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Social Media Roundup: Starting an Event Planning Company? Read This First

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Before taking your event planning solo, keep in mind the business factors that come with the territory. If you’ve been doing this event-planning thing for a while, you might be wondering to yourself what it’s like to strike out on your own. Starting Your Own Event Company via @hgivner [link] #eventprofs #mpi.

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How To Find Keynote Speakers

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These speakers, with their insights and expertise, can set the tone and elevate the entire event. Securing the right keynote speaker requires a blend of strategic planning, careful negotiation, and effective communication. Local or regional speakers may be on the lower end of this range.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 4.9.21

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Event Farm is hosting a series of virtual events on pandemic compliance and safety at in-person events. The first session addressed six event safety factors to consider from the public health and event planning perspectives. Virtual Events Institute ). Host: New York Society of Association Executives.

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Wednesday Buzz: Facebook Ups Its Events Game

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“You can think about it like a weekend or weekly digest of cool stuff that you can do in your city,” Facebook Events Product Manager Aditya Koolwai explained to TechCrunch. Following the trending topics controversy , Facebook will likely be careful in its selection of events. Are we seeing the democratization of event planning?

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Association Brain Food: 3.17.23

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Hear tips and tricks for teambuilding and general meeting design. Hear tips for bridging the gap between DEI goals and action, including how to add DEI into vendor contracts, the value of diversity certifications in creating a culture of inclusion, and key KPIs for measuring DEI progress. 1 CMP credit. . 1 CMP credit. 1 CAE credit.

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Wednesday Buzz: The Productive Power of Checklists

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The stress of event planning could be relieved by something as basic as a checklist. Plus: a new book from a couple of our favorite social media experts. Event planning is a complicated process that can easily get out of hand, with deadlines, projects, follow-ups, and countless other minutiae overwhelming your team.

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Association Brain Food: 6.2.23

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(Lauren Geall, Stylist ) Good eats Skip down to the list of free educational events if you prefer takeout. He’s the guy behind the New York Times recipe section, so you can consider him a reliable culinary source. If you like crab cakes, you’ll like (or maybe love, like me) Sam Sifton’s fish cakes. CAE credit. 1 CAE credit.