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	“Experts” as speakers – a cautionary tale
	10 Commandments for User-Friendly Event Web Sites
	10 irresistible networking techniques
	10 irresistible networking techniques
	10 Questions for Our Industry, or Maybe Just One?
	10 steps to a killer meeting theme
	10 Ways to Drive Registration through Your Web Site
	10 Ways to Save Costs for Association Meetings
	11 fees planners may face when using an outside AV company
	11 tips for stating safe and healthy overseas
	11 tricks for spending less on F&B
	12 Drivers of Meeting Site Decisions
	12 event marketing tactics to engage and excite millennials
	15 questions for your event photographer
	15 Traits You’ll Need To Land that Association Meeting Pro Job
	16 ways to make your international events less risky and more effective
	2 Essential Elements for an Emotionally Powerful Meeting
	20 Reasons to Avoid the Internet When Searching for Professional Speakers
	20 Reasons to Avoid the Internet When Searching for Professional Speakers
	20 totally doable ideas for greener, kinder, better events
	20 totally doable ideas for greener, kinder, better events
	2015 Green Venue Report
	26 Steps to Mobile App Adoption Success
	28 Things to Check During a Ship Inspection
	3 foolproof ways to collect event feedback
	3 Smart Ways to Boost Registration
	3 Things Planners Need to Know About Event Lighting
	3 Things to know about Next-Gen Exhibitors
	3 things to know about the next-gen exhibitors
	3 Ways to “Block” Your Event Space
	3 Ways to Avoid Budget Envy
	3 Ways to Improve Your Meeting With Event Technology
	3 ways to stay within your AV budget
	3 Ways to Use AV to Create an Immersive Event
	4 clauses you need to know
	4 crisis management tips from the AV perspective
	4 steps to a healthier meeting
	4 Tips for Working With Event Photographers
	4 ways to meet the event transportation challenge
	4 ways to protect your meeting from spiritual faux pas
	5 Awards Ceremony Secrets
	5 easy ways to save money at your next conference
	5 easy ways to save money on your next conference
	5 facts planners need to know about attendees
	5 global trends to apply at your next meeting
	5 lessons to learn before buying event technology
	5 myths about attendees that can wreck your meeting
	5 Negotiating Tips to Get the Hotel Contract You Want
	5 Negotiating Tips to Get the Hotel Contract You Want
	5 steps to a great negotiation partnership
	5 Steps to a More Connected Meeting Harnessing social media’s super power for better events
	5 things about AV every meeting planner should know
	5 Things that Stress Meeting Planners out
	5 Ways to Make Your Meetings Matter
	5 ways to turn panels from boring to brilliant
	50 Ways to Save Money Planning Meetings
	6 ideas for interesting extras that appeal
	6 signs your conference may be in jeopardy
	6 unorthodox approaches to engaging attendees
	6 unorthodox approaches to engaging attendees
	6 vital rules for social media success at meetings
	6 ways to green your expo
	7 steps to limit liquor liability
	7 ways to be more mindful in your meetings
	7 ways to drive registration and engage audiences
	7 ways you can explode your meeting’s Instagram following
	8 Takeaways for Planners from Omni Hotels
	8 Ways to Combat Piracy at Your Meeting
	9 ideas for a virtual meeting toolkit
	9 Things that Make a Great Training Environment
	9 Ways Meetings Affect Hotels: New Trends Report
	9 Ways to Avoid Gifting Pitfalls
	A Gallery of Great Event Ideas
	A new gold: The transformative outcomes of business events
	A VAT case study: What gets refunded and how
	Add Some Local Flavor to Your Next Event—If You Dare
	Africa moves up the meetings agenda, with continent hosting 10% of global meetings
	Airbnb has “tremendous disruptive reach” claims association boss
	Annual budgets and attendee numbers down, as measurement soars
	App that Acts Like Yelp for those with Disabilities
	ARE APPS WORTH IT
	Are you committing these 7 deadly attendee sins?
	Are you optimizing these top event planning tech tools?
	Are you spending too much on Attendee Acquisition?
	Are your meeting attendees safe in the air?
	Are Your Travel Risk Management Protocols in Place?
	Art in Meetings
	Association launches research project to ‘transform meetings’
	Associations outline how government restrictions on meetings are hurting science
	Associations Study Widespread Benefits of Meetings and Events
	Attorneys Go Head to Head on Hot Contract Issues
	Audience engagement not yet fully understood by planners
	AV contingency planning for a worldwide hybrid meeting
	AV Tips to Save You Time and Tears On Site
	Awesome Icebreakers: Help Your Attendees Warm Up
	Awesome Icebreakers: Help Your Attendees Warm Up
	Behind the Scenes of a Green Hotel
	Beware: Disrupters are out to get your association’s meetings
	Big List of Apps: 62 Apps Planners Love
	Book Review: 167 Easy Inspirations for Greener Meetings
	Brands and relationships: Don’t they matter anymore?
	Budgeting for Global Events: 3 Essential Elements
	Can the international events industry ever be sustainable
	Case study: How one association reinvented its 90-year-old annual conference
	Chefs' Surprising Secrets for Saving Money on F&B
	Choose your energy, create your meeting
	Collaboration “absolutely essential” says organiser prof
	Compliance to cause planners most headaches, says report
	Conference accuses Chicago of favouritism as it moves to Orlando
	Conference networking makes attendees smarter
	Conference Networking Must Be More Than Transactional
	Connect Your Event and Customer Data to Measure ROI
	Conscious meeting planning
	Content Worth Sharing—and Other Reasons Events Go Viral
	Corporate entertainment tips from a Pro
	Corporate sector leads calls for Wi-Fi boost at events
	Corporate Social Responsibility at Events: Keep Attendees Connected
	Creativity in Planning Means Finding Time to Think
	Crisis and Communication Planning for Global Meetings
	Crisis in your meeting site: Do your carry on or cancel?
	Curating Music: The Sounds of a Memorable Meetings
	CWT predicts positive growth ahead
	Cyber Security: A Real Risk for Meetings
	Data security warning after conference breach
	Debate to probe ‘bid issue’ of event food waste
	Disrupting Medical Education, One Hack at a Time
	Do your ideas stick?
	Doctors Say Face-to-Face Meetings are the Right Prescription
	Drones give events the flight stuff
	Dubai announces plan to become global association hub
	Engagement begins long before people arrive on the show floor
	Enhance your conference offerings with Google+ Hangouts
	E-RFPs: What needs fixing, the tool or the users?
	European hotels on road to recovery
	EUROPEAN MEETINGS INDUSTRY TO DO MORE WITH LESS IN 2015
	European Restrictions on Paying for Physician Attendee Travel to Medical Meetings: Time to Think Loc
	Event budgets failing to keep pace with cost increases
	Event organisers need to make time for social media marketing
	Event outsourcing is rare for associations, but that may be changing
	Event spend up by 6 per cent says latest Bellwether report
	Events still necessary in digital age, say comms experts
	Exhibition industry growth stays strong through Q3
	Exhibitions mean Business: To the Hill we go
	Expect fewer freebies, meeting planners are warned
	Face to face most popular with delegates, new research finds
	FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS REALLY MATTER, FACT
	FCCI caste studies show the lasting benefits of business events
	Fewer than half of event planners have “adequate” data security measures
	Fight Room-Block Piracy with New CIC Tools
	Five Simple Rules for Event Marketing
	Food Restrictions In Events Increase
	Forecasts and Outlooks: Global Growth, More Meetings in 2015
	Forget the restaurants: Destinations sell their intellectual capital
	Four Steps to ROE: Return on Attendee Experience
	Free touchscreen for meeting info, branded selfies
	Gallery: 14 Trends Shaping the Exhibition and Event Industry
	GBTA launches new tool to assess travel risk programmes
	Gen Z: Hard-Working, Savvy, …Younger Than Google
	GENIECONNECT launches event attendee KPIs
	Get me a speaker on innovation!
	Glasgow reveals wider legacy of Phonetic Science conference
	Global Economic Troubles and the Meetings Industry
	GO MOBILE IN 2015
	Government Meetings Still in Freefall
	GPJ talks venue logistics at Cisco Live!
	GSK rethinks incentive programmes after Chinese bribery scandal
	HBAA predicts more smaller meetings and Airbnb growth
	How Associations Can Attract Millennial Members
	How do your meetings measure up?
	HOW EVENT ORGANISERS CAN PROFIT FROM DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS
	How Gamification Kept Attendees in Line at the International CES
	How Medical Meetings Are Solving Big Issues With Hybrid Technology
	How much speaker technology is enough?
	How These 5 Elements Can Help Your Meetings Lead Change
	How to avoid death by webinar?
	How to create an event with a sense of style
	How to electrify a castle and other unique venue AV challenges?
	How to fix 10 unfair or unclear hotel contract clauses
	How to make events more effective: Shut up and Dance
	How to master Instagram for meetings
	How to protect your meeting from cyber threats
	How to protect your meeting from cyber threats
	How to stop the productivity killers that plague virtual meetings
	How to up your event marketing game
	How to use AV to create a sense of place at your meeting
	How to Win the Meeting Budget Battle
	How to win the meeting room thermostat wars
	How transient travelers are messing up meetings
	How Twitter Going All Facebooky Could Affect Event Marketing
	How your attendees’ lazy brains should guide meeting and incentive design
	Human Trafficking: The Industry’s Most Misunderstood Issue
	I have seen de future of E-mail Marketing and it is equal part cool and creepy
	IAEE, PCMA and The Experience Institute Team Up on Comprehensive Study of the
	ICCA AND LEEDS BECKETT DEVELOP TOOL FOR COMPARING INNOVATIVE CAPACITY
	ICCA and MCI Win UNWTO Award
	ICCA: 'International meetings vulnerable to extreme ideology'
	IdeaXchange: Is Faster, Shorter, Better?
	If a panel, a Q&A and a keynote speaker had a baby
	If you mean business it’s time to get social
	Imaging the attendee journey of the future
	Improve Your Conference: Go Ethno
	Improve your delegates ‘healthprint’ with World Obesity Federation’s Healthy Venues Award
	Industry associations team up to address health and safety guidelines
	IPCAA 5th Annual Seminar on Compliance 2016, Copenhagen 8–9 March 2016
	Is it Illegal to Donate Food After an Event?
	Is there no escape from the meeting planning mindset?
	Is Your Meeting Scrooged?
	January 2016
	Less than half of planners are creative, research reveals
	Listen – your venue is speaking to you
	Long questions more popular with delegates, study finds
	Make a noise – but make it work
	Make your business vase for attending industry conferences
	Making meetings count
	March 2015
	March 2016
	May 2015
	May 2016
	Medical Melbourne: Why intellectual capital matters
	Meeting Design II
	Meeting lengths staying short as planners cut costs
	Meeting Negotiation: When to Step Away from the Legalese
	MeetingMatch, a New Tool for Business Networking, Launches
	Meetings ambassadors worth £500m to Edinburgh
	Meetings are due for disruption, say PCMA and Marriott
	Meetings mean business: measurable data on meetings and events will be mandatory
	Meetings mean vigilance
	Meetings Needs project helps turn wheels of economy in Ghana
	Meetings: The Best Decision a CEO Can Make
	Melbourne ambassadors net $82m for regional economy
	Millennial travelers hungry for bytes not bites
	Millennials Make Meetings Better for All
	Millennials twice as likely to extend business visits, research finds
	Mission before margin? Or vice versa?
	Mobile Apps at Meetings: It’s the Wild West!
	Modernize your conference panels
	More than half of planners ignorant of meetings programmes
	Nature of event sponsorship “radically changing” say PCOs
	Nature of sponsorship is radically changing, says group
	Nestlé 'disappointed' after boycott terminates conference
	New Data will help long, slow return of Government Meetings
	New E-book: 75 tips for planners
	New IATA Passenger Forecast Reveals Fast-Growing Markets of the Future
	New ideas for meetings in 2016: Flatbread, FOMO, fresh air
	New Lumi product to 'revolutionise' delegate tracking
	New Research reveals what matters most to medical meeting managers
	New social media toolkit for regional events
	New Software Creates Quick and Easy Manifests for Ground Transfers
	New survey to 'measure' events industry
	No boring speakers for Generation Y, says Davidson
	One company’s concession Wish List: Take a Peek!
	Only You Can Protect Meetings
	Onsite Data Analytics – A Goldmine for Meetings Improvement
	Overcoming global AV meeting and event challenges
	PCMA Convening Leaders: What You’ll Need to Know for Your 2025 Events
	Pick like a Pro: International site selection success
	Pimp up the mood in centres for Gen Y, says IACC research
	Planning meetings abroad? Learn a bit of local language
	Procurement more important than ever as UK hotel prices see double-digit growth
	Put Managing Risk at the Top of the Business Events Agenda
	QUICKMOBILE CONCERTO TOOL FOR PLANNERS TO TRACK SM
	QuickMobile predicts the future
	Ready to hire a content DJ?
	Ready to see, taste and experience the best of New Europe? At Conventa you can do it all!
	Real Conference Learning Means an Attendee’s Job Performance Will Improve
	Research puts some science behind scientific meetings
	Risk Management Runs the Gamut for Global Meetings
	ROI, ROO, ROE – What do these terms really mean?
	Room blocks “a thing of the past” as Airbnb bites
	RoomFunding: A Kickstarter Model for Corporate Responsibility
	Safety and reliability fears are Airbnb turnoffs, say planners
	Safety trumps cost for business travel
	Senior Executives prioritize meetings over tech
	SGMP Warns of Housing Scam
	Sharing economy and Generation Y to transform meetings industry
	Show me the Data: Do you know your ROI stakeholders?
	Singapore takes step towards cracking the Pharma Code
	Sli.do and Prezi: Easy Meets Simple for Audience Engagement
	Smart City – Biggest provider of US Convention Center Wi-Fi 0 caught blocking access
	Smartphones: 40 percent of organisers would favour a ban
	Software boss says meetings matter more than emails
	SponsorMyEvent unveils new tools for planners
	Sponsorship: From Uninspiring to Attendee Mattering
	Stats to Justify Your Mobile App
	Steal this: 9 Restaurant hacks for events
	Stick-around strategies: How to keep attendees to the very end
	Stop, thief! 3 ways to prevent theft at your next event
	Strategic visioning takes your event to the next level
	Sub-Saharan Africa: The Business Behind Associations
	Suppliers in Middle East given lowdown on association bidding
	Surrender To What’s Next: Co-Creating an Event Experience
	Survey Points to Growth in Exhibit Space and Sponsorships
	Survey reveals expectation gap between organisers and attendees
	Sustainable meetings require commitment, not cash
	Taking risks with meetings: Is different as good as better?
	Talking Turkey: ICCA's Over-the-Top Tweets
	Technology 'destroying trust in business' - but events can fix it
	Technology trumps meetings design and education
	The 10 worst association website mistakes – and how to fix them
	The 18 Areas a Meeting Policy Must Cover
	The Art of organising successful Q$A sessions and conferences
	The benefits of breaking the rules
	The best events engage all the senses
	The Big List of What Matters to a Revenue Manager
	The CME Exemption Is Dead: Long Live the CME Exemption
	The Critical Role of Color at Meetings
	The Evolution of Hybrid Meetings
	The Internet of Things and its Impact on Tradeshows and Events
	The key ingredient of any meeting: presentations
	The limits of strategic meetings management
	The magic words that will win your meeting negotiation
	The Meeting Planner's Guide to Strategic Social Media Marketing
	The meetings world has never seemed smaller
	The meetings world has never seemed smaller
	The Must-Have for event today is access. Here’s how to get it
	The New Model for Destination Marketing Organizations
	The new way to attract meetings is to focus on knowledge
	The not-so-simple task of measuring meeting results
	The other single best way to kill your organization’s event personalization efforts
	The ROI of meeting design
	The secret to successful meetings?
	The Sense of Security – Risk Management and Meeting Design
	The Traveler’s Tipping Guide
	The Value Of Free Knowledge at Trade Shows
	THREE TIPS FOR BREAKING DOWN THE LANGUAGE BARRIER AT YOUR EVENT
	Time for “Tough Love” in the Meetings Business?
	Time to Take a Survey of Your Survey
	Too many meetings used for one-way communication
	Top 4 AV Trends of the Year
	Trends for 2016: sharing, sustainability and the knowledge economy
	Trends in International Association Meetings from North America 2015 Surbey Report
	U.S. Pharma Spend Transparency Trend Spreads to Europe
	Uber wants to be your event transportation company
	UK associations tighten purse strings as volume falls
	Unions and Meetings: 5 Dos and Don’ts
	Uniting to Move the Meetings Industry Forward
	US hotels, congress centres warned over Wi-Fi blocking
	Using micro-learning for conference innovation
	USING TECHNOLOGY TO BRING MORE VALUE TO DELEGATES
	VAT Basics: Let’s Run the Numbers!
	Virtual to outpace face-to-face in coming year
	Want Federal Government Employees to Attend Your Event? Invite Them to Eat Your Lunch.
	Warning to Trade Show Producers: Be Kind to Your Exhibitors
	What a massive user conference can teach any meeting
	What does it take for femal #eventprofs to reach the top
	What does the internet of things mean for meetings?
	What is the value of DMCs
	What Procurement Thinks: A Planner’s Guide
	What Should an Event App Cost? How About Free?
	What the rise of freelance economy might mean for meetings
	What will events smell like in 2015?
	What will Wi-Fi coalition standards mean for planner choices?
	WHAT'S APP? MAKE SURE YOUR EVENT ISN'T A DATA RISK
	What’s In and What’s Out for events: The List
	What’s New at Sea for Meetings and Incentives
	What’s the true value of certification?
	When competition strikes, it’ time to join forces
	When millennials meet
	When terrorists strike
	Whole Earth Calculator Gets Nod from the White House
	Why “Big Data” is the wrong term
	Why aren’t there more women speakers? You might be surprised
	Why bother with a pre-meeting survey?
	Why Companies Shun the ‘M’ Word
	Why Design, Not Just Planning, Matters for All Meetings
	Why event design matters
	Why experiential is “changing the marketing landscape”
	Why Half Your Attendees Never Ask a Question
	Why meetings management policies are typically not mandated
	Why pharma meal caps must be increased
	Why revenue management is like a box of chocolates
	Why travel managers are ‘consolidating’ meeting programmes
	Why Use an Event App? It Depends Who You Ask
	Why we need to flip our classrooms
	Why you need to catch the audacity bug
	Why your meeting should be like a horror movie – in the best possible way
	Wi-Fi expert's communication call after Marriott fine
	Winter storms and force majeure: A natural match
	Your Conference’s Networking Dollar Value? Priceless
	Your Meeting History is your Credit Score