Has your event already been postponed due to COVID-19? Or are you developing contingencies in hopes that your summer or fall event can move forward, but know things may be different? As show daily producers, the CustomNEWS team works with associations of many different shapes and sizes to support their communications and marketing efforts. From … Continue reading Preparing for Events, Post-COVID-19
Five Years of Blogging…
After launching our blog five years ago, it continues to grow in scope and has become a great resource on conference communications for the meetings industry. As we plan our posts for 2020, we wanted to look back at our top 10 most-read posts during the past five years: Going Digital With Your Show Daily … Continue reading Five Years of Blogging…
#SocialMedia Fun in your Show Daily!
Attendees love social media, especially when they are asked to do something fun...like write Valentine's Day posts during CSM 2020. We then published them in the show daily, giving their creativity a little extra visibility! There's many ways to tie social media and show dailies together, including: Reminding attendees how to connect with your organization … Continue reading #SocialMedia Fun in your Show Daily!
Case Study: Highlights Issues
How does your organization sum up a few jammed-pack days of education, networking and new opportunities? Publishing a digital highlights issue will help provide key take-aways, share photos and video links and, best of all, show those not attending what they missed. For conference attendees, it may help remind them of a key take-away they … Continue reading Case Study: Highlights Issues
How a Show Daily Saves Limbs . . . and Lives
Show dailies enhance conventions in many ways; but few have had the impact of one published by the organizers of the New Cardiovascular Horizons (NCVH) Annual Conference. First, a bit of history. During NCVH 2013, a CustomNEWS show daily reporter attended a session in which a speaker described the impact that attending NCVH had … Continue reading How a Show Daily Saves Limbs . . . and Lives
Visit CustomNEWS at #ASAE18
Tim Mercer & Jenn Waters look forward to meeting attendees in Chicago during the ASAE Annual Meeting. Together, Tim & Jenn have more than 40 years of experience in the show daily business. Be sure to stop by booth #905 to say hello and learn more about what show dailies offer your attendees, exhibitor and … Continue reading Visit CustomNEWS at #ASAE18
Share Stories, Photos and Videos via a Show Daily
Show dailies are often considered to be something read and discarded once an attendee's finished reading it. But CustomNEWS show dailies have become so much more. At last month's PLA 2018 conference in Philadelphia, PLA Daily News had a few different components: Printed newspaper actively distributed to attendees daily as they entered the convention center. … Continue reading Share Stories, Photos and Videos via a Show Daily
Recommended Reading: Keep Printing
One common theme in CustomNEWS' posts is the important role that print materials still play at conferences and trade shows. Attendees do use mobile apps, but if they forget the room number for a session, or want to find a booth on the show floor - printed materials are what they seek. Here's two great … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Keep Printing
Case Study: Digital Preview Issue
Seeking a new way to share conference details with members, confirmed registrants and prospective attendees? Check out the digital preview issue that CustomNEWS published last month for the American Association of Anatomists: Email Preview Issue Distributed via email and AAA's social media channels, the publication includes links to registration pages, reminders about upcoming conference events … Continue reading Case Study: Digital Preview Issue