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Five Qualities of an Exceptional Event Project Manager

Velvet Chainsaw

In the fast-paced world of event planning, strong project management from your key vendors is essential for success. Before joining VCC, I spent more than 20 years leading some of the best technical and event project managers in the large/complex housing and registration space.

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Association Brain Food: 2.2.24

Reid All About it

Host: KiKi L’Italien, Vice President, Marketing and Community Engagement, Big Red M Guest: Liz Peuster, CAE, Director Of Communications & Public Relations, South Carolina Association of CPAs *All events are online at Eastern Standard Time unless otherwise noted. You have a full-time job, and doing systems projects isn’t it.

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Association Brain Food: 9.29.23

Reid All About it

They describe the seven steps of starting a successful association mentoring program from pre-evaluation and research to planning, design, recruitment, matching, training, support, and evaluation. That explains the interest in communities like Non-Dues-A-Palooza and Professionals for Association Revenue. Event design.

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Event-Planning Reminders From “Christmas Vacation”

Associations Now

That’s why it’s important to plan for the unexpected and have crisis communication or evacuation plans on hand. During the movie, it’s revealed that his current project is a “non-nutritive cereal varnish” that seals and coats pieces so milk can’t penetrate them. Industry conferences matter. Now it’s your turn.

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Association Brain Food: 6.16.23

Reid All About it

Event planning. Is your event planning to-do list still up to snuff? Whether you’re new to the business or have been planning events forever, take a look at the post-pandemic event checklist put together by Impexium. We develop expertise from researching, thinking and writing. Don’t give that up!

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.26.21

Reid All About it

Sigh, another self-improvement project—almost complete. Fri 2/26 at 10 a.m.* – The Nonprofit Communications Engine (NYSAE Engagement Lounge). The Nonprofit Communications Engine is a framework designed to help nonprofit leaders and associations build, refine, and optimize their organization’s ability to communicate effectively.

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How to plan for an uncertain 2021 association conference format

Association Success

Enhance your projections with sponsorship and registration fees and expense estimates. Step 3: Concurrent planning. If the in-person, virtual or hybrid choice is not clear, begin planning for multiple formats concurrently. Communication.