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SOURCE: MeetingsNet In an effort to revamp their dated speaker protocols, one association crowdsourced their own membership committees, placing the emphasis on content first, speaker second. The result was a broad range of content topics, an ample list of fresh speakers and updated ideas for enhancing the attendee experience.
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SOURCE: Entrepreneur Though the term branding may have evolved from livestock ID to company culture encapsulation -- a form of story telling. Today, technology has given myriad ways to tell stories. Yet at the heart of story-telling is the human experience, such that the face-to-face experience becomes itself, the story.
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TSNN News In a ruling sure to influence pending legislation and protect event organizers, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ordered a travel agency to pay nearly $750,000 to the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association after the agency was found guilty of attempting to pirate both room block and non-room block hotels via unsolicited emails to association members.
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Harvard Business Review Though most employees find a high level of job satisfaction and personal accomplishment when empowered by the bosses, others may only feel overburdened and experience more job-related stress. A recent study finds that it is not the level of empowerment that determines the effect, but rather the way employees view their leaders actions.
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SOURCE: Velvet Chainsaw Consulting Of the two segments to the exhibit business model -- conference with an expo and expos with a conference -- the former is the model being most disrupted. Analyzing dozens of shows, trends for B2B buyers now show a pull rather than push effect to be more effective.
Visit https://velvetchainsaw.com/2018/03/02/b2b-buyers-changed-expos-havent/ to view the full article online.
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CEIR Event: Insights on Where Events Are Going
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