Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2017

For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. Jacki Bennis, Square One Meeting Planning. “As

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Continuing planner education, like the industry itself, has almost entirely pivoted to virtual, at least for now. Planners can, well, plan their course time, study time and, in many cases, exam time. Let’s do Planner Education 101. In many organizations, the meeting planning function is viewed as administrative.

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Endless Events

APRIL 7, 2020

“Force majeure is a legal term that’s been around for a long time and it’s in your contracts, but it’s separate from your contracts”, Josh explains. But they let planners and groups get out of meeting contracts or frankly, any kind of supplier contracts too if they meet certain criteria.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

My event management company was hit hard, and I was hindered after having contracted COVID-19 myself (it’s no joke—take it from a long-hauler still feeling the effects a year later). While the program is new, it feels familiar, thanks to the experienced instructors and relevant content. That challenge, of course, became painfully obvious.

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Eventinterface

JULY 27, 2017

From my perspective, it is the disconnect that often happens between the meeting planning department and the meeting stakeholders. This shows up in two ways: First, timing: Planners often have to book space for meetings months and years in advance of the purpose and content of the meeting being known.

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Connect Your Meetings

MARCH 21, 2018

You’ll learn what value-added items and upgrades can be negotiated and contracted to further extend your budget. Speaker Bio: Tom Pasha has been recognized as one of the top event planners in the planning industry. You’ll see how banquet accounting works to see ways to confirm accuracy in the final invoice.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 29, 2016

By making a few resolutions and taking these simple steps, meeting planners can be sure 2017 will be a great year for fabulous events and stellar career progression. For meeting and event planners, continuous learning is simply a part of the job. Learn something new. In 2017, do yourself a favor by making learning a priority.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 7, 2024

After covering the meetings industry for 32 years, one of the few things I know for sure about this business is that nobody would hire me to be a meeting planner. My mind simply does not work that way, and I am truly impressed by those who can do all those things and produce a satisfying experience for attendees and other stakeholders.

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Eventinterface

APRIL 15, 2017

Jenkins is also a previous nominee as Samaritan of the Year and a two-time nominee as Event Planner of the Year by Event Solutions Magazine, an international magazine serving the event and meeting planning industry. Be professional, flexible, honest, and listen to those whom you have contracted for their expertise.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Building and coaching my team, producing live educational and interactive experiences. Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives. Less so the contracting, but more the sharing of ideas to make something work effectively in their space. Constantly meeting new people. Negotiating contracts.

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Master the Event

APRIL 7, 2022

Becoming a successful event planner requires skills, education, determination, hard work, and hustle. Education and Training. Before embarking on the path to become educated and trained as a professional event planner, it is important to know what the job entails in and of itself. Know What’s Involved.

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Plan Your Meetings

MAY 4, 2020

To help educate professionals during this unprecedented crisis and to help prepare them for the inevitable recovery, many industry groups are amping up their online offerings and making them freely available, as the MPI Academy has done for much of its content. Meeting Executive Re-Think Tank on Lessons Learned & Continued Impact ”.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

That’s why we’ve created a list of examples of the top pharmaceutical meeting planning companies we have experience with. Pricing and Value While budget is always a consideration, don’t choose a pharmaceutical meeting planning company based solely on the lowest bid. It is not for commercial purposes.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I hope for stabilization so that planning can be more intentional than planning for the unknown.”. Science-based meetings with continuing education tend to have fewer massive fluctuations, but we must continue to focus on the value of face-to-face meetings as travel becomes more difficult and virtual content more accessible.”.

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Corbin Ball

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

18 LINKS FOR MEETINGS, BUSINESS AND FUN. Or helpful business or meeting planning links? 6 Meeting Industry-Related Sites: ebook from Julius Solaris: The Future of Event Marketing. Kapow: very interesting new "meeting experience" booking engine. Microsoft adds live event tool - Glisser - to PowerPoint.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

Breaking into the meeting planning business takes a mishmash of education, experience and passion. It seems almost everyone I meet lately appears to have an interest in meeting planning and a meeting planner career. Immerse yourself in all things meeting planning.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

20 in Their Twenties is supported by the PCMA Education Foundation and Visit Seattle. It was this moment where I realized that experiences in meetings can have an impact on attendees, and reshaped how I viewed my career. Eventually, I would like to own and operate a small event-planning business in the Pacific Northwest.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

an associate professor of hospitality management at the University of Arkansas, who both advises students on internships and helps meeting-planning organizations design well-rounded programs for them. His students are required to plan at least two events before graduation as part of their classwork. Ogbeide, Ph.D.,

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Plan Your Meetings

MARCH 25, 2019

During MPI’s World Education Congress (WEC) in Indianapolis last year, SocialTables Founder Dan Berger explored a variety of current and upcoming trends impacting the meeting and event industry. RELATED STORY: Contract trends: What’s old may be new again. So, what does that mean for meetings and events? Commissions.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

You’ll find helpful info on a range of topics from staging inspiration and productivity advice through to real-world assistance in getting the most out of your AV contracts. Search within blog categories like education, sustainability and team building or check out her opinion pieces for something different. Plan Your Meetings.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

We also offer educational PYM LIVE Events as well as and webinars and certificate programs through our association with the MPI Academy. Plan well and prosper, friends! Plan well and prosper, friends! Manage contracts. Manage implementation of meeting or event. It’s a scary world, we’re just planning on it.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 25, 2017

While he is not a lawyer or a doctor, he was happy to provide the following answers to questions about liability and medical issues based on his experience in meeting planning and law enforcement. To get more content like this, watch Alan Kleinfield’s cover story: Zeroing in on Meetings Security. Short answer: it depends.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Just about anything can happen at a meeting—a broken shoe heel, contract confusion , a sudden headache or the dreaded dead phone battery. To help, we’ve created a handy list of things meeting planners should find useful. Need to find a specific detail buried in the fine print of a hotel contract ? Sound familiar?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine. Not only that, but “we were still a decade removed from the delivery of online education.”

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