Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. J: Marketing.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re looking for some super helpful tips on everything from audience engagement, risk management, and sponsorship, to event apps and gamification, check out this grab-bag of free downloadables. It’s all in there, from initial ideation and market research, through budgeting and sponsorship, site selection, and marketing.

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Plan Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The last 2016 issue of Plan Your Meetings is now online and, for the first time ever, includes the complete Meetings Outlook report of MPI’s quarterly survey. The post Now live: Last Plan Your Meetings magazine of 2016 appeared first on Plan Your Meetings @ Meeting Professionals International.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 11, 2023

Morals and politics aside, site selection in post-Roe America presents groups with new risk-management challenges, argues one industry lawyer. Others in the meetings industry have long argued that boycotting destinations for political reasons is ineffective and counterproductive. Grimes, Esq.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms. convention center — 1,326 doors.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms. convention center — 1,326 doors.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

Meanwhile, similar bathroom bills are being considered in other states — 16 as of last month, according to CNN — which can certainly affect a planner’s site-selection process. Gender-neutral signs posted at public bathrooms in West Hollywood, California. Despite all the controversy, Welsh casts the issue in a positive light.

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Plan Your Meetings

JULY 2, 2018

and how it impacted significant meetings and, arguably, may have hindered important dialogue in the field of HIV/AIDS research. The following originally appeared in The Meeting Professional , March 2017. The post Travel bans hurt meetings & progress appeared first on Plan Your Meetings @ Meeting Professionals International.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

Here’s what happened and what meeting pros can learn from it. The Philadelphia Marriott Downtown’s decision to host the Moms for Liberty national convention has lawmakers asking questions, and raises important risk management issues for meeting professionals to consider. Industry lawyer Joshua L.

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