IMEX and Fast Future Propose 10 Challenges for Meetings Industry
Interviews, research, and a global survey reveal the drivers of meeting changes in the next decade....
Active Integrates Mobile Suite With Meeting Tech Solutions
Active Network, the event technology company that acquired StarCite earlier this year, has launched a suite of mobile applications....
Europe Still Tops for Association Meetings
The International Congress and Convention Association releases is always-anticipated annual list of the most popular convention destnations worldwide....
CMS Pushes Sunshine Act Data Collection Deadline to 2013
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month that it was pushing back the deadline by which pharmaceutical companies must begin collecting data on the amount of money they spend on individual physicians to January 1, 2013. ...
With a Master Services Agreement, Contract Negotiation is “One and Done!”
MSAs save time and effort by getting legal terms agreed upon between your company and suppliers you use often....
White House Issues Memo on Meeting Limits
In a May 11 memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies, Jeffrey Zients, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, outlined new government restrictions on federal meetings and travel. ...
Commentary: A Price Tag on Knowledge—When Does It Defeat the Purpose?
Here's a dilemma facing many associations: how and whether to charge for strategic knowledge that might deliver better results if it circulated free. ...
Anatomy of a Merger: How Two Conventions Became One
When the Society for Biomolecular Sciences, Danbury, Conn., and the Association for Laboratory Automation, Schaumburg, Ill., agreed to merge in July 2010, the new combined organization, the Society of Laboratory Automation and Screening, set out to merge conventions, too. ...
Meetings Associations Support New Virtual Meetings Hub
Meeting Tech Expo Sets Sights on D.C.
The Meetings Technology Expo is landing in Washington, D.C., this year with a one-day event focused on technology-specific education and networking....
GSA Scandal Hits GBTA; ASAE Fights Restrictions on Government Meetings
The aftereffects of the U.S. General Services Administration’s disastrously mismanaged Western Region Conference continue to ripple through the meetings industry. ...
How Neuroscience Can Enhance Attendee Engagement
What you need to know about the neuroscience of engagement to create more meaningful meetings, conferences, and events...
Does CME Work?
CME providers at the weekly #CMEChat Twitter hashtag tackle the age-old question: Does CME work?...
Social Media and the ACCME: The Survey Says…
Results of a recent survey of CME providers about the Accreditation Council for CME and social media....
Study Says Docs Poised to Go Digital
Physicians are beginning to embrace online learning, according to a new study....
Going Global: FAQs for Meeting Management
Our panel of experts fields questions on currency, contracts, site inspections, and more....
NIQIE Adds Two Modules to Online Certificate Program
Online Matchmaking Service for Speakers and Events
A new online service wants to become event organizers' No. 1 source for finding experts—paid and unpaid—to deliver keynotes, fill panels, and lead breakout sessions....
Promote the Value of Meetings: New Tool Kit for Planners
U.S. Travel Association has just released a new Keep America Meeting tool kit for meeting professionals and venues. ...
Pennsylvania Convention Center Eliminates Labor Management Fee
The Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority and its labor supplier, Elliott Lewis Corp., have agreed to eliminate the 8 percent labor management fee that has been charged to customers and exhibitors for supplying unionized labor services at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia...
Ralenkotter Calls for New National Agenda for Meetings
The new chairman of the U.S. Travel Association’s board of directors, Rossi Ralenkotter, began his term with a call for a new national agenda to strengthen the meetings industry. ...
MPI’s WEC Announces Keynoters
“Meeting professionals are architects of human connections,” says Bruce MacMillan, president and chief executive officer at Meeting Professionals International. So, MPI’s 2012 World Education Conference, July 28–31 in St. Louis, will be all about providing opportunities for attendees to create the connections that will propel their organizations to success. ...
Maritz + Experient Could Make a Market-Dominating Combination
Experient is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Maritz Travel, giving Maritz a presence across the corporate, association, trade show, and government meetings markets....
San Diego Consolidates Sales and Marketing Under CVB
The San Diego Convention Center Corp.is moving its sales and marketing efforts to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau effective July 1, making the bureau the sole sales and marketing organization for the destination. ...
GSA's "Wasteful" Conference Spending Leads to Firings, Resignation, New Oversight
Martha Johnson, the head of the U.S. General Services Administration, fired two of the agency's senior leaders, placed four conference organizers on administrative leave, and submitted her own resignation as a result of a report by the GSA's Inspector General on excessive spending at GSA's 2010 Western Regions Conference in Las Vegas....
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