Tips & Tools

Tips & Tools

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5 Dietary Restrictions Meeting Planners Need to Know About

Meeting planners need to educate themselves in the differences between dietary restrictions. Some are preferences, others religious beliefs and the most critical are full-blown disorders.
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Travel Safety Tips for Your Attendees

An important aspect of duty of care is to share travel safety tips with your attendees.
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5 Job-Hunting Tips for Experienced Meeting Planners

The experts at meetingjobs.com suggest that experienced meeting planners trade in terms like "seasoned professional," "wealth of experience" for specifics on related experience.

Wow ‘Em With a Little Help From US Government Tweets

Who knew the US government had so much insight to offer meeting and incentive planners.
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3 Event Techniques, Jimmy Kimmel Style

When a huge snow storm hit the East Coast, Kimmel cooked up a "I Served a Snowball in Bed” challenge, having viewers videotape themselves bringing a snowball (or more) to their family member while asleep.
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3 Questions to Ask Your App Provider

Ask your app provider what new mobile features are being used to increase engagement.
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4 Methods of Experiential Learning that Enhance Meetings

Take away the classroom setup and create an open lab-like space for attendees to interact and engage with different tools.
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5 Things Too Often Excluded from RFPs

If your meeting has any kind of flexibility in dates, it’s essential to include a list of dates in order of preference in your RFP.

Turn Your Event Into a Comic Book With These 5 Ideas

Patty Jenkins just became the highest grossing female director in Hollywood history for “Wonder Woman.” And you can jump on the bandwagon.
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Keep Your Event “Woke” with These 3 Diversity Tips

Nothing can provide more comfort to minority attendees than having event staff members who are the embodiment of the woke message you’d like to convey.
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How to Integrate Tinder into Your Event

Even Tinder itself is becoming more group oriented after launching Tinder Social last year.
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Hilton Chicago Celebrates 90th Year with Meeting Deal

Simply walking the property’s grounds, featuring the original 1927 Czechoslovakian crystal chandeliers and Fresco-style oil paintings, takes attendees back to a bygone era.

5 Tips for Meeting Planners By Meeting Planners

Every month, ConventionPlanit.com holds an incentive-driven contest for meeting planners that results in valid tips for other planners.
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Azamara Club Cruises Gives Planners Free Nights

The longer the itinerary, the more complimentary nights a meeting planner can receive.