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How Pharma Meeting Planner Lynn Rizdon Rose Through the Ranks

Lynn Ridzon's moment came early on in her career. It was the early 1990s and Ridzon was working as a planner in the marketing and communications department...

Mini Miles

With just a few weeks before the kickoff of her company's biggest customer event ever, Trudy Hardy was experiencing the usual nerves and apprehension...

Bank of America Hits the Fast Lane with NASCAR Sponsorship

Bank of America's sponsorship deal with NASCAR inked for a reported $20 million is not only helping the bank to market itself to potential customers but...

Cost Control

How Pharma Meeting Planner Lynn Rizdon Rose Through the Ranks

Lynn Ridzon's moment came early on in her career. It was the early 1990s and Ridzon was working as a planner in the marketing and communications department...

It's Different Over There

Most benchmarking around strategic meeting management has focused on U.S. companies until now. A new white paper released by Advito, the Dallas-based...

Keeping up with George Odom

A decade ago, it was only trailblazers who were even thinking about global meetings consolidation. Today, it's right up there with return on investment...

Outsourcing

A New List, A New Look

A few months ago, we embarked on a project like no other. We decided to do what's never been done and try to create a comprehensive list of the 25 top...

Launch Of A DMC Certification

The Association of Destination Management Executives, Dayton, Ohio, is rolling out a new accreditation program that it hopes will simplify the job of...

All About Events

Companies are not cutting back on events. A recent reader survey by our sister magazine Special Events reveals that 57 percent of event planners both...

Process Efficiencies

Six Sigma Wisdom

Whenever I find myself saying, That's the way we've always done it, I stop dead in my tracks. If you're doing certain things the way that you've always...

Surviving Six Sigma

When it comes to meeting management, Pricewaterhouse- Coopers is a trailblazer. Do you use meeting cards? PwC helped to invent them. Have you launched...

How Pharma Meeting Planner Lynn Rizdon Rose Through the Ranks

Lynn Ridzon's moment came early on in her career. It was the early 1990s and Ridzon was working as a planner in the marketing and communications department...

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Curious about the breakthrough application that allows meeting planners and suppliers to send event specs back and forth in a standardized format? Join the leaders of APEX, an initiative of the Convention Industry Council, in a must-attend webinar introducing Powershop.


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What Meeting Planners Need to Know to Manage E-Meetings

Virtual meetings save time and money, get a thumbs-up from the “green” crowd, and offer new ways for companies and organizations to communicate, market, and sell. It’s time for meeting managers to start booking and managing them.
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