Tag: Meetings and Events
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From Spectator to Participant – the Revolutionary Impact of Hybrid Meetings and Events
Read more: From Spectator to Participant – the Revolutionary Impact of Hybrid Meetings and Eventsby Padraic Gilligan, VP, Industry Relations, MCI In early 2012 Vok Dams Consulting, the consulting arm of the eponymous German based marketing and live communications agency, produced an intriguing white paper on “Hybrid Events, a new trend in live…
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How do you market a destination? Lessons from Memphis
Read more: How do you market a destination? Lessons from Memphisby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Tourism-Review.Com recently ran a piece by David Whitley (http://www.grumpytraveller.com) entitled “A Destination Marketing Dilemma: How do you sell a city like Sheffield?” It’s a well written, mildly strident rant about what he calls…
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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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EIBTM 2011 – Behind the Scenes
Read more: EIBTM 2011 – Behind the ScenesEIBTM 2011 – Behind the Scenes by Padraic Gilligan, VP, Ovation Global DMC and Global VP, Industry relations MCI 2010 v 2011 What a difference! What a difference a year makes! Exactly one year ago most of Europe lay…
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Do you know weird and wonderful people? Key Attributes for DMC success.
Read more: Do you know weird and wonderful people? Key Attributes for DMC success.The late, great Jack Franchek once told me that success as a DMC was all about cultivating relationships with weird people. And Jack being Jack exaggerated that contention to the nth degree: “Unless you’ve got a whole bunch of outcasts…
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A week in Las Vegas – Days 4, 5 and 6 (Site International Conference)
Read more: A week in Las Vegas – Days 4, 5 and 6 (Site International Conference)A Week in Vegas – Days 4, 5 and 6 (Site International Conference) IMEX America drew to a euphoric close on Thursday PM with all participants declaring it a triumph. It was a real “if-you-build-it-they-will-come” phenomenon but not so…
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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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Rooms with a View – private venues in Florence
Read more: Rooms with a View – private venues in FlorenceRooms with a View – private venues in Florence by Padraic Gilligan Italian cities, in general, don’t carry their illustrious past as a burden that prevents them from getting on with 21st century living. The past is integrated into…
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