The June 30 #Eventprofs Happy Hour, "Ask Me Anything About Event Production,” showcased more than just today's hottest AV and production trends. Led by Adrian Segar, participant-led-conferences advocate, author, and facilitator extraordinaire, an...

See that guy over there who’s talking intently at a cocktail round on the exhibit floor with a small group of attendees? His badge says he’s just another attendee, and he only paid the attendee registration fee, but he is a de facto exhibitor—a s...

Earlier this year, IACC (formerly the International Association of Conference Centres, now officially referred to by its acronym alone) surveyed meeting planners and interviewed other meeting professionals to create a report on the “IACC Meeting ...

I participated in my first Blab—kind of like a Periscope-type video chat for groups—and got a heaping pile of great thoughts about AV and production issues during the June 30 #Eventprofs Happy Hour, "Ask Me Anything About Event Production.” Adria...

CventConnect's Innovation Pavilion was the place to preview the company's upcoming releases.What is Cvent? Well, unless you want the vaguest of answers (say, “meeting technology”), you can get different answers depending on who it is you’re talki...

I've been toying with the idea of podcasting for quite a while now, so when I saw Mike McAllen, the podcast king over at Grass Shack Events and Media, was offering a free guide to podcasting for events, I was ready to download. I usually am reall...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Grass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen sits down with Heiner Koppermann, cofounder and CEO of SwarmWorks Ltd. (Germany) and SwarmWorks, Inc. (USA), both specializ...

I recently came across a must-read for meeting professionals and the C-level executives they are dedicated to supporting: Meeting At C-Level: an Executive’s Guide for Driving Strategy and Helping the Rest of Us Figure Out What the Boss Wants...

According to the most recent PCMA salary survey, women—who comprised 86 percent of the survey-takers—still make 23 percent less than their male colleagues. Sigh. Not surprisingly, when the topic came up during a livestreamed trends session at ...