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Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau makes key convention sales & services staff appointments

Event Industry News

Outlook for increased group meetings leads to strategic additions The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) has named Taylor Fry and Diego Vervloet to join the organization’s convention sales and services department, respectively.

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Getting involved: 4 strategies to boost volunteer engagement

Ungated

The seasonal nature of communities in warm weather states like Florida narrows the window to recruit volunteers, but robust volunteer programs are still possible. Similarly, the Sterling Condominium in Miami Beach manages to consistently generate considerable volunteer engagement despite also having its fair share of seasonal residents.

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What do the mega gifts of 2024 say about giving? 

Candid

Other mega gifts to higher education included $200 million from an anonymous donor to Catawba College, $150 million from Byron Trott toward recruiting rural students, and a bequest of at least $150 million from Glenn and Barbara Britt to Dartmouth College.

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IBTM World launches visitor registration

Event Industry News

Also in attendance will be the convention bureaus of Spain, Ireland, Brussels, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Canada, Malaysia, Jordan, Bahrain, Canada, Miami, Las Vegas and Boston, as well as Meliá Hotels and Barceló Hotels. and CWT Meetings & Events.

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Can you really motivate association staff?

SCD Group

Yesterday’s paper carried two related stories: Miami Dolphins fire head coach “for failure to motivate players.” “But We can recruit and hire. We intuitively know this (and call it “high employee engagement”), yet since we continue to manage with a machine mindset, we are rarely able to achieve it. We can inspire. What do you think?

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What business is your association in?

SCD Group

opened his column on Jeff Bezos purchase of the Miami Herald writing: “. And, suggested they recruit members by saying “if you are passionate about our industry, join our cause.”. association leaders SCD Group Miami Herald Simon Sinek association executives BlackBerry Leonard Pitts Jr. Why do associations exist?

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Let’s Give! The Big List of National, Local and Collegiate Online Giving Days (2016 Edition)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Giving Days can be great ways of harnessing the immediacy and connectedness of social networks to raise funds, recruit new supporters, and raise awareness of your mission. NOV – Give Miami Day. Reach out to a fellow nonprofit and ask them to share their experience. They are not to be entered into lightly.