Happy Tuesday everyone! We hope you had a great bank holiday weekend.

As always we are helping ease you back into the (shorter) working week with a round-up of last week’s main event industry news, including any interesting stories and insights that can help you improve yourself, your company, or your events.

Enjoy!

EVENT NEWS

Barbican the venue of choice for UK’s largest fundraising conference [Event Industry News]

After searching for the right venue, Barbican has been chosen to be the home for The Institute of Fundraising Conference. Having outgrown previous venues, the Barbican provides the conference with room to increase the number of attendees, and is a fitting location due to the Barbican’s not-for-profit nature. If you regularly attend this conference, it’s safe to say you will be in good hands at this venue.

8 Inspiring Tips for Successful Networking [Conference News]

Our very own Marino Fresch shares his experience to help you get more out of the networking experience, even if you’re not a natural extrovert.

MARKETING

‘Cannibalism of Snapchat’: Agencies react to Instagram’s new live Events channel [Digiday]

Instagram has once again ‘cannibalised’ another feature from Snapchat, which comes in the form of Instagram’s new live Events channel. The channel is to be personalised for each user and feature videos from events — concerts, festivals and sporting matches, for example — depending on what types of accounts the user follows.

Twitter Offers New Filter, Cracks Down on Abuse [Entrepreneur]

Twitter has announced a new filter which helps people handle threats, harassment and bots on the platform. This is not a new feature, but has only been available for verified accounts. This has finally been released for all users after years of criticisms of how the platform handles abuse.

Google will soon start punishing mobile sites that show hard-to-dismiss popups [Tech Crunch]

If you’ve been including a popup that is difficult for people to dismiss, you may want to change it, as Google will soon be punishing sites that include these types of popups.

PRODUCTIVITY

Take These Steps to Get Better Feedback from Your Workshop Attendees [Eventbrite UK]

If you run workshops and are looking for ways to get better feedback from your attendees, Fiona Whitehead from General Assembly shares her tips and tricks to increase the feedback response rate of your attendees and to receive even better feedback ratings.

5 Ways to Control Your Email Addiction (Infographic) [Hubspot]

Can’t stop reading your emails? You are not alone! 50% of us check our emails from our beds when we should be sleeping. If you’re looking for ways to kick the habit, look no further than Hubspot’s 5 ways to control your email addiction.

TECHNOLOGY

These Temporary Tattoos Turn Your Skin Into a Touchpad [Inc]

The trend for wearables to sync with your many devices is ever increasing; we have watches that sync to your phone; fitness straps that keep track of your exercise, and here we have a temporary tattoo that can turn your skin into a touchpad. This technology is still in development, but this could be an interesting piece of wearable technology, and we are excited to see how this can be used.

IN OTHER NEWS…

Notting Hill Carnival through the years [Evening Standard]

With another successful Notting Hill Carnival last weekend, the Evening Standard has shared a number of images from the carnival throughout the years! Enjoy!