December 2009 RCM
Prelude
Good Photography Can Be Great for Marketing Religious Meetings
Videos are great, Twitter has its uses, and I love Facebook, but nothing can match the impact of a powerful photo gallery. Exhibit A for the power of...
Connections
President's Message: Join Me in Texas for RCMA 2010
In January 1980, I traveled to Anaheim, Calif., to attend my first RCMA World Conference and Exposition. I have not missed one since. Attending RCMA is...
How Religious Meeting Planner Vernon Byrd Pulls Off Youth Meeting With 36,000 Attendees
Vernon Byrd is not your typical meeting planner, and the event he runs, Camporee, is not your typical religious conference. It's held every five years on a large piece of land in Oshkosh, Wis. Camporee is an international gathering of Pathfinders, a youth group of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The most recent Camporee took place August 12 to 16, and attracted 36,000 Pathfinders from around the world. Here's how the 2009 event came together....
Voices: Describe an Important Change that You Implemented in 2009
We asked religious meeting planners what they have done in the past year to improve their meetings. Read about changes they have made in: programming, community service, database management, attrition, contracts, and registration...
Social Media at Meetings:
The New Coffee Break?
With attendees frantically updating Facebook accounts on their BlackBerrys between sessions, tweeting about your keynoter while she’s still on stage, and tapping away on netbooks during breaks...
Top Tech
PATHABLE, an online community and social network for conferences, has won the WorldWide Technology Watch Award from EIBTM, the Barcelona, Spain-based...
Exhibitions and the Under-40 Crowd: New Research
How do young professionals view meetings and exhibitions, and what can meeting professionals do to attract them? Those were the central questions explored in a study by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, called “The Power of Exhibitions in the 21st Century: Identify, Discover, and Embrace Change from the Point of View of Young Professionals.”...
Generational Differences
The report differentiates between Generation X attendees (ages 28 to 39) and the younger Millennials (ages 18 to 27). For example, Generation X is considered...
Convenience and Relevance
The researchers found that 84 percent of respondents had attended one or more exhibitions in the past three years. On average, respondents had the opportunity...
Social Networking and Socializing
Young professionals make intensive use of the Internet for information and networking. About 88 percent use a social networking Web site regularly. Facebook...
Strategic Reading
If all meeting professionals integrated sustainability into their planning and decision-making, just think about the effect it could have on the planet....
Features
Lessons Learned: How the Economic Crisis Has Led Four Faith Groups to Revamp and Recharge Their Meetings
It's not surprising that many faith-based meeting planners are scrambling to find ways to continue to produce affordable, high-impact meetings and conventions with reduced budgets and staff. Here's a look at how four groups are meeting this challenge, and in some cases, finding a silver lining...
Economic Survey: Religious Meeting Planners Expect 2010 To Be Better Than 2009
Our exclusive, second annual market survey of RCMA meeting-planner members confirms what has been observed throughout the year: 2009 was a difficult year...
What You Need to Know for RCMA 2010
RCMA is constructed to help religious meeting planners like you increase your knowledge and skills. As an attendee, you can expect to develop strategic...
Attention Shoppers! Buyer’s Guide: Strategic Meeting Management Software
Meeting management software today can increase compliance with corporate policies and give planners powerful reports to share with executives...
Lessons
New Productivity Tools For Meeting Planners
Even with all the changes seen recently in mobile and social-networking technologies, 2010 may yet be a redefining year for how we communicate with one another. Game-changing hardware, operating systems, and ideas are on the horizon. Here are six to keep an eye on in the coming year...
The Word | How Flowers Can Brighten Your Meetings
(noun) 1. The seed-producing structure of an angiosperm; 2. a plant cultivated for its blossoms Arrange Like an Egyptian The earliest known practice of...
Audience-Response Systems Can Improve Your Religious Meetings
Audience response systems, often called clickers or keypads, allow each person at a gathering to have a voice in the meeting. Essentially, ARS devices transform audiences from observers into participants. In a few years, attendees will expect meeting professionals to be not just familiar with the technology, but also able to deploy it skillfully...
Sites
Meeting Planner's Guide to Mexico
Mexico destination news for meeting planners ...
Florida Meeting Planner's Guide
Resilient Florida continues to enhance its appeal to groups, large and small. Despite the sluggish economy, a cursory glance at construction in Florida reveals a new special-events center in Orlando, a massive multi-use business/hotel complex in Miami, and a new international airport in Panama City. Here are some of the highlights...
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