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New and Renovated: Innovative Spaces for Small Meetings

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Baraboo Supper Club is named for Baraboo, Wisconsin, and is the ideal place to enjoy brandy old fashioneds, prime rib, relish trays and boozy ice cream. of meeting and event space. of meeting and event space span the building’s 22 nd and 23 rd floors. of meeting and event space span the building’s 22 nd and 23 rd floors.

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Is Your Meeting Storm Ready?

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According to authorities, at least five people have been killed in Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina as a result. Read More : How Meeting Planners Can Pre-plan for Event Crisis Management The storm is expected to make its way north into Canada with wind gusts of up to 95 mph. Nearly 89,000 New Yorkers lost power before 8 p.m.

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How a Dairy Producers Conference Doubled Its Reach With Virtual

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Speakers for a Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin conference film their presentations at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison. The PDPW had to pivot to a virtual event in little time. That left converting the meeting to a virtual event as the only way forward. Cassandra Strupp.

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Meeting in a Pandemic, Part Two: Back to Face-to-Face

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A year after converting their annual business conference to an online event, the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) returned to an in-person event in March, 2021. Virtual events don’t always have that element,” Strupp said. PDPW’S 2020 EVENT: How a Dairy Producers Conference Doubled Its Reach With Virtual.

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Virtually Engaged with Robin Farmanfarmaian

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Editor’s Note : Following is an excerpt from Robin Farmanfarmanian’s new book, Facilitating Virtual Events: Driving Participant Engagement & Interaction. In the spring of 2020, as, one by one, so many in-person events transitioned to virtual , it became clear that a few things separated the great virtual events from boring virtual events.

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Lessons Learned From the Digital Evolution of Events

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Derrick Johnson (left) and Jared Young take part in the session “The Nuts and Bolts of Omni-channel and Hybrid Events,” which featured two speakers, Justin Hartman and Cassandra Strupp, who appeared virtually. What are the top lessons related to executing and strategizing around hybrid events?

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Energize Attendees with New Approaches to Breaks

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Janet Sperstad, program director for event management at Madison Technical College in Wisconsin, is seeing more meetings where sessions aren’t necessarily shorter, but speakers and topics within a session change every 20 minutes. At one session she attended, each changeover to a new speaker came with a five-minute break.