March 1, 2007 FIM

Cover Story

Doing It All: Women in financial meeting planning on the quest for work-life balance

To the outsider, Karyn Evans appears to have it all under control. A CMP and CMM, the 40-year-old is principal planner of meeting and event services...

Editor's Note

Taking Control

We've all been there: A speaker asks the audience to please turn off their BlackBerrys and cellphones. Not everyone listens. When this happened during...

Meeting Management

Handling Common Emergencies

Every planner will be faced with first aid needs at one time or another, said safety consultant Michael Giordano during an information-packed presentation...

NASD Penalizes for Perks

In the first two weeks of February, NASD (the governing body for securities firms) sanctioned several companies, including Fidelity Investments, for violations...

Fairmont Harnesses Wind Power

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, long at the helm of environmental awareness, has come up with a new way to go green. The company has purchased, on an initial...

Strategic Spending On the Rise

There's no question that strategic meeting management is no longer just the purview of a handful of Fortune 500 companies with large, centralized meeting...

Waste Not, Want Not

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...

A Planner's Guide to F&B Trends

Attendees are more sophisticated in food matters than they used to be. They seek a dining experience for even the smallest catered function. They are...

Who's Afraid of the CVB?

It seems that convention and visitors bureaus get a bad rap from corporate meeting managers. The gripes: CVBs are too association-focused, they take care...

Incentives & Motivations

Spending Grows, Group Size Shrinks

According to a recent incentive trends survey conducted by Corporate Meetings & Incentives (sister magazine to Financial & Insurance Meetings), budgets...

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

As he planned a June 2007 Allstate Insurance Co. incentive trip to the Caribbean, Mark Mosley thought long and hard about his group's flight arrangements....

Reports from the Field

Global Expansion

was the watchword at Meeting Professionals International 2007 Professional Education Conference in New Orleans late January. During the opening session,...

FICP Newsletter

FICP Profiles

Kim Boriin, CMP, senior event marketing specialist at Guardian Investor Services LLC, New York, N.Y., is FICP's new vice president, education and is in...

Northeast Regional Meets in Boston

About 35 planners and 20 suppliers gathered January 4 to 6 for FICP's Northeast Chapter winter meeting at the sleek and stylish new Inter-Continental...

Sites & Venues

Focus: Conference Centers

The New Hall D at Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, opened last year. With a dramatic glass wall facing the scenic North Saskatchewan River...

Central Florida

What's New Everything about Orlando is off the charts: its mega-resorts, gargantuan theme parks, and skyrocketing growth. This is a city with 113,000...

Last Laugh

I Wonder About the Wonders

International Travel is always an adventure because it's fun to see new things, eat new foods, and have people curse at me in new languages. But the best...

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