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Virtual Conference Platforms with Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms are a necessary component for any virtual event. Virtual conference platforms with breakout rooms enhance attendees’ conference experience by keeping them engaged. It can be a virtual conference […]
Collect and Organize Abstract Submissions for Your Next Annual Meeting
There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors in the abstract management pipeline of an annual meeting. I like this metaphor because, to the casual onlooker, everything appears to happen automatically—as […]
Tips for Managing Your Annual Meeting Session Chairs
Session chairs tend to come into the game late. If your annual meeting were a tabletop game, you’d have already laid out the board, sorted and shuffled the cards, and […]
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 […]
A Step-by-Step Guide to a Streamlined Conference Management Process
You crack open your “How to Organize a Conference” manual and glance at the table of contents. One look is enough to get any conference director’s heart racing. Well, it […]