August 1, 2005 CMI
Cover Story
Micro-MANAGEMENT
DON'T TALK TO LYNN RIDZON ABOUT ROI. She's too busy saving her company millions of dollars to think about it. Ridzon's meeting department at the Bristol-Myers...
Upfront
The Dollars Are in the Details
SOMETIMES, THE MEETING INDUSTRY MEDIA, in its search for something new to report, gets caught up in promoting whatever it's fed even if it has little...
News & Info
MPI, Caffeinated: Summer Meeting Creates a Buzz
TWO DYNAMIC WOMEN set the stage and tone for the high-energy Meeting Professionals International's World Education Congress July 10-12 at the Miami Beach...
And the Winners Are
Meeting Professionals International bestowed its annual awards at the World Education Conference in July. INTERNATIONAL PLANNER OF THE YEAR: Glen Reigheart,...
.com, .gov, .edu now .travel
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the organization responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system, this spring...
Get Ready for APEX OfficeReady
IMAGINE MORE THAN 200 event management and business templates available at the click of your mouse everything from meeting checklists and event specification...
Firms Missing the Boat on Meetings Management, Study Says
A NEW STUDY from American Express, undertaken by Chicago-headquartered management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, shows that companies can save as much...
Letters
your letters
Thanks, But No Thanks To the Editor, I applaud your Up Front column on unethical offers for meeting planners (June CMI). I too have noticed an alarming...
Meetings
Take 5
BRUCE HARRIS, CMP PRESIDENT, CONFERON GLOBAL SERVICES WHAT'S SPINNING ON YOUR CD PLAYER? The soundtrack from West Side Story. IF YOU COULD BE A SUPERHERO,...
IACVB to DMAI: It's Official
IT'S NO SECRET that the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus has been going through an identity crisis. So, after a review of its...
The CVB Facts
Convention bureaus have one basic problem: Many corporate planners aren't sure what they do. Here are some common misconceptions followed by the facts...
give me a w
Executives at Wal-Mart kick off each weekend with a Saturday morning meeting in the auditorium of the company's Bentonville, Ark., campus. At the meeting,...
WHY YOU NEED AN AUDIT CLAUSE
Clause: Audit If Hotel shows that the Group has picked up less than 80 percent of the contracted room block, Hotel agrees to perform an audit before invoicing...
Destination Marketing: Who Has the Most to Spend?
In 2004, convention and visitors bureaus got more bucks for their bang. CVB budgets increased an average of 3.1 percent last year, according to the Chicago...
Ask the Experts
AS MORE MEETING DEPARTMENTS move toward establishing strategic relationships with procurement, we tapped two purchasing industry leaders Paul Novak, CEO...
TO MEASURE IS TO KNOW
THE HEADLINE ABOVE is taken from the words of Lord Kelvin, 19th-century mathematical physicist. Another of his quotable phrases: If you cannot measure...
Incentives
Recognition Takes on a New Image
EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION appears to be shedding its image as new research proves its bottom-line benefits and more companies start their own programs. In...
Everyone Loves The Apprentice
Whether they're willing to admit it or not, almost everyone is an Apprentice junkie at some level. So for its sales incentive meeting in New Orleans,...
rule of thumb
An incentive program needs to offer a minimum of 3 percent to 5 percent of each participant's annual compensation to get their attention. So an employee...
In It for the Long Haul?
THREE YEARS AGO, American Fidelity Assurance Co., based in Oklahoma City, Okla., jetted its sales incentive winners halfway around the world. The Hong...
Sites
Convention Centers in the News
The $271 million CONNECTICUT CONVENTION CENTER AT ADRIAEN'S LANDING opened in June in Hartford. The building, which began construction in 2001, is 540,000...
ON LOCATION: Grand Rapids
DeVos Place convention center just keeps growing. December 2003 marked the opening of this 1 million-square-foot facility in Grand Rapids, Mich., including...
a temporary convention hall?
With the San Jose McEnery Convention Center bursting at the seams and a failed ballot for a tax-supported expansion, city officials took action. They...
Puerto Rico: Golf Without a Passport
ABOUT 40 MEETING PROFESSIONALS teed off in May at the third annual Meet the Greens Invitational Golf Classic and Marketplace. Hosted by the Puerto Rico...
Mountain Meetings
WHAT'S NEW Spas are hot across the nation, and the resorts of the Rocky Mountains are taking advantage of the trend. The older resorts of the area grew...
Last Word
lectern
LET'S GET IT STRAIGHT While the two are often confused, a podium is not a lectern. A podium is a raised platform on which a speaker stands, also referred...
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