Category: Meeting Matters
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Audience Engagement – at the Heart of Meetings
Read more: Audience Engagement – at the Heart of Meetingsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Way back in the 80s, when I did post graduate studies in education, all the talk was about “child centred education”, ie, tailoring the lesson to the needs of the child, building the lesson…
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How do event and meetings profs select destinations? Part 2
Read more: How do event and meetings profs select destinations? Part 2by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Director, SoolNua Last week’s post focused on how buyers select destinations and presented three of the considerations or criteria generally used for destination selection by meetings and events professionals – Access, Infrastructure and Value. Here, in no…
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How do event and meeting profs select destinations? Part 1
Read more: How do event and meeting profs select destinations? Part 1by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua How to select destinations for a meeting, incentive travel experience, conference or event can sometimes be a random, even quixotic activity. However, usually it’s anything but. The selection process is actually quite systematic, even scientific.…
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Building a compelling DMC brand: how the DMC Network re-branded
Read more: Building a compelling DMC brand: how the DMC Network re-brandedby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua. What is a logo? Since the late 80s @Supergreybeard and I have been involved in a number of commercial activities that required an identity, ie, a trading name, logo, collateral material and, once the internet came…
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10 ways to book a meeting on-line
Read more: 10 ways to book a meeting on-lineby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In his weekly Meetings Innovation Report, Skift reporter Greg Oates provides a link to a compelling article by Charles de Gaspe Beaubien of Groupsize Solutions on “Generation C and Small Meetings”. While technology has…
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Ireland – building its brand in Food Tourism
Read more: Ireland – building its brand in Food Tourismby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Way back in 1980, when he wrote “Nobody Told Me” John Lennon pithily summed up what it’s like living in this brave new world: Nobody told me there’d be days like these strange…
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Connect16 Dublin – why you must be there
Read more: Connect16 Dublin – why you must be thereby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Who are we? Are we travel and tourism professionals who specialise in meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE)? Or meeting and event professionals helping companies and associations communicate and connect? Or maybe corporate…
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Start with Why – A new approach to meetings
Read more: Start with Why – A new approach to meetingsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Sinek replaces Peters and Collins These days Simon Sinek seems to have taken on the mantle previously worn by Tom Peters and Jim Collins as the most quoted author at business conferences. Pursuing…
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10 ways to Nail your Sale
Read more: 10 ways to Nail your Saleby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The Association of Irish Professional Conference Organisers (AIPCO) 4th annual conference was held at the beautiful Lyrath Estate, Kilkenny gathering almost 200 MICE professionals around the theme “How to nail your sale”. For…
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What Makes a Successful Congress Destination?
Read more: What Makes a Successful Congress Destination?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Congress Destinations In the late 80s when the iron curtain opened to reveal what used to be called Eastern Europe, Prague and Budapest were the first actors to take to the stage and assume protagonist roles in…
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