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What Are the Dominating Tech Trends In Events and Exhibitions?
Exhibitions and other business events provide marketers with a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable face-to-face time with potential customers or business partners, while also allowing those customers to actually experience a brand's offerings and form a deeper...
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PlanningPod: Getting the Planning Process “Down Pat”
When Jeff Kear and Steven Feingertz decided in 2007 to leave the marketing and ad agency they started in 2000, they felt burned out and wanted to create their own product to market and parlay into a new business. “We were asking our friends, most of whom are in the...
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5 Photo Editing Apps To Make Your Event Photos Shine
Yes. Your conference or event needs a professional photographer. Images are important and your pro can only be in so many places at once and let's face it, any picture is better than no picture when something amazing happens. That is why you should recruit your event...
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7 Steps of Successful Event Planning for Professionals
For you and your event to be successful you have to put the work in prior to the event and ensure that your event planning is meticulous and well thought out. Every successful event professional should have a tick list to ensure that all bases are covered to make this...
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LinkedIn Launching GeoFilters for Conferences and Events
LinkedIn. A platform many in the event industry thought would die a horrible death, has certainly come a long way in a short time. Around these parts, it is now one of the go-to platforms for sharing industry news and updates. We actually get geeked out when they roll...
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Plan Events in Europe – You Need to Understand the New General Data Protection Regulation
There is a big change coming for those that plan and execute meetings and events in Europe. You and your partners need to get your house-o-data in order and you need to do it pronto. Beginning on May 25, 2018, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) goes into...
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What Virtual Reality Means for Conferences and Events Today
Here is the straight up truth. Virtual Reality is not going to be a thing for most conferences and events for a long, long, time. Really, it isn't. This is not something your attendees are going to be screaming for in the foreseeable future and it is not something...
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How to Find the Current WiFi Password in Windows 10
Here you are, conference planner of the decade, at the event center, zero dark thirty, getting ready to rock and roll. Set-up will launch as soon as your core team hits the ground at 5:30 am and the first thing any good event planning squad needs is WiFi access. The...
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Omissions, Oversights, and Oopsies – 6 Considerations Event Planners Might Want to Know
The event biz is kind of like the mafia… once you’re in, you never really get out. After a decade in media/communications, seven years of which were dedicated to the events industry, in early 2012, I decided to leave that world to pursue a new direction in life. And...
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