August 1, 2007 RCM

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Green Meetings: The Now Frontier

RCMA member Jan Sneegas has seen the future of meetings. She wants you to know that the future is green. Sneegas, director of general assembly and conference...

Meetings Industry Is Moving Forward Slowly

The average U.S. meeting attendee, over the course of a three-day event, uses more than 2,000 BTUs of electricity, consumes more than 800 gallons of water,...

Putting It in Writing

Amy Spatrisano of Meeting Strategies Worldwide, Portland, Ore., negotiates environmental requirements for each General Assembly partner prior to contracting...

The Rise of e-RFPs

In just 11 years, electronic requests for proposals have grown from novelty features on hoteliers' Web sites to an entire subindustry with hundreds of...

Assess Your Meeting's Eco Impact

Environmental meeting planning company Meeting Strategies Worldwide has launched a Web-based tool, the MeetGreen Calculator, that measures more than 95...

Just Add Water!

Is there any doubt that kids and perhaps grownups, too love waterparks? Would you like evidence? In the mid-1970s, waterparks did not exist, but today...

Meetings at Sea: Learn the Ropes

The following is based on a tutorial given at a past RCMA conference. The session included RCMA member David Graves, Church of the Nazarene, Olathe, Kan.,...

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President's Message: The Importance of Trust

In my lifetime, which spans more than half a century, I have discovered what I consider to be an awesome treasure: a sizeable number of friends and acquaintances...

Fighting Hunger: RCMA Makes Its Third $100,000 Donation

The Religious Conference Management Association, for the third year in a row, has donated $100,000 to the United Nations' World Food Programme to fight...

Join Your Colleagues at RCMA 2008 in Orlando

Make plans to join your colleagues and friends at RCMA's 36th World Conference and Exposition, to be held February 5-8, 2008, in Orlando, Fla., at the...

Industry Update

Growth: StarCite Buys Distributor, Expands in Europe

In a move to expand its European presence, Philadelphia-based StarCite announced in May that it had acquired Travent Limited, EMEA, a U.K.-based distributor...

Group Launches Definitive Meetings Report

There's no question that 2007 is the year of the green meeting. (See stories beginning on page 20.) To lead the charge, the Green Meeting Industry Council...

Did You Know? Room Setup Affects F&B Consumption

Have you considered that the way a room is set up affects the consumption of food and beverage? Well, it does, which makes it important to know how to...

Little Rock is Latest Airport to Add Fast Lane

Little Rock (Ark.) National Airport has picked Verified Identity Pass to run a Register Traveler program. Verified now has airport security fast lanes...

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Atypical: Laabs Brings Varied Experiences to Meeting Planning

Jonathan Laabs can't understand why Religious Conference Manager would want to profile him. I'm not a typical planner, he says in that gentle, unassuming...

What Are Your Food-and-Beverage Challenges?

Carrie Dahm Meeting Planner, Admin. Assistant National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Oak Creek, Wis. Our greatest challenge is cost....

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WHAT'S NEW The state of Texas wants to raise the bar in the meetings industry, giving planners and attendees more than they expect. To do that, many of...

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