WomenInTravel (WINiT), a nonprofit organization driving change and providing support for the career development, visibility, and mobility of women in the travel, meeting, event, and exhibition industries, holds its 2016 Annual Summit November 12...
While conference organizers often welcome social media interaction at their events, making it easy for participants to snap, tweet, and share by providing hashtags and photo opps, some meetings need to keep what’s shared—confidential corporate in...
Meeting venues are always coming up with new ways to energize your attendees, help them bond with each other, or boost their meeting productivity. We’ve collected some recent ideas that have crossed our desk that could inspire your next...
A new meeting planner association designed to facilitate networking and growing business relationships for the lesbian, gay, and bi/transgender meeting professionals community recently came online. The Philadelphia-based organization, called the ...
Rod Abraham, newly named SPIN executive director
Veteran industry leader and consultant Rod Abraham will take over as executive director of the Senior Planners Industry Network, a 3,000-plus-member organization founded in 2008 to serve the nee...
I just ran across an article on TechConnect from IDG about the dangerous cost of “free” Wi-Fi, which outlines how security company Avast set up some free Wi-Fi hotspots at the Republican National Convention held at the Quicken Loans Arena in Clev...
Ninety-eight percent of people who go to events say they create social or digital content at the show—mostly photos, though social media posts and videos are also popular. And 100 percent of those folks say they share that content on social and o...
