May 2009 CMI
Features
Virtual Meetings, Real Results
Here’s how Stratus, P&G, and GoldenGate Software meet and exceed expectations by converting live meetings into virtual events....
Stratus Technologies: Virtual User Meeting Saves Big
Stratus took its user conference online in the hope of reaching new prospects. In the end, 52 percent of the attendees came from outside the United States, many of whom would never have traveled to a live event....
Procter & Gamble: Now Sourcing E-Meetings
The first step for Procter & Gamble employees now when they plan a meeting is to make a choice: virtual, live, or both? That’s because last year senior meetings manager Diana Johantgen helped to incorporate a virtual meetings protocol into her company’s strategic meetings management program, starting right when an employee registers an event request....
GoldenGate Software: Summer Sales Meeting Goes Hybrid
Flying the entire field sales organization—over 100 people—into one place more than once a year was becoming prohibitively expensive, considering both the event cost and the opportunity cost when reps are out of the field. So GoldenGate Software took its meeting to the Web....
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Let's Get Honest About Virtual Meetings
I'm writing this editorial right smack in the middle of a four-hour WebEx meeting. I just finished my salmon and crackers, my phone is on speaker and...
Post-Con
The Incentive Research Foundation’s Jennifer Brock loves living on a fault line
Chairwoman of the board, Incentive Research Foundation (which holds its annual invitational May 13-17 at the Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa, Palm Springs),...
Keynotes
Why Meeting Planners Should Become Meeting Architects
Maarten Vanneste has been the CEO of meeting production firm Abbit Meeting Support, based in Belgium, since 1982. His interest in meeting format and design,...
Meeting Advocates Make Their Case
There are signs that the meetings industry's Meetings Mean Business campaign to promote the value of meetings is having a positive effect. With leadership...
Pharma Meetings Outlook
An update on the forces at work on pharma meetings from the 2009 Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum...
Explore Your Inner Artist
Try this outside-the-box, inside-the-lines community service event ...
Breakouts
SMMP Wisdom: Continuous Improvement
It's not enough to have preferred suppliers, you must be able to monitor their performance so that it continually improves, and therefore, your meeting...
Legal Ease: Understanding Force Majeure
In the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many organizations canceled meetings that had been contracted months or years earlier. Because of the...
Motivation Matters: 7 No-Fail, Get-Them-Talking Ideas
More and more companies are turning their non-customer-facing events into virtual ones. So when you get the green light to bring employees together face...
Sites
Construction on The Strip
ARIA Resort & Casino is getting ready to make its mark in the Las Vegas skyline. The new property, scheduled to open this December on The Strip, is part...
Don't Want to Gamble? There's Still Plenty to Do
10Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat (at the Mirage) This is the open-air home of the animals that made the Siegfried & Roy show famous....
Departments
The Write Stuff
A small group of politicians and event industry leaders gathered for a breakfast meeting on the final day of NEMICE, the annual meeting of the New England...
Apple Meeting App
Turning Technologies, LLC, a leader in interactive response systems, joined the ranks of mobile polling companies last fall with a new application called...
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