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New Ways to Help Understand Extreme Heat Risks
Recent developments and tools that can help make it easier for meeting organizers to calculate and communicate the risks of extreme heat to meeting attendees.
Using the Pull Method — and Post-its — to Combat Work Overload
Here’s how a team of IT professionals used a spare office wall and sticky notes to prevent individual team members from getting overloaded — and to move projects along or kill them off. Also: how you could do the same.
Are You Delivering What the Next-Gen Attendee Wants?
A new Freeman trends report measures the gaps between the way organizers design their event programs and the preferences of a new generation of event attendees — and what the most innovative event organizers do differently.
Bingo: How a Lead Generation Conference Nailed Interactivity
At LeadsCon Connect, organizers devised a gamified way to deliver on its promise of connecting attendees and exhibitors.
Do Stricter Return-to-Office Mandates Make Sense?
Amazon’s recent announcement that employees will be required to work from the office five days a week in 2025 sparked renewed — and heated — debate about the hybrid workplace. What has changed about hybrid work policies over the past year for event organizers?
Shared Meals and Interesting Topics — 2 Ways to Better Networking
More ideas about how to create more intentional networking at events came our way than we were able to fit in our upcoming September/October print issue on that topic. So we’ll be sharing contributions from event planners in our newsletters. Here’s the first.
Looking Back on a Remarkable, 42-Year Career in Tourism
Kitty Ratcliffe said she ‘bluffed’ her way into her first tourism job — but let the facts speak for themselves: In her more than four decades successfully leading DMOs, including her last 18-year stint — before retiring last month — as president of the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission, she earned numerous awards and honors.
How to Make Networking Feel Less Intimidating
Attendees rank networking as a top priority for event participation. But many people experience social anxiety that prevents them from participating to the fullest. These experiential networking ideas lessen the fear of getting together.
Engaging Event Participants in the Maker Movement
How maker spaces and sessions can help event participants learn about the history and culture of a people — or just deeply resonate with their own professional culture.
In the Age of AI, Soft Skills Remain ‘Critically Important’
The focus on learning how to use AI in the workplace shouldn’t come at the expense of cultivating soft skills — it’s humans who inhabit the workplace, after all.
5 Ways to Make Event New-Timers Feel Like They Belong
New attendees have often had years of remote or hybrid work and the option of virtual events — in-person interactions may bring on anxiety. Here’s how to help put them at ease and provide them with such a positive experience that they’ll return for your next event.
Stress at Work: ‘Understand When Is Your Breaking Point’
Some common-sense advice for event professionals — who continue to land on most-stressful jobs lists.