MeCo Turns One With New Seminar Series
Marking its one-year anniversary, the meetings industry listserv called MeCo, short for the Meetings Community, is launching a new feature called Chat Lessons 1.0 for its growing online community...
Hawaii CVB, Center Launch Joint Web Site
The Hawai`i Visitors and Convention Bureau and SMG Hawai`i, which manages the Hawai`i Convention Center, have joined forces to launch BusinessAloha.com, a new destination Web site dedicated to meeting planners’ needs in the Hawaiian islands....
Oahu: Who Knew?
They came to town bearing chocolate-covered macadamia nuts and news of the island. ...
Tollett Resigns Houston Bureau Post
Last week Gerard J. “Jordy” Tollett announced that he is resigning his post as president and CEO of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau to “pursue other ventures.” ...
Marriott to Require Accreditation for Independents
Marriott International is changing the rules about how commissions are paid to independent meeting planners and other group intermediaries...
MPI Heads to New Orleans
It will be the first opportunity for many industry professionals to see New Orleans post-Katrina as 2,500 are expected to attend Meeting Professionals International’s 2007 Professional Education Conference-North America, January 20 to 23 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. ...
Tricks--and Treats--in Store for Medical Meeting Planners
The Certified Medical Meeting Manager movement took another step forward this fall in the form of a completed pilot program, according to James Montague, president and CEO of PMPN, Durham, N.C., which created the CMMM program. ...
New Analysis of Meetings in the Marketing Mix
EventView 2006, the fifth annual study of how marketing professionals use meetings and events, documents a slight decrease in the percentage of marketing dollars earmarked for meeting and events and other indicators of their perceived importance in the marketing mix. At the same time, the study leaves little doubt of their strategic role and high perceived return on investment....
New Frontiers in Meeting Menus
Americans eat to live, Europeans live to eat. Until recently, this snipe at our fast-food culture was fairly accurate. But today, growing ranks of ordinary...
More Acronyms
ASAE to Launch Certification Program for Senior-Level Planners...
Assess Your Knowledge
PCMA develops core competencies for planners....
Proving Meetings' Economic Impact
IACVB publishes new delegate spending study....
Delivering Exhibitor ROI
Report from the Exhibition and Convention Exetuvies Forum...
Climate of Disclosure
How Sarbanes-Oxley affects associations...
MM Co-sponsors CME/Pharma Conference
As you all know, new and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in pharmaceutical companies’ procedures for funding CME and planning meetings....
As you all know, new and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in pharmaceutical companies’ procedures for funding CME and planning meetings....
Schering-Plough Shaves Meeting Costs with Online Auctions
In order to find the best vendors to handle the 1,300 meetings it holds each year, Schering-Plough Corp. now uses online reverse auctions. These are fixed-duration...
ACCME Board of Directors Gives Thumbs-up to New Standards
In a unanimous vote last week, the Accreditation Council for CME Board of Directors voiced its approval for the new revision of the Standards for Commercial...
Speak Out--ACCME: Show Us the Data
The Accreditation Council for CME’s policy is to share the list of accredited providers achieving exemplary compliance and the areas in which the highest...
Chaminade Wows Women’s Conference
As one of the designers for W2W, an invitation-only pilot program for 32 women in the meetings industry, held in March, I had never really worked with...
Chaminade Wows Women’s Conference
As one of the designers for W2W, an invitation-only pilot program for 32 women in the meetings industry, held in March, I had never really worked with...
Bowers Lands Top Job at CCTB
Christopher Bowers recently was named chief executive officer of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau. Bowers, who’s lived in Chicago his entire...
Surviving the ACCME Survey
Undergoing a survey for Accreditation Council for CME accreditation can be a daunting task. Just ask Wanda Johnson, CMP, senior director, meetings and...
Commercial Support Gets Even Tougher
The increasing difficulty of obtaining commercial support in the new regulatory environment, the explosive growth in MECCs, and other CME provider dilemmas...
People on the Move
Sue Ann Capizzi has joined the Woods Development Institute in Oak Park, Ill., as vice president, strategy and operations. WDI produces leadership and...
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