The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is installing a full-building, real-time location services system to provide turn-by-turn navigation inside the BCEC, helping visitors find meeting rooms, exhibit halls, exhibit booths, or whatever...
Survey results, registration, and financial reports are all good lagging indicators for conference improvement. In today’s fast-paced world, we need to focus more on leading indicators that impact those results. Savvy conference organizers...
Yes, this is another article about Millennials, planning meetings for Millennials, understanding Millennials, citing statistics about Millennials. But here’s the blinding flash of the obvious we had at MeetingsNet: Innovations at meetings, the...
Last October, the Federal Communications Commission fined Marriott International $600,000 for intentionally jamming some of its customers’ Wi-Fi connections in the meeting space at Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville. Marr...
I frequently write about the limited adoption of strategic meetings management programs by organizations that are leaving themselves highly exposed from regulatory, duty-of-care, and fiduciary perspectives. Companies in the highly regulated pharm...
Advocacy. It’s a term we throw around in conversation, but how many of you really know the value and extent of it? Recent data from CEIR, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, notes that in 2014 the exhibitions and events industry contribu...
The economy may be looking up these days, but most planners still are still looking for ways to save costs while actually providing a better return on their attendees’ investment in the meeting. During a recent MeetingsNet webinar, Joanne...
Take a fascinating look back at our most-visited stories from 2014. Our signature CMI 25 and Changemaker lists made the cut, but so did stories offering meeting planning best practices and galleries from top meeting planning events. Happy 2015...
