April 2010 AM
Cover Story
How the American Volleyball Coaches Association Made its Convention a Must-attend Event
Kathy DeBoer calls it the big-tent strategy. It's the broad principle that has helped her association, the American Volleyball Coaches Association, experience a 56 percent spike in attendance in the past three years, including a jump of nearly 20 percent in 2009...
Features
What Associations Need to Know about SMM
Karl Kirsch, CAE, had heard about strategic meetings management or SMM for years at industry meetings, but he wasn't completely sure what it entailed...
Checking In With Editor Larry Keltto
Five Lessons from Two Thriving Meetings
This issue features two associations the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the American Volleyball Coaches Association that have grown their...
Keynotes
HelmsBriscoe Goes After the Association Market
Well known in the corporate world, site-selection company HelmsBriscoe is about to become a player in the association world as well. Founder and CEO ROGER...
Medical Association Sees Nearly 50 Percent Spike in Attendance
At a time when many associations are seeing participation levels plummet, ADAA’s attendance jumped 43 percent to 933 at the association’s 2010 conference in Baltimore....
Fort Worth Wows Attendees at RCMA 2010
More than 1,100 attend the annual conference...
Breakouts
Tool Time: Here Comes Visual Search, and More
Hard to believe that 2010 is in full swing. (Wasn't it just the holidays?) Lots on the plate for this column: cool search ideas, a few industry tech tidbits (would those be techbits?), and a bit of social media, too...
Commentary: Are Regional Meetings in Your Association's Future?
One of the more interesting options for creating more affordable, sustainable conferences is to alternate a single, big, annual gathering with regional meetings in the off years. As with many of the industry's emerging solutions, there are potential land mines that come with the benefits...
9 Must-Have Apps for Meeting Pros
As long as you're dragging that smart phone everywhere you go, you may as well put it to work. We've rounded up nine must-have apps for meeting professionals (and a few more just for fun). All are built for the iPhone, but BlackBerry users take heart: some comparable applications are out there. ...
Voices
What Do You Look for on Site Inspection Visits?
Claudia Gorski Director of Meetings, American Meteorological Society, Boston We look for the traffic flow of the hotel/convention center. Since so many...
The Word: Chicken
Chicken is one of the least expensive and healthiest meats to serve your meeting attendees, but the bird is a victim of its own success...
Sites
Bright Lights, Big Meetings
The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles and the JW Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles opened in February at L.A. LIVE, the $2.5 billion, 4-million-square-foot sports and...
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