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Meeting Facilitation
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Your Annual Meeting is a Membership Product
Ask most association executives how their annual meeting went, and they will tell you about attendance. Ask how…
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What Sephora and Ulta Know About Your Members That You Dont
Earlier this year, three million people tried to get a ticket to a beauty expo. There were 3,000…
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Is Your Event Still Worth the Trip?
International attendance has long been one of the clearest indicators of an event’s global relevance. When professionals travel…
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3 Strategies for Managing Association Conference Abstracts
Organizing an association conference comes with its fair share of complexities. Between coordinating venue logistics, tracking registrations, overseeing…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 2 years old
Boost Attendance and Membership With Your Event Marketing
Annual events are often the cornerstone of an association’s activities, providing a unique opportunity to engage current members…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 2 years old
How to Plan a Milestone Celebration With a Small Staff
A significant anniversary for an association is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and the ability to thrive against…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 2 years old
Enhance Your Events With Experiential Design
If you want someone to take a particular action, you can ask, incentivize, or possibly coerce them. But…
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Four Ways to Help Attendees Retain Conference Takeaways
Association professionals put so much thought, effort, time, and money into planning exceptional conference experiences. There are many…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Facilitate Effective Intergenerational Networking at Virtual Events
The COVID-19 pandemic, while disruptive, also yielded some unexpected silver linings. For the Association of Child Life Professionals…
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Clear the Way for Breakthrough Teams
Sir Joshua Reynolds, an 18th-century English painter and philosopher, once said, “There’s no expedient to which a man…
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How to Use Games to Bring Virtual Attendees Together
So, thank you for coming. We’ll get um … started in just a few—hang on, I can’t see…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Low-Cost to High-End Virtual Meeting Options
Since the pandemic began almost a year ago, most associations have been faced with running a virtual meeting.…
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Checklist for Facilitating Online Meetings
A step-by-step guide from Strategy Matters, LLC to designing and facilitating interactive virtual meetings, from setting goals and…
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Virtual Meeting Tips for a Global Staff
Sales and marketing Executives International is a small association with a wide footprint—its staff members and contractors work in…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
How an Industry Summit Tackled a Big Issue for Members
The jewelry industry is a complicated one, with different types of professionals who have different goals, standards, and budgets.…
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How to Ease First-Time Attendee Anxiety
The Grant Professionals Association always had a first-timers’ breakfast at its annual conference, but it was outdated, and attendees…
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How to Design and Execute a Hybrid Meeting Strategy
For many associations, the thought of taking even a small part of a meeting virtual can seem both…
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Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Q&A?
In 2015, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) was looking for ways to shake up…
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Meet the Meetings Innovators
Experiential learning, organic networking, cutting-edge technology: Those are some of the buzzwords you hear when discussing the association…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Creating Connections With an Attendee Art Exhibit
What do the International Ombudsman Association and Burning Man have in common? On the surface, not a whole…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
How to Engage and Coach Conference Session Designers
After planning successful biennial conferences for 20 years, why would our association change the content-development process? Exponent Philanthropy’s…
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Daily Buzz: What Freelancers Mean for Your Association
Contractors might be temporary, but treating them like part of the larger team can boost talent and productivity.…
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Three Tips for Facilitating Virtual Meetings
Thanks to a wide range of technology tools, virtual meetings are now a reality for many associations. Communication…
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Questions to Consider When Working With Language Interpreters at Conferences
Picture this: Your association has organized a large meeting and a number of attendees will not be English…
