How to Skillfully Use Audience Response Systems
How to Skillfully Use Audience Response Systems
Dec 14, 2009
Once every few generations, there is a technological development that historians later realize actually amounted to a rapid transformational change for an entire profession. The job of architects, for example, was transformed with the advent of s...
Head of Lutheran Denomination Uses Virtual Technology for Nationwide Town Hall Meeting
Head of Lutheran Denomination Uses Virtual Technology for Nationwide Town Hall Meeting
Dec 11, 2009
In what might be a first for the head of a U.S. church denomination, the leader of the nation’s largest Lutheran church used virtual technology to lead an interactive nationwide town hall meeting...
New Online Reseller for Canceled Meeting Contracts
Dec 10, 2009
If you’re looking down the barrel of a big cancellation penalty, a new online service could help save your budget. MeetingTrader, a clearinghouse for canceled meeting space, expects to come out of its beta-test phase in the first quarter of 2010...
Cheap Internet from Trade Show Startup
Dec 09, 2009
San Francisco-based rade Show Internet, launched in May, has shipped out hundreds of its $299 plug-and-play Internet kits.
Industry Leaders to Obama: 7 Ways to Create More Jobs
Dec 07, 2009
With nearly 400,000 travel industry jobs lost in 2008 and 2009 as a result of the economic downturn, both the U.S. Travel Association and the American Hotel and Lodging Association are urging President Barack Obama to enact legislation that...
Why Not Replace 20 Percent of Business Trips with Videoconferences?
Dec 07, 2009
The meetings industry has a few answers to that question.
Describe an important change that you implemented in 2009 for your association meetings
Describe an important change that you implemented in 2009 for your association meetings
Dec 07, 2009
Sue WaltonCo-owner, May and Williams Ltd., Independent Meeting Planners, Evanston, Ill. The No. 1 thing I've done this year is to give up the post office and go paperless. All my membership announcements and conference announcements are now done ...
How Religious Meeting Planner Vernon Byrd Pulls Off Youth Meeting With 36,000 Attendees
How Religious Meeting Planner Vernon Byrd Pulls Off Youth Meeting With 36,000 Attendees
Dec 07, 2009
Instead of worrying about room blocks, he's thinking about where the tents will go. Instead of fretting about food-and-beverage minimums, he's busy making sure that there are enough portable showers and toilets. No, Vernon Byrd is not your typic...
Carina Bauer Promoted to CEO, IMEX Group
Dec 07, 2009
Carina Bauer, formerly marketing and operations director for IMEX Frankfurt, has been promoted to CEO, IMEX Group, based in East Sussex, U.K. “It’s a recognition of the fact that I and other members of the team are working across both shows now...
Convention Industry Council's 2010 Hall of Leaders Gala
Dec 02, 2009
The 16th Hall of Leaders Gala, the Convention Industry Council’s celebration of the meetings industry’s most influential people, will take place on Monday, January 11, at the Fairmont Dallas, during the annual meeting of the Professional...
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