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How Language Can Create Different Perceptions Among Attendees

Did you ever stop to think about how different languages create different perceptions or cultural biases at meetings?
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Getting Keen on Curbing Event Food Waste

There is perhaps no single thing planners can do to make their events more sustainable and less wasteful than to curb food waste. Read how one successful planner is doing just that.
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How Living a Prehistoric Life Can Shape Your World View

“If we’re talking about housing development, they probably should know how to swing a hammer and pound a nail.”
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Meetings Matter Because We Matter to Each Other

During the holiday season, we are reminded—and invited—to recognize the value and significance of family, friends and coworkers.
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How Laughter, Mindfulness & Edutainment Engage Attendees

Here's how meeting planners can use laughter, mindfulness and edutainment to build more attendee loyalty and interaction at events.
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3 Technical Tools to Put in Your Meeting Design Toolbox

The microphone is designed to enhance audience engagement because it can be tossed from participant to participant, creating more interactions.
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Increasing Audience Interaction with Unconventional Event Formats

Increasing audience interaction is key when planning for Millennials, whose epic appetite for engaging experiences can keep planners up at night.

How to Obtain Accurate Attendee Data

Attendees anticipate pre-event data seeking by event organizers, but may not provide accurate information out of fear of discrimination.
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The Art of Zero Gravity Events

While there are tons of untried ideas out there, people too often simply reshuffle ideas that have already been proven to be 100 percent reliable in order to avoid failure.

Here’s to a Year of Feeling Good!

“It’s a new dawn; It’s a new day; It’s a new life…” And we’re feeling good. Check out Prevue Magazine's first issue of 2018.
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How to Manipulate Time to Your Advantage

“Over the long run we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there.”
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Are Cryptocurrencies the Future for Event Payments?

In recent years, hundreds of cryptocurrency startups have created their own digital coins looking to get a piece of the virtual finance pie, but will it realistically affect the meetings market anytime soon?
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Mobile Matchmaking Sparks Powerful Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

Peer-to-peer learning isn't solely reserved for Millennials. See how one tech company is using mobile matchmaking to facilitate powerful exchanges among like-minded attendees.

Flipping the Script on Disruption in Meetings

When American film director John Waters took the stage last year at the Rhode Island School of Design to give what should have been the usual “go get ‘em” commencement speech, the crowd grew quiet with the wrong kind of anticipation.