August 1, 2006 RCM
President's Message
Looking Ahead to RCMA 2007
The RCMA Board of Directors recently completed a very successful summer board meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The city is experiencing an active and...
Update
Fighting Hunger: RCMA Makes $100,000 Donation
To help meet the needs of starving children around-the-world, the Religious Conference Management Association, for the second year in a row, has donated...
Board Chooses Theme for RCMA '07
The RCMA Board of Directors has developed plans for its 35th World Conference and Exposition, to be held in Louisville, Ky., January 30 February 2, 2007....
OnVantage Introduces Small-Meetings Product
To streamline small-meetings purchasing, OnVantage has released a new product called EasyBook, aimed at tracking small-meeting spend and simplifying the...
Ready to Launch: Registered Travel Programs Are Here
With the promise that the Registered Traveler program will be rolled out in as many as 20 American airports this year, allowing pre-screened travelers...
Too Much Time: GAO Pushes to Reduce Wait Time for Visas
Only 27 countries are part of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. So travelers from the other 164 countries of the world need a visa to enter the United States...
Organization Speaks Against Outboarding
Outboarding, the practice of holding concurrent events not sanctioned by the official convention organizer, but that seek to garner the main event's audience,...
Profile
The Natural: Age Was No Barrier for Beard
Chances are, Bishop Ingo Beard started planning meetings a little earlier than you did. Beard began when he was a junior in high school. Beard's pastor...
Voices
How Do You Find and Show Thanks to Volunteers?
Listen to Opinions Christi Baum Conference DirectorClint Brown MinistriesFaithworld CenterOrlando, Fla. We give volunteers free tickets to the event for...
Features
The Hotel Trading Game
Suddenly, it seems, everybody wants to be in the hotel business, and everyone in the hotel business wants to grab every available customer. Mergers are...
What You Need to Know: Dealing With Disasters
According to a soon-to-be-released report that was conducted by Purdue University, meeting planners, on the whole, are not prepared to respond to disasters...
Affordable Citywides
15 strategies for keeping citywide meeting costs down...
Family Ties: 6 Tips for Planning a Reunion
You are a meeting planner, and the family matriarch decrees that you will plan the next family reunion. Now what do you do? Here are steps to make the...
Law
Site File
Texas
What's New Texas experienced the worst of storms and the best of comebacks during this past year. While Texas extended a big hand to victims of Hurricane...
Editor's View
New Look Reflects RCMA Membership
Notice anything different? What do you think? Do you like it? Those were the questions I asked my daughters last month when I walked into the living room...
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