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3 Tips for Successfully Integrating Multiple Event Tech Products at Your Next Event

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From time to time GovEvents will come across information we feel our members and audience would benefit from. Here's something we wanted to share:

Originally posted on Cvent.com

For those event planners who have started to really embrace technology, we find that there are too many products we are using. There's our mobile app company and the registration company. We have a badging vendor and an online networking vendor. Our heads are spinning because we are managing 10 different technology vendors in addition to all the people we are working with for our event. So, how do we address these and make sure we're integrating all of these products successfully?

Here are 3 tips:

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7 Creative Ideas to Attract New Attendees to Your Event

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Originally posted on BizBash.com

Check out these strategies focused on getting first-timers to your trade show or conference.

Smart planners know they can't rely on the same database of attendees year after year to fill their events. But how do you reach new people? Consider using some of these practical strategies from other trade shows and conferences.

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Mastering the 3 “M”s

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There's a reporter on the phone. Now what?

In today's competitive technology market, it's important to tell a compelling story while remaining on message, especially when the media calls. Joanne Connelly, President and CEO of ConnellyWorks, Inc. - a full service technology marketing communications agency - and former Editor of Federal Computer Week, knows it's critical for companies to be able to respond effectively when the press is calling.

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CIA Live: Spy Agency Holds Public Summit

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Originally posted on NextGov.com by Aliya Sternstein

In the first public conference given by the CIA, the agency's head defended the practice of surveilling cyberspace for threats, but questioned the extent to which potent tracking capabilities should be applied.

"If we are to understand the world we cover and to provide our policymakers with the intelligence that they expect, if not demand, we must immerse ourselves in that frontier and adjust our tradecraft accordingly," CIA Director John Brennan said at the event held Wednesday. "In developing powerful tools to meet this challenge, CIA and the community partners face a question that may be unprecedented in our history: If we possess an extraordinary technical capability and are legally authorized to use it, should we necessarily do so?"

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