April 2009 RCM
Prelude
Religious Meetings Are Critical Right Now to the Industry
Have religious meetings ever been more important to the meetings industry than they are right now? Everywhere you turn, there's news that corporate and...
Connections
RCMA Is Vital to Religious Meeting Planners
The Religious Conference Management Association is unique. It is a worldwide organization composed exclusively of religious meeting planners and those...
RCMA Profile: Michelle Penner
Michelle Penner thinks RCMA is a wonderful association with lots to offer its members. But, she says, it's missing one thing: More Canadians! Penner,...
News
The 2008 Contest Winners
The winners in RCMA's 2008 Member-Get-A-Member Contest were announced Friday morning at the RCMA 2009 conference: Mediterranean trip: Harry Schmidt, Christian...
Sun Country Will Provide Service to Branson, Mo.
The Branson Airport announced recently that Sun Country Airlines will provide exclusive nonstop service from Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, to Branson,...
Features
RCMA 2009: Attendees Experience the Warmth of Grand Rapids
In the months leading up to RCMA 2009, attendees fretted about January weather in the host city, Grand Rapids, Mich. But a funny thing happened on the...
University of Expanded Knowledge: The Answers
1. Without an attrition clause in a group's hotel contract, the group is not liable for unused rooms in its room block.False 2. A podium refers to a:Raised...
Friending the Meetings Industry
At their core, social networking tools provide a way for meeting attendees, speakers, and exhibitors to find one another. Rather than roaming receptions and exhibits in hopes of running into good contacts, sales leads, or friends, meeting-goers can search a database of attendee profiles to find people, then contact them using an internal e-mail system. ...
Lessons
Sense and Sensibility: Engage All Senses for F&B Success
When you select menu items consider the five senses: smell, taste, touch, sight, sound....
Fun Food Trends to Spice Up Your Meetings
Fast casual This option offers a slightly higher quality of food, service, and atmosphere than a fast food restaurant; for example, Outback and Applebee's....
Will Technology Make Your Job Obsolete?
Fire Your Event Planner What? That headline can't be right. But a very popular technology blog, called Make Use Of (www.makeuseof.com), argues in a posting...
10 Ways to Take Your Meetings From Good to Great
Our events were good, but we wanted more for our attendees, our guests, and our organization. We wanted to take our events to another level. This demanding...
Sites
The South-Central States Update
CVBs are extra-challenged this year to attract your attention, and they're attempting some novel marketing ideas. On its blog, I Love Springfield, Mo!,...
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