It seems as if there's one in every crowd. Even at RCMA's 29th Annual Conference and Exposition in Milwaukee, held January 29-February 2, which is known throughout the country for its warmth and friendliness, there was one gentleman whom no one...

The other day I was in the checkout lane at the grocery store, doing my usual last-minute shopping for that night's dinner. Without glancing up, the cashier mumbled, “Hi-how-are-you?” as she bleeped a package of pasta over the scanner. I answered...

´Tsnn.com, which offers a global database of exhibitions and related services, has acquired the portal assets of TSCentral.com, its largest competitor. The tsnn.com database will absorb TSCentralÍs database of shows, users, and distribution...

It's a good time to take a look at the proposed new rules on corporate sponsorship that the Internal Revenue Service expects to finalize soon. The IRS proposal focuses on the nature of the benefits received by a sponsor in return for its payment...

Four world-class resorts, a golf club, and the city of Indian Wells, Calif., have joined forces to offer a campus-style environment for large meetings. The group includes Hyatt Grand Champions Resort, Indian Wells Resort Hotel, Miramonte Resort...

When laptops first appeared, computer manufacturers called them "freedom machines" and ran ads showing smiling users at the beach...

They say that love is blind (whoever "they" are), and they aren't that far off. When smitten, we tend to, if not forget about most everything else, at least relegate it to a lower rung on the "importance in life" scale. In the past few years most...

Pamela A. Troop, director of meetings operations for the American Society of Association Executives, is working with a clean slate, so to speak. She began with ASAE in September 2000, right after ASAE's annual meeting in Orlando. And all four...

A Full Plate at CIC Forum The Convention Industry Council chose to tackle technology and human resources as the meeting industry's top issues at its second Industry Forum. The first, held two year's ago in New York City, attracted a higher number...

If you've been following the technology news lately you're probably familiar with Napster and the uproar it has created in the music industry. But what is sometimes overlooked is the mini-revolution in computing that the Napster model represents...