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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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Bananas! Event-Planning Takeaways from “Minions”

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Being leaderless leaves them all depressed, so one of them—Kevin—comes up with a plan. He, along with pals Stuart and Bob, leave the tribe in search of a new evil boss. Clearly, she put some thought into her arrival and the audience she would be addressing—something that every speaker needs to do no matter the event.

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Authors Guild, Booksellers Association Partner to Promote Emerging Writers

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. “Through the Indies Introduce program, now in its fifth year, independent booksellers have identified many unique, new talents. We look forward to watching the program grow in scope and awareness through the events planned with help from the Authors Guild.” “Writers need each other more than ever.

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CMA Wins 6 Industry Awards For Creative Design, Publications

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captures the firm’s breadth of services, ideal location between New York City and Philadelphia as well as creative, in-house depth, featuring all CMA employees in the four-panel center spread, as well as their headshots on the back of the cover. The holiday card, “We’re MAD Excited….”,

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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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Thursday Buzz: Cleveland Prepares for GOP Convention

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Serious event planning is underway for events around the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July. Politics aside, the 2016 Republican National Convention , taking place in Cleveland in July, presents some unique challenges for event planners.

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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

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Right now, take New York City. WHO Issues COVID-19 Coronavirus Event Planning Guide (source: Professional Convention Management Association ). So people say arbitrarily. Well, in two weeks, we’re going to be okay””. It depends on the kinetics of the outbreak.