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Friday Buzz: How McDonald’s Scored Big With Its Corporate Event

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That inventiveness extends to its event planning. Every two years, the company puts on a Worldwide Convention in Orange County, California, and it tried a new approach to promote the event this year: Rather than simply launching an event site on its intranet, it created a content-heavy Facebook-style news feed.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.25.22

Reid All About it

Because I used 3 pounds of boneless pork shoulder (aka Boston butt), I doubled the marinade/sauce ingredients—and added a hefty amount of spicy sambal oelek to the mix. Before embarking on your hybrid event planning journey, you need to ask yourself a few key questions: What is the goal of your event? 1 CMP credit.

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Social Media Roundup: Avoid These Marketing Mishaps

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Here are a few non-tech event trends to expect in 2014. And when you’re looking to improve your event planning or marketing—as well as identify what not to do—where better to look than at some of 2013’s biggest marketing mishaps? Plus: Roll out the red carpet! There’s a something important to be learned from every oops.

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3 Tech-Savvy Tips for Nonprofit Virtual Fundraising Events

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From posting event news to sharing information regarding your cause, a mobile event app easily facilitates this transfer of information. . There are also a few trendier event technologies that are currently taking the event planning world by storm. adding a new dimension to attendees’ digital event experience.

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Event Management: Do Your Policies Match Your Reality?

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While contracts are a key part of the event-planning process, there’s a disconnect between meeting planners and leadership on who exactly signs those documents. While just 6 percent of leaders said meeting planners are allowed to sign contracts related to events, 23 percent of planners said they actually do. So, who signs?

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Women’s Hockey Association Launches Dream Gap Tour

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Starting next month, PWHPA will head to Toronto, Chicago, and New Hampshire where 80 of its players to compete against one another in four-team tournaments, with more potential events planned in other hockey hot spots such as Buffalo, New York, and Southern California.