February 1, 2007 CMI
Cover Story
Meetings in Second Life
The two of us met in a spotless, glass-walled boardroom, video screen at one end, photos of the organization's leaders at the other, and a large table...
Upfront
Special Events Intelligence
If there was a common theme at the Special Event 2007 (produced by our sister magazine Special Events), held January 9-12 in Los Angeles, it was that...
News & Info
MPI Convenes in the Big Easy for PEC '07
was the watchword as Meeting Professionals International got its 2007 Professional Education Conference rolling in New Orleans late last month. During...
Meetings Listserv Adds Education
The year-old Meetings Community listserv has launched a new monthly educational seminar, Chat Lessons 1.0, that will be facilitated by industry leaders...
Marriott Commissions Decision Roils Planners
Marriott International's New rules on how commissions are paid to independent planners and other group intermediaries have generated a heated discussion...
CIC Picks Stars
The Convention Industry Council has named five meetings-industry executives to the Hall of Leaders class of 2007. The CIC program started in 1985 and...
Pennsylvania Approves Slots
Pennsylvania's Gaming Control Board has approved 11 applications for slot-machine gaming licenses, including five for stand-alone casinos. Among the new...
Don't Let Leftovers Go to Waste
Robert Kalt Left his job as meeting planner for Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., with a mission: He wanted to find a better way to dispose of all...
Rebuilding New Orleans
Organizations looking to incorporate some social responsibility into their meetings can find no more welcoming destination than New Orleans. There, the...
The Lowdown on Intellectual Property
Ask Anyone to name the richest man in America, and they are likely to answer Bill Gates. The founder of Microsoft made his fortune not by owning land...
Meetings
ING Creates a Best Practices Meeting for Its In-House Planners
How do you create cohesiveness among your meeting planners when they sit in offices from Phoenix to Denver to Hartford? At financial services giant ING,...
From Planner to Point Person: Lisa Poulton Looks at the Big Picture
ING's meeting-management strategy decentralized meeting planners working off centralized policies and procedures only works if someone keeps the communication...
Incentives
Incentive Gifts and the IRS
Beware of giving lavish promotional gifts that have no direct connection to your business. That's the message from a recent clampdown by the Internal...
VIP Treatment for the Top Tier
Want to differentiate between your top-tier performers and the rest of your incentive winners? Independent meeting planner Diana Francies of Events to...
Behind the Scenes on KYXY-FM’s Crystal Award Winning Incentive
It All Looked so simple. Incentive planner Rich Wise had already completed his pre-con at the Sofitel Buenos Aires and had just flown into the group's...
Communications Upgrade: Interactive Meeting Calendar
At The Home Depot Supply, the wholesale distribution division of The Home Depot, the lengthy calendar of trade shows, road shows, grand openings, customer...
Wine Club Memberships
If you're looking for a gift that incentive winners or top customers will actually use, consider a wine club membership. As an added bonus, recipients...
namibia for incentives?
It isn't the first country to come to mind as an incentive destination, but Namibia was in the spotlight at the European Incentive & Business Travel &...
Technology
The Evolution of e-RFPs
In Just 11 Years, electronic requests for proposal have grown from novelty features on hoteliers' Web sites to an entire subindustry with hundreds of...
Sites
New and Renovated Venues
InterContinental Hotels Group announced that HOTEL INDIGO will add four boutique properties in the greater Baltimore-Washington, D.C., metropolitan area:...
Georgia & The Carolinas
What's New Raleigh, N.C., threw a block party in July for 60,000 residents, officials, visitors, and event planners to celebrate the reopening of Fayetteville...
Greater Washington, D.C.
The spectacular view that greets visitors arriving in Washington, D.C., from Virginia and points south is three silver spires soaring to a...
New York & New Jersey
The Big Apple remains a much-sought-after meeting and incentive destination, and new hotels and venues continue to spring up in some of the...
On Location: High Style in Boston
It wasn't until I looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of my room at The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common, that I realized why I always get lost navigating...
it's easy being green
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has come up with a new way to go green. The company has purchased, on an initial one-year basis, the equivalent of 116MwH of...
Last Word
CMP
Don't Get Confused In the meetings industry, the CMP acronym is everywhere because it stands for two different accepted standards: the Certified Meeting...
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