Special Report
Meetings Technology
Your one-stop information source for meeting technology.
Meeting Management
The Role of Technology in Strategic Meeting Management (2006)Technology is the linchpin of a strategic meeting management program. And the Groups and Meetings Committee of the National Business Travel Association... Understanding the APEX Toolbox Electronic Templates (2006)The meetings industry has a big problem, and everyone knows it: Planners cannot communicate electronically with their venues. Event details are spelled... Strategic Meeting Management ToolsWhat’s the Difference? (2004)... Online Incentive Program Management (2003)The history of online incentive program management is not a long one. In the mid-1990s, pioneers began hammering together Web sites that allowed participants... |
New alliance between VISA and ArcaneoToday, strategic meeting management technologies have a low-tech side... Amex/StarCite Technology Integration (2007)Companies that bill their meeting expenses to the American Express card and use the StarCite meeting spend management tool heard some noteworthy news last week: The companies are integrating those products, allowing—among other things—for planners to reconcile the charges without rekeying them into the spend management tool.... Case Study: New York Life (2002)At century-old New York Life, software streamlined the planning process and helped the meeting department capture a bigger share of the company’s events.... |
Online Sourcing/Request for Proposals
The Evolution of e-RFPs (2007)In Just 11 Years, electronic requests for proposal have grown from novelty features on hoteliers' Web sites to an entire subindustry with hundreds of... Hilton’s Small Meetings Online Booking Tool (2007)Hilton Hotels Corp. in March relaunched its online booking tool for small meetings. In addition to a live inventory of room blocks, e-Events now allows... |
Online Auctions (2004)WHAT DO COPIERS, ELECTRICITY, AND OFFICE SUPPLIES have in common with meeting services? Some major corporations are purchasing all these things, and more,... |
Online Registration
Buyers Checklist for Online RegistrationFEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND online meeting registration systems or most meeting technologies, for that matter as well as Jeff Rasco, president of Attendee Management... Buyers Checklist for Online Registration (2006)More than 100 companies are out there selling online meeting registration. The question, of course, is which ones fit your organization's needs. Intelligent... |
The Cost of Online Registration: Is It Worth It?Everyone knows the benefits of online registration, but the costs can be brutal. Depending on the application, your overall volume, and the terms of your... Case Study: Prudential Financial (2004)Less typing, less paper those are the small victories of online meeting management. Staying ahead of the curve in the eyes of attendees, your company,... |
Data Security for Meetings
The Legal Side of Protecting Attendee Data (2006)What are Your Obligations Regarding Attendee Data? ... |
Protecting Your Meeting Network and Attendee Data (2006)Rampant identity theft and credit card fraud have raised awareness that personal information must be protected. But if you think these issues are only... |
Virtual Meetings
Meetings in Second LifeThe two of us met in a spotless, glass-walled boardroom, video screen at one end, photos of the organization's leaders at the other, and a large table... Virtual Trade Show Tool: Unisfair (2007)Cognos Inc.'s Financial Forum a customer seminar series traveled to only four North American cities this year compared to 11 in 2006. Yet the company's... |
Virtual Meetings: Start Thinking About it Now (2003)E-conferencing spiked immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 2001. And it continues to grow in popularity, but not necessarily because of... The Future of Videoconferencing (2002)Think of the classic scene from Star Wars in which the robot R2-D2 projects the shimmering holographic image of Princess Leia onto the floor of Luke Skywalker's... |
Web 2.0
Speaker Wikis (2006)When it comes time to line up speakers for your conference, do you find yourself buried in piles of prospectuses from potential presenters, or searching... Meetings 2.0: The Future Is Here, Are You Ready? (2007)Much attention is being paid on Web 2.0 and related web themes like social networking, collaboration, and measurement because they impact how we work, learn, and play. But how can an online movement relate to face-to-face events and the meetings industry? The answer becomes more obvious when we compare and contrast online and on-site experiences.... Wikis and the culture of collaboration (2007)Wikis are standard fare for technology conferences and what's hot with tech companies tends to spread fast. A wiki is a Web site that lets users easily... Social Networking at Meetings: IntroNetworks, Rio, SmartEvent (2005)FEW WOULD ARGUE that milling about at coffee breaks or walking aisles of eager exhibitors is the most efficient way to network. Yet that's the business... How Conference Organizers Can Use Blogs (2006)Now that social media such as blogs have filtered into the mainstream when it comes to politics, news, and the technology and entertainment industries, conference organizers are beginning to pick up on the trend... |
The Rise of Blogs at Meetings (2002)It will revolutionize how news is made. It's the rising voice of the heretofore unheard. It enables plain folks or grassroots journalists to replace or... How Web 2.0 Creates Trust for You and Your Events (2007)Web 2.0 is all about the attendees. They generate the content, they rate the content, and they recommend the content to peers. Most meetings and events lack those very qualities; people are treated like cattle and cargo. They don’t have a voice, and they don’t have their trusted peers’ recommendations to help decide what to see and do. ... Top Trends in Meeting Technology (2007)Technology continues to advance at exponential rates and is changing the face of the meetings industry in astonishing ways. We will see many developments in the next few years. Web 2.0 (the participatory Web) will change the events industry in several seemingly subtle ways, but with an overall profound impact.... My Experience at a Wiki WorkshopThis is an eyewitness account of a new meeting format in action. Many are thinking about how Web 2.0 might influence our industry—how it could make meetings different in tangible ways. I feel privileged to have an opportunity to see for myself.... |
Audience Response Systems
Getting the Most Out of Audience Response Systems (2003)THE SURGICAL TEAM has scrubbed up and donned their gowns; press 1 on your keypad if you're ready to operate. A script during the annual Transcatheter... ARS Basics (2007)In a Nutshell Audience response systems bring interactivity and in some cases, honesty to a meeting by allowing users to answer multiple-choice questions anonymously via a keypad... |
Case Study: ARS for Medical Education (2004)At Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass., the big issue three years ago was how to liven up its grand rounds programs. Donna Beales, MLIS, librarian... |
Winning Meeting Technologies
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EIBTM, an exhibition for the incentive, business travel, and meeting industry, sponsors the Worldwide Technology Watch, a competition to find the most innovative new technology in the meeting industry. Here's our coverage of winners and runner's up for the past five years. 2007—Spot Me 2, handheld meeting communication gadgetSpotMe 2, a handheld multifunction meeting gadget, has grabbed first place in the WorldWide Technology Watch competition, an annual contest run by EIBTM,... 2006—The Event Assistant, mobile phone application for meetingsTaking advantage of the worldwide, near-fetishistic attachment to cell phones, Dutch company Log On has created a Web-based application that allows conference-goers... 2006—Runners UpEIBTM's WorldWide Technology Watch had 26 entries in its 2006 contest to find innovations in meeting technology. While The Event Assistant took top honors,... 2003—nTag, interactive namebadgeThis week at EIBTM in Geneva, the Worldwide Watch presentation introduced the meeting community to a new name badge. For those following Worldwide Watch, a program that finds one innovative technology product or service each year to highlight as having great potential for the meetings industry, a name badge might seem an unlikely selection, but this badge isn’t like anything you’ve ever seen before. The product, nTAG, can work as a networking tool, polling device, attendee tracker, and even a di... |
2005—Vivien, meeting room design softwareEIBTM, an exhibition for the incentive, business travel, and meeting industry, is in its sixth year sponsoring the Worldwide Technology Watch, a competition... 2004—IntroNetworks, social networking toolEIBTM WORLDWIDE TECHNOLOGY WATCH, now in its fifth year of recognizing companies for their meetings-focused technology products, has picked a sophisticated... 2002—Throughlines, interactive training videosIs there anything more boring than a tired training video? When EIBTM, a European incentive and meeting industry exhibition, convened in Geneva in May,... |
Other/Meeting Technologies
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for Meetings (2006)An unusual number of attendees left the ROI meetings before the end. We need to re-evaluate the topic for next year. Sixty percent of the attendees in... |
Meeting Evaluation Technologies (2005)To measure is to know. These are the words of Lord Kelvin, 19th-century mathematical physicist. Another of his quotable phrases: If you cannot measure... |
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