March 1, 2002
Marketing
POPgrams: TARGETED AND TRACKED
Meeting marketers who are still doubtful about the potential of Internet invitations have probably never had a POPgram in their in-box. POPgrams, the...
Charity Dividends
When the e-auction was over, a hot new Handspring wireless phone had received 53 bids and brought in more than $3,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of...
INTERNET MARKETING: Fast, Cheap, and Good
You may remember that great marketing tool called Pick Two, consisting of three simple words written on a sheet of paper: Fast, Cheap, and Good. When...
The Storytellers
Imagine no longer having to bring your brand to the ballrooms and meeting rooms of the world. Imagine, instead, designing an ideal meeting environment...
Articles
TREND LINES
Is there a place left for in-house logistics planners? Not at Nortel Networks. In fact, The only events people at Nortel are vendor managers. There aren't...
Will Your Hotel Be Ready?
The one-two punch of September 11 and the stagnant economy has slashed the number of hotel development and renovations projects scheduled for 2002. Marriott...
Mood Up, Attendance Down at MPI Conference
Quality, as opposed to quantity, may best describe Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference held January 20 to 22 in Honolulu....
CEMA Network
E-NEWSLETTER In the coming decade, tradeshows, meetings, and selling spaces will become more digitally active as technological advances invade the world...
San Jose: Uptown and Downtown
Dan Fenton, president and CEO of the San Jose (Calif.) Convention & Visitors Bureau, acknowledges that the buyer-seller relationship was changing even...
The Bay and the Valley
July will see the opening of a new 224-room hotel in Cupertino, Calif. The Cypress Hotel, which is being developed by Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group,...
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Compared to the century-old City Hall in downtown Portland, Ore., the 12-year-old Oregon Convention Center is a modern marvel, with its twin towers, glass-and-steel...
Aussies Build a Meeting Site
While the Australian Tourist Commission's www.australia.com serves the leisure traveler well, it's not much use to a serious meeting planner. ATC has...
MELBOURNE RELEASE 2.0
The Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre is in the process of updating itself. Still billed as the largest enclosed space in the Southern Hemisphere,...
A Byte at the Opera
The view from the top of the Sydney Opera House is dizzying even from the safety of your desk. See for yourself at www.soh.nsw.gov.au/h/home_fl.html....
Total Control
At Nortel Networks, our tagline is At the heart of the Internet, so we'd look pretty silly if we didn't have all the latest and greatest technology for...
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FINDS A HOME
Meeting U., a training company specializing in meeting technology education, is planning an 11-course program at a New York City training facility. James...
REVIEW: 360 DEGREES WEB CRUISE
If you're thinking about translating a land-based program to a cruise ship, the Landry & Kling Web site (www.landrykling.com) can help you navigate the...
Let Them Eat Lunch
Every year, Oracle's OpenWorld user conference gets bigger and bigger and more and more multicultural. Among the logistical problems this creates: How...
Clause and Effect: Indemnification and Hold Harmless
FIRST, DO NO HARM Contract clauses may look harmless, but without close scrutiny, they could leave your organization open to undeserved liability. CLAUSE:...
fyi
Comments Please The Convention Industry Council's effort to develop and implement industrywide accepted practices has something to show for itself. The...
POST-9/11 PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PODIUM
The September 11 attacks have influenced what people want to hear and from whom they want to hear it. Here's a sampling of speakers who address today's...
LEGAL EASE: Contracts in a Buyer's Market
We basked for so long in the glow of an ever-expanding economy and a strong meeting market that planners and hoteliers may have forgotten what a buyer's...
TRAINING: Strategies for Training Survival
I have a new idea for and you stand a good chance of making it onto my show. It's going to be called Survivor Trainer Version. Here's how it will work....
Revisiting ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 to ensure that, regardless of their capabilities, everyone including meeting attendees should be...
Design Showcase
If you want to hear all about the Freeman Cos., go online to www.freemanco.com, but if you just want to take a peek at what its designers are up to, check...
FACILITY ANALYSIS: BEST SECURITY PRACTICES
Nobody has been hurt in a terrorist attack on a convention center not yet, anyway. And if the Safety and Security Task Force organized by the International...
Convention Center Negotiations: Think Beyond Rate
Price per gross square foot, indemnification, T1 lines . Is there anything in a convention center deal that isn't negotiable? What about, say, helicopters?...
Who Said That?
If you're the type who thumbs through Bartlett's to find a great quote to spice up your marketing presentation, consider a time-saver from Santa Clara,...
KUDOS (X3) FOR WYNDHAM'S IT INITIATIVES
Wyndham International found its way into the IT spotlight three times last year, ranking among the Information Week 500 (ranking innovative users of technology)...
E-Whiteboard Chalks Up New Tricks
Videoconferencing conjures the same image in most minds. Someone is speaking into a camera at one location, mapping out strategy on a whiteboard, and...
fyi
I Want My MP3 Playback Now, a Norcross, Ga. based company that produces cassettes, CD-ROMs, and videos of conference sessions, has expanded its production...
SHHHHH! WE'RE IN A MEETING
If you've ever had your attendees start tapping to the soundtrack from the meeting room down the hall, then you know the problem: Hotels' walls don't...
Meeting E-volution
By using webcasting services from Yahoo!Broadcast rather than paying travel, lodging, and logistics costs, Kathy Sulgit, manager of seminar programs for...
THIS IS NOT A REPLICATOR AND THIS IS NOT LIEUTENANT UHURA
The crew of the starship Enterprise had a device that looked a lot like this one. Called a replicator, it could make food and other necessities materialize...
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