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Online Event Registration: 7 Tools for a Better Attendee Experience

In a previous rsvpBOOK “Bits from the BOOK” Blog, (Feeling Your Pain – Five Pain Points for Event Professionals), I talked about one serious pain point for event professionals is being stuck in old event registration and management habits.  Everything from paper registrations, voluminous binders with spreadsheets tracking attendance and event financials, long on-site check-in […]

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Addressing An Epidemic – Helping with Zika Virus Training for Nurses

Outbreak – January 2016 It wasn’t that long ago – January 2016 to be exact – that the outbreak of a mosquito-borne virus adversely affecting pregnant women was making its way into the news headlines worldwide.  The Zika virus spread across South America, Central American and the Caribbean and eventually arrived in the southern United […]

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Feeling Your Pain – Five Pain Points of Event Professionals

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.  Or so the phrase goes in Charles Dickens’ book, A Tale of Two Cities.  That’s how I often felt in my days as the event director for a small non-profit when the thrill of a great event would send me soaring but often […]

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5 Plus Ideas to Have Some Hashtags with Your Event

Many years ago when my day job was the event manager at a national non-profit, I first encountered the prefix “#” before a word and thought it was a typo.  OK, I am from a different generation which did not grow up with the vast array of social media options which are so popular today.  […]

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Arizona Measles Outbreak Confirms Need for Training Management

  An outbreak of measles that started at the Eloy Detention Center has now grown to 11 confirmed  cases. Health officials have identified 14 locations in Pinal and Maricopa county where infected  workers may have exposed other people, including stores, restaurants and a tribal casino. Measles is a highly contagious viral illness and symptoms can appear up […]

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