Commentary: Don't Let a Speaker's Style Defeat Substance
A keynote speaker at Meeting Professionals International's MeetDifferent 2010 has been generating sparks from bloggers who followed the conference, not because of his message, but for the way he delivered it...
Barbara Scofidio's Check In: Rethink Your Incentives
Incentives need to offer winners a sense of autonomy, mastery, and purpose—the cornerstones of Daniel Pink’s new book, Drive....
Daniel Pink's Drive: A New Look at Motivation and Incentives
The old carrot-and-stick form of motivation doesn't work for today's self-actualized workforce, says the author of the new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. So what does that mean for incentives?...
Public TelePresence Suites Added by Starwood, Marriott
Last June, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Marriott International each announced plans to add public Telepresence suites to a number of business hotels in major cities around the world. Now, within weeks of each other, the two chains have reported their first openings....
New and Updated Venues
When CityCenter opened in Las Vegas in December, it represented a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For owner MGM-Mirage, it was the successful com- pletion of an $8.5 billion project that could have failed any number of times...
PSS World Medical Forges Ahead With Half the Budget
Faced with big budget cuts for its annual meeting, PSS World Medical’s planners got creative, had some fun—and saved 300 jobs in the process....
Creative Group’s New Orleans Build
As part of its annual sales meeting, Creative Group painted a home that was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina...
Market Maker: Roger Helms
Even amid a lingering downturn in a suffering industry, you couldn't find a sour note among the 603 associates at HelmsBriscoe's18th Annual Business Conference in Las Vegas in January...
Post Con: After hours with Rick Binford, executive vice president, event management services, Experient, Twinsburg, Ohio
After hours with Rick Binford, executive vice president, event management services, Experient, Twinsburg, Ohio...
Melissa Van Dyke Named IRF President
The Incentive Research Foundation has a new person at the helm....
American Express Incentive Services Now Wholly Owned by Maritz
Formed 13 years ago as a joint venture between Maritz Inc. and American Express, American Express Incentive Services is now entirely owned by Maritz Holdings Inc. Here's how AEIS sees the future of prepaid cards in the meetings and incentives world....
Commentary: Twitter On-site—the Good, the Bad, and the Limited
There was a whole lot of tweetin' goin' on this week at MPI's MeetDifferent 2010, with the association's Virtual Access Pass streaming content to a wider audience and bringing in ideas, input, and questions from off site...
MeetDifferent, Cancun, May Be MPI's Last
Close to 1,100 people were learning and networking at Meeting Professionals International's MeetDifferent conference in Cancun, according to Bruce MacMillan, MPI's CEO, at a press conference on February 22. While acknowledging that number was just slightly below expectations for the February 20–23 meeting, he also hinted that this would be MPI's last MeetDifferent...
MPI’s First Hosted-Buyer Program Generates 1,500 Appointments
More than 1,500 pre-scheduled appointments between 110 meeting managers and 90 suppliers took place February 20-23 at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent 2010 conference in Cancun, Mexico. This marks MPI's first foray into a hosted-buyer program, which offered complimentary hotel stays and airfare or registration for qualified meeting planners who committed to meet with 15 suppliers. While the program got more participants than expected, it took time for some of the buyers—and suppliers—to get used to the system. ...
Trio of Reports Shows Insurance Industry Stabilizing
Though the economic outlook in the United States remains uncertain, there are positive signs in the insurance industry—including a recovering AIG....
NBTA to Hold Strategic Meeting Certification Week
The brand-new Strategic Meetings Management Certification's Core Week 1, will be held March 8–12 at Emory University in Atlanta....
EIBTM Honors Event Company for Top ROI Measurement
EIBTM, the European Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings exhibition, which wrapped up in December in Barcelona, has awarded a Finnish event-management company top honors for its use of ROI Methodology to measure the success of a client's meeting. Here's how it worked. ...
International Meetings Outlook: U.S. Organizations Sticking Close to Home
International meeting and incentive destinations suffered through major declines in group business in 2009, and the outlook is not much better for 2010, according to two recent reports. ...
Commentary: Making "Green Meetings" Redundant
My head is still spinning with ideas, enthusiasm, and wall-to-wall content from last week's 2010 Sustainable Meetings Conference in Denver, hosted by the Green Meeting Industry Council....
Snow Cancels ASAE Tech Conference, but New Instant Event Emerges
The massive snowstorm that hit the East Coast this week caused the American Society for Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership to cancel its February 10–12 Technology Conference and Expo at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. However, all was not lost. ...
Be in Your Attendee’s Pocket: Smart-Phone Apps for Meetings
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. ...
Need to Keep Employees Positive in a Down Economy? Just Ask Bob Nelson
CMI columnist Bob Nelson has become the "guru of thank you" by sharing best practices from companies around the globe. His most recent book, Keeping Up in a Down Economy: What the Best Companies Do to Get Results in Tough Times, is packed with even more....
Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas, to Close
Another luxury property, The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas, in Henderson, Nev., will close its doors on May 2. ...
Homeland Security Charged with Controlling Meeting Spend
The U.S. Office of Inspector General is urging the Department of Homeland Security to have greater oversight and controls over money spent on conferences...
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