Category: Viewpoints
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1st Pan-Industry Survey of Incentive Travel
Read more: 1st Pan-Industry Survey of Incentive Travelby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE Incentive Travel Industry Index 2018 Last week Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE), Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) and Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) released their eponymous joint…
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Why join meetings & events associations?
Read more: Why join meetings & events associations?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua and Chief Marketing Officer, SITE My experience with associations Industry associations have played a hugely positive role over the almost 3 decades of my career in the business events industry. Through my participation…
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Can Independent Hotels prosper in the Incentive marketplace?
Read more: Can Independent Hotels prosper in the Incentive marketplace?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE Global Chains v Independent Hotels – the debate continues This week I found my mind exercised, once again, by the on-going debate around the merits and demerits of…
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On Measuring the Value of Incentive Travel
Read more: On Measuring the Value of Incentive Travelby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The value of Incentive Travel? Meetings & Incentive Industry Professionals will find lots to love in the Events Industry Council’s (EIC) recently released Economic Significance of Meetings to the US Economy. Just consider…
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How attending a conference doubles your chance of promotion
Read more: How attending a conference doubles your chance of promotionby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Harvard Research on Impact of a Conference I’ve been a subscriber to Harvard Business Review for many years now. It’s a great way to keep in touch with all the latest theories in…
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Tips for Better Networking – Questions to keep the Chat Going
Read more: Tips for Better Networking – Questions to keep the Chat Goingby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua As a community, I think it’s fair to say that meetings and incentives professionals are better than average at networking. By and large we’re a jolly lot, particularly those of us in a…
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What would a truly human-centric meeting look like?
Read more: What would a truly human-centric meeting look like?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In a typical thought provoking article on MeetingNet, Sue Pelletier kicks off 2018 with a challenge to the Business Events industry: “What would a truly human-centric meeting look, smell, sound, taste, and feel like?…
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Albums of the Year 2017 and a short essay on the delights of vinyl
Read more: Albums of the Year 2017 and a short essay on the delights of vinylby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Director, SoolNua The Delights of Vinyl Two years ago I received a turntable for my birthday. It took me back 30 years as I re-indulged in the almost forgotten carnal delights of handling long playing…
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In Memoriam: Paul Flackett & Jane Schuldt, giants of the incentive industry
Read more: In Memoriam: Paul Flackett & Jane Schuldt, giants of the incentive industryby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In his poetic masterpiece The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot writes “April is the cruellest month …”. For the incentive industry and SITE, in particular, we might re-phrase Eliot’s words and say “2017 was…
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Social Media – the unanswered questions for #eventprofs
Read more: Social Media – the unanswered questions for #eventprofsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua My SoolNua colleague @AoifeMcCrum and I co-presented at ibtmWorld in Barcelona this week on the “hardy annual” topic of Social Media. We were exceedingly grateful to the wonderful crowd that showed up at…
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