June 1, 2008 RCM
Prelude
Embracing Grand Rapids for RCMA 2009
RCMA 2009 will convene in Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 27-30, 2009. This is RCMA's first conference in a Northern city since Pittsburgh in 2004, and Milwaukee before that in 2001. I live in Minnesota, and there's no denying that it's cold in the North in January. But Northern cities know that they need to work extra hard to attract meetings and conventions for the winter months. And they do. ...
Connections
President’s Message: Real Smiles
Today, we do not always know if what we are seeing with modern media is the “real thing.”...
RCMA Profile: Heidi Jo Hagstrom
Heidi Jo Hagstrom needed to postpone being interviewed for RCM magazine. She was recuperating from a flare-up of multiple sclerosis, but to see her, you'd probably never know....
RCMA Members Set Sail
Sailing The High Seas Is the wave of the future for many faith-based organizations. Keeping up with this trend, a group of RCMA members recently joined in an “Education at Sea” seminar aboard the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Valor...
RCMA Moves Offices to a New Location
Just ahead of the wrecking ball, the World Headquarters of the Religious Conference Management Association has moved. For more than 23½ years, RCMA offices have been housed in the RCA Dome (formerly the Hoosier Dome) in Indianapolis....
RCMA Members Earn Their CMPs
Congratulations to these RCMA members who recently earned CMP certification. Meeting Planners Coleen M. Brooks, CMPEvent ManagerBaptist General Conference...
Open Skies, Explained
Forget what you know about getting your groups to Europe. The Open Skies Agreement between the United States and the European Union, which went into effect earlier this year, will eliminate decades of restrictions on the trans-Atlantic airline market....
Features
RCMA Survey 2007—The Results
The annual RCMA Member Survey gives a picture of religious meetings conducted by RCMA's meeting planners. The 2007 snapshot shows that RCMA members are an important, growing force in the meetings industry as they build on strong relationships with the people, facilities, and communities that provide services for religious events. ...
Lessons
Patti Shock: Setting the Mood In A Room
While it’s easy to focus on the food and the program, don’t forget the decor...
Linda Schwartz: 10 Tips for Boosting Exhibit Hall Traffic
A robust exhibit hall is crucial to the success of many religious meetings. There are a number of tried-and-true exhibit hall traffic boosters — such as providing food, beverages, and booth giveaways — but many organizations have moved beyond these traditional drawing cards....
How to Buy Carbon Offsets
An Increasingly Popular Way for organizations to demonstrate their environmental stewardship is through carbon offsets. Essentially, groups acknowledge their carbon footprint...
Bringing Innovation to Cost-Cutting
Cost-Cutting Is a Near-Constant task of meeting-planning staff. Almost from the beginning of each fiscal year, our collective fear that we won't “hit the numbers” or “make budget” is all-consuming...
Last Word: Evaluate
Evaluations can also focus on objectives, such as whether attendees have learned something, changed perspective, networked effectively, or met the organization's goals in some other way...
Sites
The South-Central States Update
The region is working hard to bring meetings back post-Katrina. There are still problems, of course. And there is a stigma that may take years — decades — to erase. But every day, New Orleans and the other Mid-South communities damaged by Hurricane Katrina are growing stronger.
Events big and small are starting to return. New Orleans' annual Mardi Gras is back on track, attracting a crowd of 750,000. The city hosted the 2008 NBA All-Star Game — and 50,000 attendees — as well as the Allstate BCS National Championship and the Allstate Sugar Bowl, both at the Superdome. Of even higher interest to meeting planners, a 20,000-plus person citywide convention was successfully executed. Read more about the Mid-South States. ...
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CVB Supplement 2008
The Changing Face of CVBs
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