Four Principles for Planning Brain-Friendly Annual Meetings
Tear down traditional conference models and rebuild based on these adult-learning tenet...
Our Top 8 Diet and Exercise Tips for Conference Travel
If your meeting destination is within walking distance, skip the shuttle or the taxi. If you can arrive at your destination in less than half an hour, and the concierge has told you the neighborhood is safe, walk...
My Top 10 Reasons to Bolt from a Meeting
We've all been there—sneaking covert glances at our watches and reading ahead on the agenda in the wild hope that the next meeting session will be better than the one we're suffering through now...
15 Tips for Making Meetings More Meaningful
Here are 15 ways we can change the world, one meeting at a time...
How Europe’s 30 Largest Cities Rate for Sustainability
In December 2009, during the United Nations' 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15), Siemens AG and The Economist Intelligence Unit (a division of The Economist magazine), released the European Green City Inde...
Top 25 Cost-Saving Site Selection Tips
Here are our top 25 tips for getting the best deal for your next meeting...
15 Tips for Managing Meeting Expenditures
Here are 15 steps toward identifying, leveraging, and managing your organization’s meeting spend through a Strategic Meeting Management Program...
Kansas City, Mo., on List of 7 Surprising Museum Cities in U.S.
Everyone knows that cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco boast fabulous museum attractions, but they haven't cornered the market...
10 Tips for Hiring and Working with Speakers
Don’t skimp when you search. Look for the following information about your speaker to make the most informed decision...
9 Must-Have Apps for Meeting Pros
As long as you're dragging that smart phone everywhere you go, you may as well put it to work. We've rounded up nine must-have apps for meeting professionals (and a few more just for fun). All are built for the iPhone, but BlackBerry users take heart: some comparable applications are out there. ...
10 Top Tech Tools for Meeting Planners
Our editors highlight some new and not-so-new meeting planning technology tools to help you stay above high water in your job...
Drayage: Top Ten Cities with Lowest and Highest Rates
Labor expenses are a huge factor in trade show budgets—and they generally increase every year...
Airports With Highest and Lowest Average Domestic Fares
Average domestic air fares in the second quarter of 2009 fell to their lowest April-to-June level since 1998, dropping 13 percent from the second quarter of 2008...
12 Great Golf Resorts for Meetings
It's a bit off the beaten path in the Idaho panhandle, but Coeur d'Alene Resort provides a high-class experience at a price point that's tough to duplicate elsewhere. There's just one golf course, so smaller groups are ideal...
Dining Out: Top 5 Least and Most Expensive Cities
Which convention cities offer the best deals for dining out? Zagat’s 2010 America’s Top Restaurants survey, released in October, offers some helpful information for meeting planners looking to compare restaurant costs among U.S. destinations...
