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Are Your Virtual Event Revenues Subject to Taxation?
It’s not a clear-cut issue and different attorneys have different takes on the matter. Here’s what to keep in mind.
Webinar: How to Create a Virtual World with Mediasite Events
Travel is on hold. Your event doesn’t have to be. In-person events might be a thing of the past for now, but with the right tools and strategy you can still create incredibly engaging and inspiring virtual experiences for your attendees.
Reskilling and Rethinking to Ride Out ‘Titanic Shifts’
As we make our way out of COVID-19, the business events industry must prepare with new skills and by understanding and embracing new business models.
We’re in This Together: ‘Sharing Risk in Highly Uncertain Times’
Panelists at a recent PCMA webinar agreed that all stakeholders — planners and suppliers — have to work together during this uncertain time and get innovative with business models. Here’s how a cartoon set the tone.
The Joint Meetings Industry Council Releases its Global Manifesto
The document provides an industry rationale for the use of business events as primary agents for post-pandemic economic recovery and renewal.
‘Restarting Events in a COVID-19 World’
Three events industry leaders on the differences and similarities between face-to-face and digital events.
Webinar: Communication Strategies in Uncertain Times
We live in a time of increased risks that make it critical for business event organizers to have a strong, cohesive crisis communications plan. If a crisis hits that impacts your event, you should be ready to communicate to participants, internal and external stakeholders, as well as the media with tailored, targeted messages. In this webinar, Michael Wigent, Regional Operations Manager – Americas, Cisco will share how to deliver the right messages with the proper tone and communication channel when a crisis occurs.
Webinar: Is Your Event Covered in a Crisis Situation?
Event organizers should examine their organization’s contracts concerning events in light of cancellations caused by unforeseen circumstances, like COVID-19. Attorney Barbara Dunn will walk through what to look for and answer your burning questions about evaluating what’s included in your contracts and whether your standard language will protect the interests of your organization.
Does Playing the National Anthem at an Event Require Permission?
The answer to that question ‘can be complicated.’ But a response on PCMA’s Catalyst forum sheds light on the rights that need to be considered.
Meetings Market Survey: Starting From a Good Place
Going by the responses to Convene’s 2020 Meetings Market Survey, the business events industry is on solid footing — which should help it better withstand the negative impacts of COVID-19.
The Rise of the Experience Economy
It has been 20 years since The Experience Economy, a seminal business book that identified the emerging consumer demand for experiences over things, was first published. How has that trend shaped our world — and event design — over the last two decades? Who better to ask than the book’s coauthors.
A To-Do List for Planet Earth’s Planners
Why event organizers are embracing the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals — and how meetings are a prime medium to accelerate their success.