Tag: Live Events
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It’s not about the money, money, money? Leveraging employee engagement and emotional connections for success
Read more: It’s not about the money, money, money? Leveraging employee engagement and emotional connections for success“It’s not about the money, money, money” Leveraging employee engagement and emotional conections for success by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI In the November issue of Pharmaceutical Market Europe, Nick Eve, CEO of UK based communications agency,…
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“Flash Mobs in Bangkok: is this Thailand?”
Read more: “Flash Mobs in Bangkok: is this Thailand?”“Flash mobs in Bangkok: is this Thailand ?” by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Director, MCI Dublin and VP Ovation Global DMC I thought I was in the middle of a Flash Mob. It was evening rush hour and I had…
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Budapest is knocking on heaven’s door
Read more: Budapest is knocking on heaven’s door“Budapest is knocking on heaven’s door” by Padraic Gilligan When the long haired buskers in the underpass are playing complex counterpoints by Bartok and Bernstein rather than “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” by Bob Dylan then you know you’re in…
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Incentive Houses and DMCs: a marriage made in heaven?
Read more: Incentive Houses and DMCs: a marriage made in heaven?For the past couple of years The Site Foundation has been conducting annual research on topics of current interest to The Meetings and Events Industry. This research released as “The Site Index” has been extraordinarily useful to the industry…
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The all-new Las Vegas
Read more: The all-new Las VegasMy abiding memory of Las Vegas rotates around Moon Civetz’s company, Maverick Aviation Group. It was during the last Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) Invitational in 1995 when the IRF was still the Site Foundation and I was on the…
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Singapore – a curious cat and mouse tale
Read more: Singapore – a curious cat and mouse taleby Padraic Gilligan For many of us in the Meetings Industry the major dread of any trip to Asia is the knowledge that most conversations about our business will be liberally peppered with “MICE”. And we’re not talking small…
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Florence – how two old friends met after 32 years
Read more: Florence – how two old friends met after 32 yearsby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global I visited Florence for the first time courtesy of a small bursary from the Italian Government. I was 16 years old and still at school. 3 weeks there in 1976 brought life…
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Sao Paulo – the heart of the city
Read more: Sao Paulo – the heart of the city“Sao Paulo – the Heart of the City” With due apologies to Ms Austen, it is a “truth universally acknowledged” that a man measures everything in relation to himself. Thus there is no such thing as big and small…
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