends Report Q4 2024 is a must-read. Informal meetings with SMEs are rated important by 24% of organizers , but 48% of attendees find them crucial. The good news? Sadly, three-quarters of you are not.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2024 kicked off with our Annual Conference, The Power of Discovery , where we provided an insightful programme to support our members business strategies for the year ahead. With over 50 member venues, the Venues of Excellence consortium takes pride in representing the very best in independent conference and event venues.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Do you need to find new monetary sources for conferences, conventions and trade shows? While sponsorships have been prevalent for a long time, further information about the popularity of digital and print options might surprise you. Give attendees a discount code on the last day of the conference that is only good for the next 30 days.

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. In between structured sessions, there are scheduled breaks to enable informal information gathering.

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APRIL 11, 2022

Over the years I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of meetings. One of the most common issues I address that is rarely acknowledged openly is the tension between the wants and needs of suppliers and practitioners at meetings. But what happens when both suppliers and practitioners at meetings attend sessions ?

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2024

During a 1992 conference, I created the first of what I now call spectives. Spectives are popular and successful because, like peer conferences, they adapt beautifully to participants’ wants and needs. the 2015 PCMA Education Conference ) and small (e.g. the 2023 BizBash Leadership Summit ) conferences. A hat tip!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

From screen to scene, elevate your next event Finding the perfect meeting space is a process. To get a better sense of what is possible when you host your event at the movies, Smart Meetings took a look at Galaxy Theatres Grandscape in The Colony, Texas, and chatted with Frank Rimkus, CEO of Galaxy Theatres , to find out.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 7, 2025

I love the folks (especially my good friend, Jan-Jaap In der Maur ) at Masters In Moderation , a company that has been providing meeting and facilitation services and training in the European Union since 2012. Why This Matters In my decades of experience designing conferences, Ive seen firsthand how adopting these principles elevates events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Meetings Industry Association’s (MIA) has unveiled the shortlist for its prestigious 2024 miaList, having received a record-breaking number of nominations for a third consecutive year.

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