September 1, 2000
Upfront
Mission Possible: Security
So, you have a very important meeting coming up. Stockholders, directors, executive management, and outside consultants are meeting to plan your IPO....
Tech Trends
e-Sign of The Times
The meetings industry continues to "e-volve," taking advantage of the quicker response time, reduced paperwork, and lower costs of e-commerce, e-mail,...
Chat Room
AND THE BEAT GOES ON ...
Need to figure out how to drum up a hot new software concept? Tired of beating your head against the wall when one department's techie teammates can't...
Messages
Opryland Hits the Nation's Capital
Announcing its third Opryland development outside of Nashville, Gaylord Entertainment Co. unveiled plans for a self-contained, 2,000-room destination...
Meeting in the Garden of Good and Evil
Referred to affectionately by locals simply as The Book, the best-selling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt put Savannah on the...
Montreal Memo
Montreal's world-renowned reputation in the international convention industry keeps growing: It was recently ranked third (behind Washington, D.C., and...
Opryland Hits the Nation's Capital
Announcing its third Opryland development outside of Nashville, Gaylord Entertainment Co. unveiled plans for a self-contained, 2,000-room destination...
Articles
Consolidate, e-Motivate
So you think your travel incentive program is unwieldy? How about being in charge of a program for 32,000 employees around the world? Just thinking about...
SPA meetings
CONSIDER the figures: In 1980, only 60 hotels and resorts offered spa programs in the United States. During the 1980s, that figure doubled. By 1999, more...
One on One: What's a Funmaster?
When we spoke with Greg Erman, President and CEO of Lexington, Mass.-based MarketSoft Inc. in mid-May, it was mighty quiet in his company's software engineering...
CEMA SUMMIT 2000 REPORT
Tough issues and high spirits marked the CEMA Summit 2000 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. This year's Computer Event Marketing Association...
* IACVB REPOSITIONS ITSELF ON THE NET
Taking a cue from the online adult entertainment industry, one of the few industries that has actually made money on the Web, the International Association...
* PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Darcy Bowman Rose, CMP, executive director of Rendezvous and a founding member of TM's editorial advisory board, received the Meeting Planner of the Year...
* MPI REDEFINES THE POWER OF MEETINGS
The value of meetings and events to organizations around the world has only one way to go: up. That's the word from Meeting Professional International's...
* B-THERE.COM ALIGNS WITH INDUSTRY LEADERS
Its goal relative to the association and trade show world is simple. "We want to own it," says Peggy Lee, CEO and founder of Westport, Conn.-based b-there.com...
Sorting the hip from the hype in new CD-ROMs, Web sites, and books
Last-Minute Stuff Site Some genius product manager has just come to you with a request, since you're the kind of person who "knows where to find these...
An Old Friend Gets Even Better
Do you know who Douglas Englebart is? Your reviewer did not, to his everlasting shame. Englebart invented the device we know as the mouse. When he introduced...
Geek-Free Web Site Advice
Who is in charge of your organization's Web site? Who puts together the pages where attendees find out about your meeting, register for it, select sessions...
PRAISE FOR ePRAISE
An old company (Baudville Inc., a 17-year veteran of the recognition products business) with a new Web site, www.baudville.com, makes sending thank-you...
Itsy-bitsy Boxlight Projector
Weighing only 4.8 lbs. and beaming an impressive 1000 ANSI lumens, Boxlight Corporation's XD-9m multimedia projector squeezes a lot of brightness into...
A Bear of a Handheld PC
Goldilocks would just love the NEC MobilePro 780 handheld computer. Smaller than a laptop, bigger than a PalmPilot, it has a 90 percent scale keyboard...
Picture This
If you're booking a property a year in advance, it may not be enough to have a paragraph in the contract about the venue's physical condition. In fact,...
HOMESPY FOR ROAD WARRIORS
OK, so you knew when you took the job that you'd spend a zillion hours on the road, but you find yourself pining for home and hearth more than you expected....
Add Value with a Visiting Professor
One of the major reasons people attend technology meetings is to network with others who may be working on similar problems or using similar technologies....
Delivering the Promise
Recognize this scenario? Within minutes of arriving at a training session, you know it was a mistake to attend. Not because the trainers are unqualified...
Tools of Engagement
Sometimes, reaching an audience through videoconferencing involves more than simply enabling multiple sites to see and hear the same message at the same...
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