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For years now, planners and hoteliers have been working out how to provide and pay for the ever-increasing bandwidth consumed by meeting attendees. With experience and knowledge building on both sides, things are getting a little easier. Here is...

Over the past 10 years, our company has done quite a bit of consulting with leading event technology providers. For consulting clients who host conferences and trade shows, we often advise them on their event technology choices and help them short...

Full disclosure: I am not an emoji person. When I get a text that’s all         I just don’t get what they add to the message. Sometimes I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what exactly the person meant by that unicorn/t...

One of Alissa's favorite quotesPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Grass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen talks with Alissa Hurley. Alissa has more than 20 years of experience in corporate events and ma...

You know your meeting’s attendees. You even love them—well OK, some of them. But are you unintentionally doing them a disservice? As a frequent meeting-goer, here are some traps I see planners fall into all too often. But they don't have to! 1...

The planners and hospitality partners who gather at Financial & Insurance Conference Planners events could hardly be a more congenial group. Both sides are experienced and professional, they’re focused on the long term, they enjoy...

Big data is big news for most industries these days—even, or perhaps especially, for meeting professionals. You can use the data you generate to measure how well your event is performing against your organization’s goals and objectives, and to he...

Expert advice on what metrics you should be tracking to gauge your meeting's success, and tips on how to get it done (relatively) painlessly.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Sam's favorite quoteGrass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen talks with Samuel J. Smith, who runs an audience engagement company called Interactive Meeting Technolo...