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Knowledge and discovery are, at their most fundamental level, social pursuits. Researchers can, and have, produced incredible research from within the reaches of their solitude, in their rooms and offices. However, even this research has relied upon other ways albeit in indirect ways. This researcher, like most other peers, is likely to have attended multiple scholarly events prior to embarking on his own research endeavor. Having networked with countless researchers, listened to them share their inputs on the large stages, this research finds a resolve to pursue of their own. Continue reading

Let’s own up to it. Half of us haven’t the slightest inking as to what B2B is. Or what a B2B event is for matter. And let alone an even chunkier word ‘B2B event marketing.’ Don’t worry though, from this moment onward, you’re going into society as someone with an understanding of what a B2B event is and how this connects to marketing. Because we’re about to tell you. Buckle up and read on.

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Cloud-based event management platforms like ConfTool are helping numerous event organizers from around the world run their events. Professionals planning academic conferences, in particular, have ratified ConfTool’s stature as a trusted tool in the scholarly community.  It handles core event management functions like abstract submissions, peer review workflows and basic registration for academic and scientific events skillfully. At least it has for a long time.

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An outstanding, even potentially groundbreaking research paper, sometimes simply never materializes. Perhaps the author may never get down to writing it and the paper remains an idea. Or even worse, a promising paper, written and pruned, simply never reaches the right platform. There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes in circumstances such as this. It is also one that conference organizers, just as much as promising authors, know all too well. You’ve spent weeks if not months planning a research conference. Building something you believe in. You’ve dedicated your time and effort into perfecting it. However, once the Call For Papers is ready to go out, you’re confronted with a bitter realization: that submitters didn’t nearly believe in your research conference as much as you did.

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