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| | | | | | | Partner for major events! | | By Joel Fischer and Judy Wickens, UIA Together. Associations are formed for a great variety of reasons: people group together because they can achieve more by associating their efforts than alone, in pursuit of a cause or common purpose, or for mutual benefit. By finding partners, associations further increase their strength and effectiveness. Partnerships may be formal and strict or fleeting and flexible. Their value will become clear in the context of an issue or an operating environment, as an association can not exist independently of its world...
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| | | | | Survey of the month: How social 2.0 are you? Web 2.0. Do you think that social media can improve your association's business? » Yes » No » Maybe
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| | | | | | Best deals/Best offers Glasgow Model. The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) and Glasgow City Marketing are sharing the risk of "poor" attendance numbers... more +++ For download. ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) and AIPC (International Association of Congress Centres) launched a new guide to contracting with convention centres
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| | | | | Results: January survey Climate change. In January we asked: Should international associations reduce travel?
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| | | | | | Toolbox Web 2.0. More and more meeting planners try to blend their real and virtual forums. More Green. How can we organise more sustainable international congresses? More ROI. How to measure the Return on Investment of events? More
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| | | | | “Sibos is moving 8,000 people” |
Panos Tzivanidis is Head of Sibos and Events, SWIFT. You attended the UIA annual assembly when a crucial question about sustainability came up: “Should international associations reduce travel?” What is your point of view? There are many different dimensions to ‘travelling’ for an event and making an international event more sustainable. In my view, international associations can make an effort to reduce travel, but the benefits of bringing members together in a physical event far outweigh...
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| | | | | Important trade shows and annual congresses 2011 | | | AIME | | 15 - 16 Feb 2011 Melbourne | | more |
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| | ![](http://web.inxmail.com/travel-one/res?rdi0q00dnyuxoi) | | GIBTM | | 28 - 30 Mar 2011 Abu Dhabi | | more |
| | ![](http://web.inxmail.com/travel-one/res?rdi0q00dnyuxoi) | NGOs. 5% of the offices of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) listed in the current Yearbook of International Organizations are in Africa, 9% Asia, 3% in Oceania, 28% in the Americas, and 55% in Europe.
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