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How will COVID-19 impact event insurance?

Association Success

Communicable diseases as part of event contracts and cancellation insurance policies became a major issue around the time of the H5N1 bird flu in 2006 and, later, ebola in2014-16. Future event cancellation coverage will cost more based on what’s happening now.”. It’s better to be smart than cheap.”.

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Tell Your People

Jamie Notter

I remember meeting with one of the senior regional managers who made a point about internal communication that I have since quoted liberally. A small secret then becomes a future chasm in communication. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12).

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The Safest Time in Human History

Virtual

In 2006, a coup d’etat in Thailand forced a last-minute change of winter meeting venue to Montreal, where nighttime temps plunged to a frigid 30 degrees F. But don’t tell our event planning team how safe the world is. below zero. Or in some cases, to eliminate meetings altogether.

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Making Silos Work

Jamie Notter

As communication channels become more social and blended to assist both members and our business partners to target their messages, this specificity bumps ways to consider sharing the income beyond one event. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12).

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Start by Looking Inside

Jamie Notter

We need to pay more attention inside, to the people, to the relationships, to the communication. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (9). May 2006 (9). April 2006 (8). March 2006 (9).

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Discipline

Jamie Notter

Decentralize without clearly communicated high standards for results is probably a waste of time! December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (9). May 2006 (9). April 2006 (8). March 2006 (9).

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The Long Road to Standards Adoption

Virtual

With its much-anticipated announcement this week, Apple became the latest and the last of the leading smartphone vendors to adopt Near Field Communication or NFC technology. This is despite the fact that NFC is already in hundreds of millions of mobile phones worldwide and first appeared in a Nokia “feature phone” in 2006.