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How OpenWater Makes Planning Your Annual Meeting Easier
The annual meeting is coming around again. Whether you’ve recently been handed the reigns or you’ve been running it for years, there’s a good chance you’ve got a wishlist of […]
Use This Tool to Create a Stress-Free Annual General Meeting Agenda
There might be nothing more hair-raising in annual meeting planning than the moment you spot an agenda conflict—on a stack of already-printed agendas. If only you’d seen the error earlier, […]
How to Measure (and Improve) Event Engagement at Your Annual Meeting
Whenever I think about measuring event engagement, John Lennon’s voice runs through my head: He say one and one and one is three Got to be good looking ‘Cause he’s […]
Here’s How to Tell When Your AMS Software Needs an Upgrade
Let’s visualize the perfect association management system (we’d close our eyes, but that would make reading this challenging). Paint a picture of a day in the life of a member, […]
Simplify Your Annual Meeting Planning Process with OpenWater
It’s high time you asked yourself one question about your annual meeting planning process: “Does it spark joy?” At first blush, that’s an unusual question to ask about hard work […]
Planning an Annual Meeting? Here are 5 Benefits of an AMS Integration
An Association Management System (AMS) is the cornerstone of many successful organizations, associations, and nonprofits that need to keep track of a member list or user database. You could say […]
Plan Your Next Annual Meeting with These 4 Event Technology Solutions
The recipe for planning an annual meeting calls for 1 part tradition, 1 part ingenuity, and many, many parts organization. You build your yearly event on the foundation of what’s […]
The Top 7 Benefits of an Online Form Builder for Conference Directors
Many associations and conference planning committees rely on email for virtually everything. You might see emails go out for: Monthly newsletters Calls for papers Event registrations Session proposals Abstract collection […]
Avoid Scheduling Conflicts with OpenWater’s Visual Scheduler Application
Have you ever woken up from one of these scheduling nightmares in the weeks leading up to your annual meeting?: The bulletin board is littered with sticky notes marking conference […]
20 CEOs Visit OpenWater
After months of internal review the evaluation is in: OpenWater is growing at a rate of 3% a month! That translates into an approximate 35% annual growth rate. How OpenWater […]