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Education Central

Learn more about our featured events and educational opportunities.

MeetingsNet Recommends

April 23-24, 2008

Virtualis Convention and Learning Center-Grand Opening Educational Event
Virtualis is opening in Second Life, the online virtual world, and this free event for the meetings community will offer keynotes, educational breakouts, and tours of the event-focused 3D island. Click here to see a promotional flyer, or e-mail Dan Parks for information about the agenda or the Second Life experience.

May 22, 2008

Simple Steps to Green Meetings and Events,
Washington, DC
Meeting Strategies Worldwide

June 18–20, 2008

Financial & Insurance Conference Planners 2008 Education Forum
Orlando, FL
Financial & Insurance Meetings editor, Regina Baraban has been an active member of the design team for this year’s event.

June 25, 2008

MeetingsNet presents Green Power: Cost-Effective Ways to Reduce Your Meetings’ Carbon Footprint.
Going for greener meetings is a hot topic, but there are still only a handful of meeting professionals who are actually taking cost-effective steps to make their events environmentally friendly. Everyone in the meetings industry can learn from the green initiatives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which has been greening its meeting for many years; and the organizer of The Green Exposition, who is working with the city of Chicago and a number of associations to produce a green procurement exposition and conference in in Chicago. Destinations Showcase Chicago

Online Learning

On-Demand Webinar
The Event Specifications Guide: Making APEX Standards Work For You
originally presented February 29, 2008
The latest in a series of four educational Webinars on the Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) brought to you by MeetingsNet in cooperation with the Convention Industry Council. Follow this link for MeetingsNet's current and on-demand webinars.

Online College Seminars for Meeting and Event Pros
Ongoing

Earn continuing education credits when you attend these commercial-free webinars offered by Harrah College of Hotel Administration-University of Nevada, Las Vegas. UNLV faculty, faculty from other prominent hotel colleges, and leading industry professionals present regularly scheduled, one-hour classes on meeting planning logistics, marketing and sales, risk and legal issues, tradeshows and exhibitions, and banquets and catering. Students who register using the MeetingsNet code will receive a $20 discount off of the $99 fee. To receive the discount, simply type MNPenton into the Group Discount Box on checkout. Visit hotelunlv.webex.com for more.

May 20, 2008

The Paperless Meeting: Communicate, Market and Sponsor Green, a Webinar
Professional Convention Management Association

April 23, 2008

Topic: Hotel Contracts: Balancing the Legal Issues with your Business Considerations
Time: 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT - Duration: 60 minutes
Negotiating hotel contracts these days is often a challenging proposition. On the one hand, planners want to maximize the value to their organization while minimizing the potential for liability. Suppliers, on the other hand, need to maximize their revenue while still preserving the business relationship with the planner. Join hospitality industry attorney Barbara Dunn of Howe & Hutton, Ltd. as she discusses key legal considerations for hotel contracts and identifies the various best practices for addressing them in the contract while keeping the relationship intact. Topics to be addressed include room rate protections; room, and food and beverage attrition fees; cancellation fees; force majeure provisions; and other rights of cancellation without liability. This informative session is one you won't want to miss!

Also on the Calendar

April 22–24, 2008

IMEX
Messe Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany

April 30-May 2, 2008

The Global Summit on Social Responsibility
ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership
Prince George's County, MD

May 18–20, 2008

Association of Corporate Travel Executives
Global Education Conference
Washington, DC

May 28-June 1, 2008

Incentive Research Foundation Invitational
Nassau/Paradise Island, Bahamas

June 4-5, 2008

The Green Procurement Expo, Chicago
Features educational sessions and an exhibition with 215 booths. More than 1,000 attendees are expected for the first show dedicated to gathering procurement, purchasing, and supply chain managers and environmentally preferable products and services under one roof.